Cashed out: Use of paper money continues to decline – Inside Economics
What I am getting at is: is GDP really increasing or is the cash GDP market declining? Mark…
Is France about to default?
Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, the translated title of Dario Fo’s 1974 play, is one of the great works…
New York tops Oxford Economics’ Global Cities Index 2026, London ranks 2nd
New York retained the top spot in Oxford Economics Global Cities Index 2026, with its economy worth $2.6…
Inside Economics: Labour’s Barbara Edmonds talks to Liam Dann about how it will help small business, keeping NZ Super at 65
LD: That’s different to National’s Investment Boost. BE: There, it’s a one-off 20% in the first year and…
Do foreign asset sales make us richer or poorer? – Inside Economics
My question is: does this benefit New Zealand’s overseas exchange? First, I would like some clarification on what…
Supply chain and environmental implications of waste-to-graphite
Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2024 https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook-2024 (International Energy Agency, 2024). Bhattacharyya, S. et al. Graphite: the new critical…
Inside Economics: ‘An aspirational quality’ – can we trust Treasury forecasts? … plus, oil shock round two
Of course, the “better than expected” numbers were expected. They shouldn’t come as a surprise to regular readers…
Mortgage rates rise above 7% for first time since Jan. 2025 – YouTube
Mortgage rates rise above 7% for first time since Jan. 2025 YouTubeMortgage rates top 7%, dealing a further blow…
Impacts of PM2.5 air pollution on high-skilled worker productivity in China
Zivin, J. G. & Neidell, M. The impact of pollution on worker productivity. Am. Econ. Rev. 102, 3652–3673…
On-package claims are imperfect signals of overall nutritional quality
The final dataset included 145,609 products, comprising beverages and 10 food categories of processed consumer packaged goods (see…
Rebecca Williams appointed to the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee for a year
Finance Minister Nicola Willis said Williams would bring strong institutional knowledge to the committee. She has held various…
Turkish economic growth forecast falls to lowest rate since 2020, OECD reports
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) cut its forecast for Turkey’s economic growth in 2026 to…