The worthies from the tabs:
- Kate MacNamara tracks down all the Covid funds that wound up diverted into the road use subsidy. $1.3b and counting.
- A reminder that it can be easiest to innovate by leaving academia.
- Messy claims that the UK sugar tax reduced obesity. Looks like green jellybeans.
- People keep telling me cancel culture isn't real. And yet I keep seeing stories like this.
- Great to see that the sponsored refugee regime has been working out. Genuine good news. Let's hope it expands.
- Treasury's hiring a Director, Economic Systems, meant to have a significant leadership role in macro and growth. Nothing in the job requires an economics degree. I hope that properly qualified economists do apply, and that good applications drive out bad.
- Men on Tinder are not intimidated by highly educated women.
- Markups and inflation. How markups move can tell you whether you're dealing with a supply-side or demand-side issue. Price Theory is great.
- Bill English's 2005 Chapman Lecture. Some issues are timeless.
- Helen Dale on the Return of the Pagans.
- Tap Yellowstone for basically limitless power. But it would cost on the order of $3.5 trillion to build. Not huge when compared to overall annual energy spend in the US, depending on marginal cost of running the thing and whether it could generate low-cost hydrogen for vehicle fleets. But it is a very big number.
- I would love to know how much Council time and effort went into this mess. A developer wanted to turn a ruin of a former dairy into housing. Council didn't want her to. They eventually relented and let her build, on condition that the houses have wooden window frames. What incredible value Council added here. Kudos. They should all be very proud. Especially the resource consent team leader who argued that the developer should have first tried putting up a fish and chip shop or a laundromat.
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