I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.
We had fun anyway.
But the browser tabs... a week's worth of emails, and stuff saved up... egads.
Some worthies as I try to clear six different Chrome instances...
- Wikipedians don't like research on IQ. They're even slowly memory-holing the Flynn Effect.
- Time to end the Canadian Dairy Cartel
- Neat evil DMCA hack: create a fake-dated earlier version of content you don't like, then claim the original is a copy.
- DevPolicyBlog on reducing remittance costs in the Pacific. I hadn't known that getting money from Oz/NZ to the Islands has some of the highest remittance costs in the world. But it makes sense: NZ is overly enthusiastic about AML, and that's a fixed cost in a small place.
- John McDermott on the case for another Saturday Night Special. When credibility is lost, getting inflation back under control is costly. The RBNZ forgot its job, and we will all bear a cost.
- Jem Traylen tries to figure out why the government won't fast-track residence for migrant nurses. There are no good answers.
- The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved Moderna's Covid vax for under-5s. Unclear that Medsafe has even started looking at it.
- The McGuinness Institute maintains an archive of Government Department Strategies. There are 221 operational GDS and 327 archived ones. I did not know there were so many.
- Frank Newman on a few problems in the government's Three Waters financial modelling. Oh - and the IT systems alone could cost half a billion.
- I wonder how much income protection insurance premiums are going to go up because of Long Covid risks. Would be fun if cautious mask-wearers could get a discount...
- Survey evidence of misperceptions could just be miseducated guesses. But wouldn't that predict unbiased means?
- The flu-normal sucks.
- New Zealand's defamation law is even worse than I'd thought. Its reach extends to America.
- Prof Beaglehole on Smokefree 2025.
- Three cheers for the three Christchurch councilors who voted against the stadium.
- Infometrics warns inflation expectations look unanchored.
- Cameron Bagrie warns of a lack of expertise on the RBNZ Board. I remember Suzanne Sniveley telling us at the NZAE meetings that all is fine.
- This is just lovely. How the world's worst golfer kept getting to play at big golf tournaments. Great fun story.
- Pandemic-related losses in education. New Zealand did manage to get through the early period with some of the shortest periods of school closure in the developed world. But we're still showing shocking results on literacy and numeracy - though tough to tell whether it's worse than pre-Covid.
- Russ Roberts' chat with Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan was great while we were on our drive back from Taupo. Just such an enormous amount of core data work in that project on immigration and outcomes. Here's Noah Smith with Boustan.
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