croaking cassandra

Over the three and half years that Jacinda Ardern has been Prime Minister and Grant Robertson Minister of Finance it has become increasingly obvious that not only do they have no serious ideas fo...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/03/04/no-idea-apparently-probably-not-much-interest/

The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday ambled back from their extended summer break and delivered the first monetary policy communication for the year – no speeches, no sign o...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/02/25/not-that-good-really/

Having taken their long summer break – not heard from since 11 November – the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will be out with their Monetary Policy Statement on Wednesday. Much ha...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/02/22/monetary-policy/

Late on Friday afternoon I saw a tweet from Stuff politics and economics journalist Thomas Coughlan linking to a new and substantive article he’d written under the headline “Reserve Bank repe...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/02/09/not-really/

Submissions to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand bill close today. This is the next stage in the ongoing overhaul of the Reserve Bank legislation...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/02/04/reforming-the-reserve-bank-continued/

24 January last year was the date of my first post on the coronavirus, specifically the potential for significant economic damage and disruption if it turned into something significant beyond Chi...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2021/01/26/a-year-on/

I’ve written various pieces over the years on the Productivity Commission, both on specific papers and reports they have published, and on the Commission itself. I was quite keen on the idea of...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/12/21/productivity-productivity-commission-and-all-that/

On Saturday I did a guest lecture to the Master of Applied Finance course at Victoria University. Martien Lubberink, who runs the course, invited me along to talk to the students about the Reserv...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/12/14/monetary-policy-in-2020/

Minus the question mark, that is the title of a new and fairly short report undertaken for the Productivity Commission by economists Julie Fry and Peter Wilson on “Migration and New Zealand’s...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/12/02/could-do-better/

On Tuesday afternoon we learned that the Minister of Finance had written to the Governor of the Reserve Bank about housing and monetary policy. At his press conference yesterday, the Governor tol...

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/11/26/robertson-playing-distraction/