So time to clear them. The worthies:
- The ag sector's plan for dealing with ag emission pricing was released yesterday. I'm still thinking through this one. It is definitely not a first-best. Trying to figure out whether it's a second-best or a fifth-best. Executive Summary here, full report here. Stuff covers it here and here, and here with very minor comment from me. And here's BusinessDesk.
- Prohibitionists get mad that Emerson's Brewery donated to a breast cancer research fund. I'm pleasantly surprised that there's a cancer charity that cares more about cancer than about anti-alcohol activism.
- Labour's proposals around supermarkets are populist nonsense. I worry that they're a foreshadowing of what's coming down the track for more sectors. Labour's falling in the polls, the next year will bring some horrible combination of high inflation and higher unemployment, and an election's due for 2023. Populist stuff like this will be tempting.
- If water takes were under a cap-and-trade regime, this sort of thing would be better policed.
- A Grand Inquisitor has been appointed who seems likely to be very diligent.
- America's welfare system has some worse EMTR cliffs than New Zealand's.
- The Ministry of Health continues to be a dangerous clown-show.
- Winnipeg has a new slogan: 'It's made from what's real.' Bartley Kives ahs a thread of alternatives...
- Set density restrictions on bars and outlets, create rents for incumbents. Tullock's Trap.
- The Commerce Commission has published submissions on regulatory barriers to entry in key building supplies. The Affordable Building Coalition's submission is very good.
- Maybe it would be a good idea to make it easier for foreign-trained GPs to practice in New Zealand? Maybe?
- There's maybe one degree of separation between everyone in New Zealand but come on.
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