Saturday 5 October 2024
Rebuilding one bit of state capacity
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New Zealand's immigration bureaucracy isn't in the best of shape. So it's interesting to read this piece from the Niskanen Cen...
Friday 4 October 2024
What planet are they on?
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New Zealand's newspaper chiefs' views on how the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill works is somewhat at odds with the text of the Bi...
Saturday 14 September 2024
Loss aversion or mistakes?
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Super-neat paper coming out in the AER by Ryan Oprea: Decisions under risk are decisions under complexity. The abstract: We provide evidenc...
Friday 13 September 2024
Monkeypox and Medsafe
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In a sane world, medicines and vaccines already approved by trustworthy overseas regulators would automatically be able to be used in New Ze...
Thursday 12 September 2024
Levine on arbitrage
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I should have signed up for Matt Levine's newsletter ages ago; finally did so. His bit on the Spotify arbitrage play was magnificent. ...
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Please legalise new supermarkets
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Jaw-dropping bit from the Grocery Regulator, in interview at Interest.co.nz: “What we've been told by these players is when they come an...
Tuesday 10 September 2024
Let's ban Mazda Demios and put an end to ram-raids
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The post title is obviously stupid, right? Mazda Demios are pretty common in ram-raids but: Ram raids have started coming down off their pea...
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