Newspaper political bias reflects readership, rather than the bias of owners
12 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, politics - USA
.@PhilTwyford @JulieAnneGenter finest hour on housing affordability
10 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land use planning, zoning
Will @jacindaardern @nzlabour never lie about poverty and inequality trends?
06 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
Labour cannot claim that incomes are falling if since the end of the recession in the early 1990s, there has been rapid income growth including for Maori and Pacifika, at least 50%.
Source: Bryan Perry, Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2016. Ministry of Social Development (2017).
Income equality has been stable for several decades and consumption inequality is declining. Another area where Labour is unable to lie from now on.
Child poverty has been fairly stable for 20 years so to say it is getting worse and worse is a lie.
Real wages started growing again after the passage of the Employment Contract Act in 1993 as documented by impeccable left sources. Another area where Labour must not lie.
Our take on the latest Household Incomes in NZ report closertogether.org.nz/no-quick-escap… @MaxRashbrooke #inequality #poverty http://t.co/c1L9QHs3fi—
Closer Together (@CloserTogether) July 09, 2014
Of course, the increase in real wages and real household incomes is larger than in the measured statistics because of their well-known bias measuring new goods and better quality goods.
Goes about saying that the OECD estimates New Zealand to have the smallest gender wage gap of any of its members.
There is a hole in @NZLabour’s fiscal plan
06 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2017 New Zealand election
Why fact-checking can’t stop Trump’s lies
31 Aug 2017 3 Comments
in politics - USA Tags: political psychology
I don’t think the @NZGreens have thought light rail through
28 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: 2017 New Zealand election, expressive voting, light rail
So @top_nz says “no evidence” incarceration reduces crime?
26 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2017 New Zealand election, crime and punishment
Consensus decision making in @nzgreens, no opposition research, no media plan
20 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2017 New Zealand election
So @top_nz wants the European approach to crime and punishment! Fewer prisoners, more violent crime
18 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Is ethical investing a dud? @NZSuperFund @JordNZ @EricCrampton @GreenpeaceNZ
17 Aug 2017 1 Comment
in defence economics, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand
Imagine how much more would be available for funding old age pensioners, schools, hospitals and kidney machines if you have a passively invested portfolio rather than an ethically invested portfolio. Virtue signalling is not free. Ethical investing significantly underperforms the market even if done by the best of the passive investing funds such as Vanguard.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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