Matt Nolan • Jun 30, 2015 •
I am not blogging at the moment – and I’m incredibly sorry about that. I won’t really be back until I can commit to being back properly – which won’t be until I’ve completed a lot of modeling work related to income inequality in New Zealand. I am not back today to talk about any […] … Read More
William Taylor • May 13, 2015 •
I’m pretty excited about the Tesla Powerwall, the home battery that was announced recently. People mostly think about home batteries as being important for solar. For residential solar, most of your generation is during the day when you aren’t home, so it gets sold back into the grid and therefore relies on the whatever the […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Apr 04, 2015 •
I see that some Australian TV show host said that New Zealand has the “dole bludger army” for support in the cricket. Now something about intimate relationships with sheep or cows, or something about little country syndrome, or something about Lord of the Rings, would have been fine – banter is acceptable. But his statement […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Sep 14, 2014 •
After reading both the Stuff article and the initial article on Gareth Morgan’s blog and the follow up, I am convinced both Gareth and Geoff Simmons (GG) have inadvertently become extreme social constructivists – but may not realise it yet. Now I hate it when people just whip out rhetoric like “social constructivist” and don’t explain […] … Read More
Infometrics • Sep 09, 2014 •
The Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) has recently released an array of regionally-tailored media releases in conjunction with its Tourism 2014 Election Manifesto. Although we welcome healthy debate on economic issues in regional New Zealand, we are dubious of the methodology used to estimate regional tourism employment and advise extreme caution beforeutilising any of […] … Read More
William Taylor • Aug 19, 2014 •
Very exciting news last week that New Zealand’s first two equity crowd funding platforms have been licensed. See PledgeMe’s (henceforth PM) blog announcement here and Snowball Effect’s (henceforth SE) FB announcement here and the FMA’s announcement here. Exactly what role crowd funded equity will play in NZ is going to be very interesting to watch: […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Jul 16, 2014 •
Over at Dim Post I see Danyl is discussing the latest (2014) Household Income Report and Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century. Excellent – there are lots of important and interesting issues to discussing look at these sources. However, in this instance the data he is using and his interpretation is sadly a bit […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Jun 10, 2014 •
I see that leading Stuff today is an article on New Zealand’s “obesity epidemic”, and how we must changes some things because we are “killing ourselves”. The policy suggestions are: In a report published today, the association calls for drastic cures for the bulge, including taxing or minimum prices for sugary drinks, restricting food advertising […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Jun 09, 2014 •
So Interest.co.nz allowed me to pop up another one of these “Top 10″ links things – where I blatantly use more than ten links to make some arbitrary point about some arbitrary subject. This time, global warming – go over and give it a look. However, there are a few links that I missed. An […] … Read More
Matt Nolan • Jun 06, 2014 •
I see that Patrick Nolan has an article in Public Finance talking about UK and New Zealand productivity. Go read it, but come back here to comment as they don’t seem to have a comment system. As we are a NZ audience, I’ll quote this bit: While New Zealand faces different challenges, its experience can throw light […] … Read More