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Economist Brian Easton asks: Is leaving inflation fighting to the Reserve Bank all we can do?
5th Dec 22, 9:19am
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Economist Brian Easton asks: Is leaving inflation fighting to the Reserve Bank all we can do?
Economist Brian Easton says financial activity is too often gambling. Cryptocurrencies are the latest example
28th Nov 22, 8:36am
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Economist Brian Easton says financial activity is too often gambling. Cryptocurrencies are the latest example
Economist Brian Easton says you need to define 'stagflation' before deciding whether we are experiencing it
21st Nov 22, 8:57am
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Economist Brian Easton says you need to define 'stagflation' before deciding whether we are experiencing it
Economist Brian Easton says it is easy enough to say neoliberalism rose, and that it is failing, but why now?
14th Nov 22, 9:03am
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Economist Brian Easton says it is easy enough to say neoliberalism rose, and that it is failing, but why now?
Economist Brian Easton says we are tyrannised by our bond market and that is the way it has to be as long as we are in debt to it
7th Nov 22, 8:42am
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Economist Brian Easton says we are tyrannised by our bond market and that is the way it has to be as long as we are in debt to it
Given that it is increasingly difficult to get affordable earthquake insurance, we may have to radically revise the system, economist Brian Easton says
31st Oct 22, 8:40am
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Given that it is increasingly difficult to get affordable earthquake insurance, we may have to radically revise the system, economist Brian Easton says
Economist Brian Easton tackles Matthew Hooton's ideological alarmism, saying the cliché, ‘never waste a good crisis’, is not an excuse for trying to manufacture one
24th Oct 22, 9:00am
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Economist Brian Easton tackles Matthew Hooton's ideological alarmism, saying the cliché, ‘never waste a good crisis’, is not an excuse for trying to manufacture one
Economist Brian Easton wonders where New Zealand fits into China’s plans to link better to the world
17th Oct 22, 8:37am
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Economist Brian Easton wonders where New Zealand fits into China’s plans to link better to the world
Economist Brian Easton says the evidence from the past is that the neoliberal crash-through approach proposed by the new Truss-Kwarteng British government does not lift economic performance
10th Oct 22, 9:10am
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Economist Brian Easton says the evidence from the past is that the neoliberal crash-through approach proposed by the new Truss-Kwarteng British government does not lift economic performance
Economist Brian Easton says those in central government are happy to focus on local government failures while ignoring central government ones, which can be even bigger
3rd Oct 22, 8:53am
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Economist Brian Easton says those in central government are happy to focus on local government failures while ignoring central government ones, which can be even bigger
Economist Brian Easton points out the carbon, energy and dollar cycles do not integrate well. He says we should be relying less on forestry to solve our emissions targets and more on prodding users, especially ICE vehicles, towards emitting less
26th Sep 22, 10:09am
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Economist Brian Easton points out the carbon, energy and dollar cycles do not integrate well. He says we should be relying less on forestry to solve our emissions targets and more on prodding users, especially ICE vehicles, towards emitting less
Economist Brian Easton says while the aim of a decent liberal Russia is still there, its achievement is likely to be a long way off
19th Sep 22, 8:58am
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Economist Brian Easton says while the aim of a decent liberal Russia is still there, its achievement is likely to be a long way off
Economist Brian Easton says we should try to to evaluate our social policies systematically. But big data has limitations
12th Sep 22, 9:23am
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Economist Brian Easton says we should try to to evaluate our social policies systematically. But big data has limitations
Economist Brian Easton asks: Why is the British economy in more trouble than most others?
5th Sep 22, 8:50am
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Economist Brian Easton asks: Why is the British economy in more trouble than most others?
Economist Brian Easton explains what to do when financial institutions fail
Economist Brian Easton says too many commentators on current price pressures have not understood that this time it is very different from the 1970s. Their prescriptions may accelerate inflation
8th Aug 22, 8:42am
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Economist Brian Easton says too many commentators on current price pressures have not understood that this time it is very different from the 1970s. Their prescriptions may accelerate inflation
Economist Brian Easton says an opposition caucus is a seething mass of factions, schemings, plottings and plans for coups
1st Aug 22, 8:55am
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Economist Brian Easton says an opposition caucus is a seething mass of factions, schemings, plottings and plans for coups
Economist Brian Easton questions whether we are keeping up with the changing global trade patterns
25th Jul 22, 9:14am
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Economist Brian Easton questions whether we are keeping up with the changing global trade patterns
Economist Brian Easton says the ongoing decline in market income inequality stopped in the 1980s. Since then it has been stable, while 1990 public policy actively increased disposable income inequality
18th Jul 22, 8:32am
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Economist Brian Easton says the ongoing decline in market income inequality stopped in the 1980s. Since then it has been stable, while 1990 public policy actively increased disposable income inequality
Economist Brian Easton says we cannot be sure if we are facing secular stagnation, but the answer matters - even in the short term
11th Jul 22, 8:32am
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Economist Brian Easton says we cannot be sure if we are facing secular stagnation, but the answer matters - even in the short term
Economist Brian Easton says behavioural economics challenges our assumptions about the relevance of rational economic man
4th Jul 22, 9:01am
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Economist Brian Easton says behavioural economics challenges our assumptions about the relevance of rational economic man
Economist Brian Easton crunches the recent March quarter GDP data
Economist Brian Easton says the outlook does not look that promising
Economist Brian Easton says we again face the question of 40 years ago: what are effective development strategies?
13th Jun 22, 8:51am
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Economist Brian Easton says we again face the question of 40 years ago: what are effective development strategies?
‘Dark Towers’, a book on Deutsche Bank, throws light on a long running economic dispute. Brian Easton reviews the issues it raises through his independent sceptical lens
6th Jun 22, 10:01am
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‘Dark Towers’, a book on Deutsche Bank, throws light on a long running economic dispute. Brian Easton reviews the issues it raises through his independent sceptical lens