Month: April 2015

Few things about this year’s British general elections are predictable. The one exception is that governing Britain will not be any easier after May 7.

The best we can do about Auckland’s housing shortage apart from building more houses is to establish a rational expectation that houses will be built in the future.

A German departure from the euro would have some highly beneficial effects on the remaining eurozone members. But of course it will not happen.

Is parity between the Kiwi and the Aussie dollars a reason to celebrate or a to be worried? And shouldn’t we just take the opportunity to reflect on how we got there?

Our dangerous spreadsheet culture, new Greek demands, things too small to regulate and advice on putting spin on your life: That was the week that was.

Ben Bernanke’s analysis of Germany’s exports problem is correct but it yields the wrong conclusions.

This week, the Asia New Zealand Foundation released its annual survey of New Zealanders’ Perceptions of Asia and Asian Peoples. In some ways, its results are entirely unsurprising as a large majority of New Zealanders acknowledge the growing importance of Asia. How could anyone with only a cursory knowledge of economic realities disagree?

The euro crisis has caused considerable economic and financial damage already. We can now see some of the political and security implications of a weakened Europe.