Thursday 28 March 2024
Things I'd have hoped we could all agree on
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This week's Budget Policy Statement was disappointing. There are a few things I'd have thought we could all have agreed on. They s...
Wednesday 27 March 2024
The alcohol levy review - an ongoing OIA saga
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I keep a bit of a watching brief on the old BERL social cost of alcohol figure. It turns up in weird places. As aide memoire, BERL produced...
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Tuesday 26 March 2024
Public service cuts and context
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Richard Harmon's Politik newsletter provides a bit of the context that ought to have been showing up in other media reports on potentia...
Barriers to Banking
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I like the new Commerce Commission draft market study into retail banking . Instead of spending a pile of time trying to estimate whether th...
Friday 8 March 2024
Afternoon roundup
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The afternoon's worthies: How universities killed the academic . Great piece. NZ Drug Foundation's report on drug use in 2022/23 . ...
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Even Lowerer Hutt
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One annoying thing about writing a Saturday column for the Stuff papers is never knowing whether a piece will show up in print. I'd thou...
Friday 1 March 2024
The Uncompetitive Urban Land Markets Theory of Everything
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The Housing Theory of Everything has one of those wonderful self-explanatory titles. A good title matters. The recent and thorough essay ex...
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