The Institute for Family Studies puts up a pro-natal proposal that I'd not seen before. Most of the literature I've seen on baby bon...

The tabs did accumulate. A couple of worthies.  There will be no bailouts of local councils that neglected their pipes. Good.  Me, over in N...

My column in the weekend Dom went through Canada's messes in trying to make Google and Facebook subsidise Canadian newspapers.  The C...

The worthies, on a long-overdue closing of the browser tabs: Colby Cosh explains to Canadians something Kiwis have known for some time: the...

A few spots you may have caught me recently... Olivia Wannan asked me about some of the carbon spend in the most recent budget. It's ju...

I cannot count the tabs. A pruning: Danyl Mclauchlan on the depressing kludgeocratic budget. I still don't like that they're subsidi...

We have too many tabs open here at the Crampton Discount Browser Tab Warehouse, and we have to liquidate stock immediately. All the links yo...

It is possibly possible to grow bananas in New Zealand. In greenhouses. At great expense.  Suppose that New Zealand had no way of importing ...

Richard Harmon over at Politik (via his daily newsletter) reports that the government put $30 million into Auckland Film Studio upgrades vi...

The wage subsidy scheme in 2020 made a lot of sense. It kept workers attached to firms through lockdown, so everything could restart quickly...

The video game industry wants subsidies so they can compete for CGI workers with the subsidised film industry, and to keep up with the subsi...

The worthies on the closing of the browser tabs: A database of global film subsidies . Remember that the only winning move is not to play.  ...

I love this way of framing things. When you set a pile of regulations that make supply highly inelastic, and then deal with resulting voter ...

I don't like New Zealand's film subsidy regime and generally view it to be a good thing when an international film company chooses s...

It's pretty standard drill in intermediate micro to work through some tax incidence questions.  The general point is to remind students ...

Blogging has been light. These are the bits I've missed telling you about. Matt Burgess, Oliver Hartwich, Bryce Wilkinson and I had a sh...

I'm a bit skeptical about campaign finance restrictions in general. Money probably does less to buy votes than is generally expected, es...

The government's paid $50m to help shore up newsmedia companies' finances during Covid . But the overall media funding problem is...

TVNZ sought comment from the PM on critiques of the film subsidy regime .  I'd had a chat with Breakfast TV on Monday morning on th...

So.  The New Zealand government, committed to wellbeing, believing that tax is love, wanting to ensure that every loving tax dollar spent...