The worthies on the closing of the browser tabs:
- A database of global film subsidies. Remember that the only winning move is not to play.
- "Somewhat perversely, some local councils and contractors are putting workers back on the shovel, because that way they can get Ministry of Social Development funding to train up six workers – whereas using a diesel excavator would train only one person."
- The latest Neumark metastudy on minimum wages.
- Can't kill a zombie stat. RNZ repeats the dodgy BERL alcohol cost number. So does Stuff. Remember: the $7.8b number is just the old dodgy number from over a decade ago, multiplied by GDP growth over the period. That's it. It starts with a dodgy number, then inflates it using a dodgy method that requires that alcohol cost be a constant fraction of GDP. Me on this in the Dom, a couple years ago.
- Looks like there are going to be delays to any NZ sanctions regime on Russian-held assets. I really don't know why we have an Overseas Investment Office if they can't even figure out how to do this.
- Lots of NZ kids don't really know how to write or do math.
- Government is subsidising new boilers for some greenhouses and food processors. There is absolutely no need to do this. Process heat is in the ETS.
