The fiscal stimulus
MacDoctor has an excellent response to the analysis done on Pundit over the $9 billion fiscal stimulus. Tim Watkin on Pundit says most of the stimulus is “old money” not new. MacDoctor reponds: Tim...
View ArticleSize of Fiscal Stimulus
This OECD chart shows that NZ’s fiscal stimulus is in fact the 6th largest in the developed world, as a percentage of GDP. Hat Tip: The Visible Hand in Economics Tags: fiscal stimulus, OECD
View ArticleNZIER on fiscal stimulus
NZIER have done a very interesting report on the balancing act between jobs and debt. The fiscal stimulus of almost $10b over four years will result in an extra 10,000 jobs in the short run, but it...
View ArticleThe Greens’ New Deal
On Friday the Greens launched their so called Green New Deal, with a price tag of $3.3 billion over three years. It has five main elements: Energy efficiency measures such as home insulations, school...
View ArticleStimulus Plan
Grant Robertson blogs: Barack Obama is facing all kinds of issues in the US at the moment- healthcare reform, whether to put more troops into Afghanistan, climate change, you name it. All the while, he...
View ArticleShould we emulate Brazil
Clare Curran tweeted: NZ Govt take note “@rnz_news: Stimulus package announced by Brazil http://bit.ly/PF0Pei ” This got me interested in the details of what Brazil had done, and which a Labour MP was...
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