The worthies, on the closing of the browser tabs
- I still have great difficulty understanding why it is worse to draw up to 5000 cubic meters of water per day from an aquifer to put into bottles for people to drink than it is to run the same amount of water through cows.
- We have a desperate shortage of nurses. Meanwhile, the Nursing Council is blocking a nursing school from training new nurses. It's just nuts that ComCom is likely going to waste its next market study on a populist beat-up on bank mortgage interest rates. The opportunity cost is high.
- Lianne Dalziel on the review into the Auckland cyclone response. Good thoughtful piece from someone who's been there [should ungate tomorrow by removing the /pro from the URL].
- Transpower's increased the expected amount of solar generation coming onto the grid by 2030. In 2020, they expected about 1 GW by 2030. Now they expect over 7 GW. Wow.
- Ice cream is associated with lower risk of diabetes. Unsurprisingly, the NZ public health people aren't having a bar of it - their latest recommendations on diabetes stick to the ban-and-tax stuff. Why not make ice cream part of school lunches?
- Good summary from Pattrick Smellie on the work that Robin Oliver commissioned from Sapere looking at effective tax rates (average and marginal) across different income bands and family situations. I had a chat with Robin about that work yesterday.
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