More bits as I clear through the tabs.  Kevin Rudd's view on south Pacific security. 20,000 hard refusals on the 2023 census, up from 60...

The afternoon's worthies, as I close the tabs from one of the many open browsers.... Joel MacManus tracks down the management-book origi...

Chris Parker at Treasury sometimes quips that there are no silver bullets for solving housing in NZ, only pieces of silver buckshot. Basical...

My column in Newsroom this week makes a few guesses about where NZ local water policy may be headed .  Labour forced the amalgamation of wat...

Eight browser windows each full of tabs. Something's gotta give. Excellent quips from our Treasury Secretary in response to RBNZ pleadin...

The tabs. There are too many. Dan Brunskill asks 20 economists how they'd define recession . A bunch of us pointed to how NBER does thin...

Another closing of the tabs: " This is troubling because the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidy money to...

The morning's worthies: iPredict's PredictIt gets another stay of execution Kainga Ora has been making great progress in streamlinin...

Had a chat with RNZ's Wallace Chapman and The Panel this afternoon on the ACT Party's proposal for reform to how roads get built and...

Last week, we put out a short(ish) research note on better ways of funding and financing infrastructure . Look back at NZ's history. It...

The tabs do pile up. A few days out at the NZAE meetings, a couple days leave, and then digging out from under the pile... If the government...

The afternoon's worthies: If you want to know why rail in NZ is all messed up, look at how the thing's structured . Egads.  New Y...

The tabs... Australia considering changes in governance at the Reserve Bank , including setting a Monetary Policy Committee. Hope that they ...

A closing of some of the browser tabs: Eli Dourado on NEPA - America's equivalent to the RMA . Superb seeming primer on how it all works...

The New York Times explains the dysfunction of infrastructure consenting and delivery in California .  The state was warned repeatedly that ...

The government's proposed Three Waters reforms amount to shifting a mountain of financial risk onto central government's balance she...

This really doesn't seem like a good idea. Central Government provided sweeteners for local councils to encourage them to participate in...

The morning's worthies, on the closing of the tabs: Simon Bridges on an odd proposal to stop counting travel time savings when running C...

The morning's worthies: Treasury are the heroes in this story , where Daalder paints them as villains. Treasury tried to stop the dumbes...

Will be up at Select Committee tomorrow, along with Nick Clark, to talk about three waters reforms. The Initiative is a member of the Local ...