Friday, 2 August 2024
Basic income, again
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This week's column for the Stuff papers covered the excellent new US work testing the effects of a UBI. From November 2020, 3000 low-i...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
RNZ remains on-form
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There are a few basic bits of reality that I'd hope we could agree on. Minister Costello has set a lower excise rate for heated tobacco ...
Another pitch by the pharmacy guild
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Recall that Chemist Warehouse found a structure that let them operate in New Zealand despite pharmacy guild regulations that had seemed aime...
Friday, 26 July 2024
Interchange fees
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A few years ago, MBIE ran an inquiry into credit card interchange fees. Most of the analysis seemed predicated on an assumption that retaile...
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Fun antitrust application
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David Harvey reports that AI scraping could wind up being part of the revised NZ Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. Having defined what an...
Monday, 22 July 2024
Afternoon roundup
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The closing of the browser tabs: The Commerce Commission blocks NZ DJ software company Serato from selling out to Japanese DJ product com...
Saturday, 20 July 2024
Right to Repair
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The Green Party has a Member's Bill up arguing for a consumer right of repair; Auckland University's Alex Sims has written a few co...
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