Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Retail innovation
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New Zealand retail's problems are deeper than a 15% GST-at-the-border levy. Here's what Amazon is doing. Marvel at the innovation. ...
Monday, 29 May 2017
Health CPI
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So Labour and National are scrapping over whether National's increased or decreased the health budget. There's no question that heal...
A few notes on the budget
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Your take on last week's budget should depend on whether you have your economist glasses on, your politics glasses on, or your "eco...
Saturday, 27 May 2017
A better case for tipping
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If New Zealand were to move towards a tipping norm, here's an entrepreneurial idea. Set up a restaurant. The wait staff are all volunt...
Friday, 26 May 2017
Ending appeasement
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Blackland's produced the best summary of the demise of the Wellington 7s that I've yet seen . Bottom line: the only outcome that wou...
Product labelling
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All we wanted was truth in labelling, backed by tough enforceable regulatory standards, right? Sounds good? Here's where that path go...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
New EMTRs!
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We have the new Effective Marginal Tax Schedules. Really these things should be published along with the budget documents. The excellent P...
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