2021 Insights Newsletters

28 January, 2022

Insights 47: / 17 December:  Moving beyond the pandemic

Insights 46: / 10 December: Beyond Covid-19 | Fiscal accountability matters | A Christmas wish

Insights 45: / 3 December: Unemployment insurance is anti-social | Prudential climate reservations | WHO is on first

Insights 44: / 26 November: Reading with the light switched on | How to cost taxpayers $6 billion | Medical ethics

Insights 43: / 19 November: Vision for New Zealand | On houses and supermarkets | In praise of influencers

Insights 42: / 12 November: Mahuta on Three Waters | Unemployment Insurance | Believing fairy tales

Insights 41:/ 5 November: The next financial crisis? | Climate of distraction | Circuit-breaker lockdown needed ?

Insights 40: / 29 October: How to fix three waters | Diminishing property rights? | A Curley election question

Insights 39: / 22 October: Housing bipartisanship | What is a climate change minister to do? | An entry pitch

Insights 38: / 15 October: Dyslexia Awareness Month | Giving it away | Now for the real news

Insights 37: / 8 October: And then, we hope, we all win | Unemployment Insurance creates unemployment | Some unexpected Covid insights 

Insights 36:/ 1 October: Generation Lockdown | Were Budgets 2020 and 2021 Illegal? | Amateur hour

Insights 35: /  24 September: Illusions of History | Untangling vaccination rights and freedoms | Human misjudgement of experts

Insights 34: / 17 September: That we all be vaccinated | A barbaric experiment? | Understanding Heidegger

Insights 33: / 10 September: A Visionary Dream | A Primer on Unemployment Insurance | The art of political goal-setting

Insights 32: / 3 September: Only trade-offs | Inequality on housing | A jab and a paper card

Insights 31: / 27 August: What future, New Zealand? | Fresher water | The power of freedom | Second-hand Covid

Insights 30: / 20 August: Get it done | Electricity’s iron law | Coke’s Ronaldo Problem?

Insights 29: / 13 August:  Reflecting on the meaning of freedom | The end of the beginning | Vegan Wagen

Insights 28: / 6 August: Government by numbers | Unemployment Insurance Schemes Internationally | Kiwi Olympics

Insights 27: / 30 July:  Apologise, then make it right | Performance, not wellbeing | Clarke & Dawe in 2021

Insights 26: / 23 July: Penny wise, pound foolish | A thief in your wallet | It’s easy being green

Insights 25: / 16 July: No copyright on good policy thinking | Another cheer for MBIE | Bomb the city to save it

Insights 24: / 9 July: Greek tragedy | Decriminalisation and reducing harm | Long live Helen Clark

Insights 23:/ 2 July: Housing affordability a priority | Hijacking of KiwiSaver| Unkind speech

Insights 22:/ 25 June: Mental health another casualty | Unjustified dismissal | The orange revolution

Insights 21: / 18 June: Feebate follies | The Literacy ‘Reset’ | When is a tax a tax?

Insights 20: / 11 June: Plan does not cut emissions| To graduation and beyond | An awake press

Insights 19:/ 4 June: Reducing border risk | News from the Unreserved Bank | Dreaming of Rod

Insights 18: / 28 May: History is more than pre-defined answers | Social insurance | Spelling doesn't matter!

Insights 17: / 21 May: Falling short in the long run | Carbon’s creative destruction | Daylight robbery

Insights 16: / 14 May: Economic logic vs. politics | Housing wealth and consumption | Don’t stare at Brussels

Insights 15 / 7 May:  The good, the bad and the alarming | Bombs away| Get rich with Dogecoin

Insights 14 / 30 April: Howard’s lesson | Bomb bay doors open| Oh good. Rent control

Insights 13 / 23 April: A bold health package | Do your jury duty | Fixing Monopoly

Insights 12 / 16 April: Incentives on the agenda | Bloomfield’s reticence is baffling | Closer to the heart

Insights 11 / 9 April: Stronger borders | Planning is the externality | Own it all!

Insights 10 / 1 April: Funding councils | RMA reform| Pie in the SkyPath

Insights 9 / 26 March: Muldoonist ad hocery is back | How to manufacture a rental crisis | No case for reform | Everything is awesome

Insights 8 / 19 March: Climate Commission’s transparency | Better late than never | All hail the Technoking

Insights 7 / 12 March: A nation talking to itself | False arguments against our ETS | Umbrellas and vaping bans

Insights 6 / 5 March: The After-M*A*S*H | The education they deserve | The theory of human stupidity

Insights 5 / 26 February: Transparency, please | Kiwi Dream or nightmare | RIP the great kiwi BBQ

Insights 4 / 19 February: Building better borders | The monster replacing the RMA | Mastering Democracy

Insights 3 / 12 February: The government’s housing toolbox | Too little too late? | The aristocracy of pull

Insights 2 / 5 February: Defending the ETS | Becoming (il)literate | Simulation of life

Insights 1 / 29 January: Budgeting analysis | Build for the future | The mothers of invention

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