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Blog Archive

• 2021
  • April
    • When Common Sense Fails
  • March
    • The Glass-Ceiling Index - More cracks appear
    • Custom Indexing
    • Feynman’s Tricks of the Trade
  • February
    • Untangling Risk, Uncertainty, and Ignorance
  • January
    • Decision Making - in the words of Barack Obama
    • After a Bad Year for Freedom, Try Liberalism
    • This......
• 2020
  • March
    • Avoiding Death by Virus
    • The Girl Who Asked Questions - An Obituary
    • Valuing a CEO
  • February
    • We don’t have money to burn on green mania
    • Words of Wisdom from Thomas Sowell
    • Does This Investment Make Me Look Good?
    • Potentially Useful Governance
• 2019
  • December
    • 10 Reasons it was the best decade ever
    • Campus Cancel Culture
  • November
    • Who's Responsible for High House Prices in NZ
    • Jazz Hands
    • Climate Change Despair
  • October
    • Thomas Sowell - always to the point
  • September
    • On Climate Change, Humanity is not Evil
    • A Climate of Burning Money
    • A bit of a rough red
  • July
    • A quote from Thomas Sowell
    • The Many Windows on Reality
    • Strong Governance = punching above your weight
  • June
    • Road Death Stats
    • Sowell Says
  • May
    • Unusual US Equities Premium ? Or is it in NZ ?
  • April
    • Intoxicated and Enchanted by Words
  • February
    • Why Fair Seems Seductive
    • Catastrophising is irresponsible.....
  • January
    • Multitasking in Slow Motion - Tim Harford
    • The Global Risks Report 2019 - 14th edition
    • Longer Term Equities for 2019... top 10 by one view
• 2018
  • November
    • Thomas Sowell - a handful of quotes
  • October
    • Costs of banning plastic bags - Hospital beds or turtles
    • The Sound of NO hands clapping... the idiocy of intolerance as man bites dog
  • September
    • Retirement Drama Queens – Misleading in Drag
  • August
    • Perverse Incentives
    • Huge changes on both sides
    • Spring is cooking - and the smell is lifting my spirits
  • July
    • Obesity or scaremongering
    • Politics - the ignorant resource allocator
  • June
    • Remember Y2K
    • Evolution can be misunderstood
  • May
    • Speaking of Poverty
    • Economics and the Minimum Wage
    • Greetings………. Because:
    • The Sky is Not Falling
  • April
    • Bjorn Lomborg - on new Danish EPA Analysis
  • February
    • Enlightenment Now
    • We Pray That Health Professionals Know More About Health Than They Do About Taxation
  • January
    • Stocks weren’t made for social climbing
    • Recent changes in the NZ CPI Basket
• 2017
  • October
    • The Nudge Effect
  • August
    • Election Risk
  • July
    • Blockchain the Transformer
  • May
    • The Paris Treaty on Climate Change
    • Cohen on Liberalism and Free Speech
  • April
    • Neo wowsers and Regulation
  • February
    • Foreign Drivers and Driver Testing
  • January
    • Why free trade is good and hence the irrationality of protectionism
    • 2.3 per cent of all NZ taxpayers contribute 21.4 per cent of all the personal income tax collected
    • One new regulation means one out the door
    • Not nearly as unequal as you thought
• 2016
  • September
    • A label for rich people wanting to feel good
  • July
    • A housing fundamental... too hard basket - again
  • May
    • San Francisco's attraction comes at a price.... so does Auckland's
    • DAO - next step in applying the blockchain
  • February
    • Digging out the meaning of sovereignty
• 2015
  • December
    • Short skirts and tall buildings
    • Dangers of sheer ignorance….
  • October
    • Advice for journos: Read “Stats Done Wrong” …
    • Risk flows offshore too….
  • August
    • Regulatory design–at least get that roughly right
    • The “left”…. more caring than thou… no one has a monopoly on compassion
  • July
    • Difficult “compassionate” numbers from Greece
    • Seriously Disruptive–Get Your Head Around Blockchains
    • Harsh Reality in Greece
    • “Oscar” is not another term for “MD”
    • Brother can you spare a lazy $29 billion
  • June
    • Business jargon pomposity update….
  • May
    • A couple of lessons from the UK election
    • Why “learning” to develop a great business might be a complete waste of time… seriously
  • April
    • Confusing Inequality of Income with Inequality of Lifestyle
  • March
    • Reporting brilliance
    • Regulatory brilliance… again
  • February
    • How to drive up the cost of borrowing for the poverty stricken
  • January
    • Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?
    • Exploring
    • They crossed the diamond with the pearl…
    • The eternal struggle for meaning in a harsh world…
• 2014
  • December
    • Striking a blow for statistics…
    • Why being sucked in by “scientific consensus fads” is deadly…
    • Unhealthy ignorance and healthy foods
    • More “F word” problems…
  • November
    • Free(er) trade in India–quote of the week
    • Latest Stats NZ jobs and wages
  • October
    • Losses Don't Save Lives
    • Hardly a lesson learned… a $1m plus education fail
    • Faulty Logic…
  • September
    • Classic from the textbook–Election 2014
    • The most boring bankrupt economic argument–“we export raw logs when we could be adding value and making jobs”
    • Measured views of minimum wages
    • The Rough Guide to Voting on Policies
    • Investment–Harmless Superstition NOT
  • August
    • So useless we can’t even “become unequal” ??
    • Some science about what is fashionable in clothing
    • Wanting the story to be true… inequality
  • July
    • A non result news filler piece of rubbish
    • The medical fraternity–ignorant bleating
    • The last six months… book list
  • June
    • What the Lucan Case can Teach us about Rule Making
    • Do not confuse attitude with randomness…
  • May
    • Impact of Regulation
    • Not so fast champ–one single doesn’t make an album even in rock econ
    • Impounding–a badly misunderstood concept
    • What engineers think of themselves…. and what the rest of us think
    • Some stats on being bumped off–Dicing with Death
  • April
    • No Free Parking Sorry
    • “No Parking”–Don't Trade Forex with David
    • Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?
    • Farm Management not Urban Hysteria is the answer
    • What a little thinking shows….
    • Get out of my pantry you interfering agenda toting neo wowser
  • March
    • The F word
    • People with learning difficulties–still failing trade 101
    • Blowing hot and cold–climate change
    • Local Govt subsidises its own incompetence
  • February
    • Tigers, the minimum wage and like rip offs
    • The value of successful succession
    • Let even a little sun shine in…
    • Confused logic –> unjustified advice
    • Of electricity and apples
  • January
    • Nudged into poor returns
    • Has your broker always been pushy?
    • Without a Net – it’s safer
    • Fonterra–again!
    • The ethics of job prospect denial
    • The Dogonomy and Dogonomics
• 2013
  • December
    • New Year 2014–Raison d’etre
    • The fruits of…. ???
    • Romantic nonsense about family silver is costly to the poor
    • How not to allocate scarce resource?
    • Personal Liability… Len
    • Cliff Asness on Data Mining
  • November
    • The utterly idiotic as a guaranteed policy success
    • Energetically Russ ty
    • Dangers of “Talk Back Research”
    • The melting of logic
    • A spot of insurance reality might assist....
    • What Politics is Always About
  • October
    • 12% of us prop up 76% of all spending.....
    • Economics Nobels–for tangible contributions
    • Mr A Little: Knows how to do better but refuses
    • Finally some data showing that, indeed, things ain’t what they used to be……
    • No You’re Not Worth it – Nor You Mr Cunliffe
  • September
    • The Sheer Brilliance of Central Bank Intervention….
    • Don’t try to diversify me…. read some history
    • Cup Full?
    • Your Kidman(ing) me
    • You Don’t Say
  • August
    • Normanomics and Mighty River–Mightily wrong
    • Minimum Wages
    • Keep your “nudges” to yourself thank you….