Archive - Fresh Economic Thinking

FET #29: Energy pseudo-market

Do you suspect electricity retailers are scamming you? You're probably right. Jonathan rants about how a strange note on his power bill sent him down…

Apr 24 •

34:41

The United States is still stimulating its economy with Covid-era policy

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are not

Apr 21 •

FET #28: Dangerous housing ideas in the fragile Kiwi ecosystem

This is a different FET episode. It was recorded in December 2023 in Wellington with Bernard Hickey for his podcast at The Kaka. Tim Helm and I talk…

Apr 17 •

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41:48

Why upzoning has a value

Because it provides a new financial security to existing property owners in the form of a perpetual call option

Apr 14 •

March 2024

Easter break from the Hijacked Housing debate

And a call out to help grow FET, Australia's newest one-man think-tank

Mar 31 •

What would a 162 year old man make of today's housing debate?

Looking at a century old debate being rehashed today

Mar 24 •

Government. Housing developer.

And the magic suits that make housing a bad investment for a public agency and a great investment for private buyers

Mar 17 •

FET #27: The Great Housing Hijack chat

What is The Great Housing Hijack? Who’s housing crisis is it anyway? And why do we need to understand the economic concept of equilibrium to know…

Mar 14 •

29:24

Nova Academia: An oasis for learning

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom — Aristotle (apparently)

Mar 10 •

Make welfare better with a Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Call it what you want, but letting the tax system work rather than using cumbersome eligibility requirements for each welfare program is fair and…

Mar 3 •

February 2024

Finding the Money: Can a film about modern monetary theory change our economic debates?

Or does it lead us back to many of the same tricky trade-offs

Feb 25 •

Unpicking concerns about using superannuation for housing and retiring with a mortgage

Tightening up the debate with straight facts and fresh economics

Feb 18 •

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