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Showing posts with label Monetary policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetary policy. Show all posts
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Michael Reddell: Tariff madness and monetary policy

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We’ve seen this morning the latest step up in the Trump-initiated trade war, with the additional 50 per cent tariffs imposed on imports from...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Michael Reddell: Forty years of floating

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Last year there was an interesting new book out, made up of 29 collected short papers by (more or less) prominent economists given at a 2023...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Michael Reddell: Orr at it again

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I decided not to bother listening to the Reserve Bank’s appearance at FEC yesterday morning . After all, the OCR decision had been much as e...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

Michael Reddell: The MPC returns from its summer holiday

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It is almost never an (unconditionally) good thing if an official policy interest rate (in our case the OCR) is being adjusted in large bite...
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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Michael Reddell: Orr on Q&A – Part II

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My post this morning [ https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/12/michael-reddell-more-outright.html ] was based on Adrian Orr’s Q&A i...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Michael Reddell: More outright dishonesty from Orr

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The Reserve Bank Governor has given an interview to TVNZ’s Katie Bradford, apparently done under the aegis of the Q&A show but too late ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

J. R. MacLeod: Understanding the Basics of Modern Banking

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The monetary and banking system plays an incredibly important role in contemporary economies. Knowledge of how this system functions should ...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Michael Reddell: Fiscal and monetary policy

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Over the last few years, The Treasury seems to have been toying with bidding for a more significant role for fiscal policy as a countercycli...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Michael Reddell: Heading for 2.5% (or less) by this time next year?

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There is a lot one could write about the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement and the Governor’s (sadly all-too-typical) thin-skinned an...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Professor Robert MacCulloch: The Chancellor of AUT and monetary policy

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I can't understand the Chancellor of AUT (and former Chair of Health NZ) Rob Campbell's explanations as to how monetary policy works...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

Michael Reddell: Astonishing indifference to a failed instution

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Since taking office, the new government has replaced quite a number of chairs of government entities. I’m sure there are many others but NZT...
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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Michael Reddell: A puzzle

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The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement yesterday seems to have caught the market on the hop. Such things would be less likely if (a) ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Michael Ryan: Does fighting inflation always lead to recession?

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Does fighting inflation always lead to recession? What 60 years of NZ data can tell us There is an ongoing global debate over whether the h...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

Robert MacCulloch: Does our New Government want to take us back to 1989?

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This blog disagrees with ACT leader's David Seymour's views on the Reserve Bank. Has he just come in fresh from a talk with Don Bras...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Point of Order: Plenty to ponder on economy......

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.....while OCR stance softens, a widening current account deficit threatens NZ’s credit rating It’s been an eventful week for the New Zealan...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Bryce Wilkinson: The mess the government has made of the monetary policy, and the task ahead

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Inflation is a problem for the first time in 30 years. Property prices have whiplashed. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has cost taxp...
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