Blogging has been light. These are the bits I've missed telling you about.
- Matt Burgess, Oliver Hartwich, Bryce Wilkinson and I had a short podcast on the government's proposed feebate scheme. It's an incoherent mess given that it's running up against an ETS with a binding cap.
- I had a chat with RNZ's The Panel on congestion charging on Friday. I'd had a column in the Dom Post on it a bit earlier.
- My column at Newsroom last week went through the changes coming for local councils when water utilities get stripped from them and amalgamated into new entities.
- My column in our Insights newsletter looked at the government's sclerotic approach to border management. Better, safer, and even cheaper testing options for border workers are available, and they aren't being used.
- I had a chat with Newshub about America's Cup funding, and how the government should politely wish Team New Zealand all the best in its coming race, wherever in the world that might well wind up being.
- And I had a chat with Josh Gans about the Covid response and some of the worrying numbers on risks with border openings.
- Motu had a panel session on some minimum wage work by Dean Hyslop and Dave Maré; Bill Rosenberg and I were discussants. Their paper is here. I expect I'll be referring to it often.
Self-recommending. Meaning, I'm in them, and I'm recommending them. Likely not in the better way that Tyler Cowen uses the term.
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