... pressing economic concerns than the debt level even for ... evidenced by the visible consequences. And at the same time ... worth highlighting how poorly the austerity programs put forward ...tremendous easily measurable damage to the countries they are inflicted ...
... appear to be disagreeing with the most recent "economic research"...depending on where you level the bar for government's blithely ...austerity and that either damaging the economy so badly their ...debt ratios worsened (e.g the Greek eurozone crisis response) ...
... to what are the actual consequences. The consequence of slowed ... excessive debt was the subject of the paper 'Growth in ... unfortunately very influential following the great recession. https://en... debt is slowing the economy. "What the Reinhart-Rogoff affair ...
... economic outcomes are desirable, the point is just that its... of high government debt. The reason to discuss modeling is...because some models might make the assumption that at some ...however? Well no, in practice the BOJ pretty regularly imposes negative...
Ok, but this only can shift someone's tax band up on further salary and wage payments, but on these payments people do benefit from PAYE rate and band changes along with everybody else.
...including its spending on interest. The argument your making is kind...buys a lot of the govt debt. The most important thing ...clearing funds and the link between the OCR and the 90-day ... become disconnected. This means the effective monetary policy rate would...
... benefits made non-taxable the basis for their calculation ... how making the underlying benefit calculation be the gross amount...increasing benefits payments however. The difference seems mostly in ...appearances where the published benefit rates are...
...well known to be the wrong policy. The government deficit (or... separate issues regarding the handling of the NZ economy which ...cuts if elected. The other is the governments promise to cut... of the flattest inflation impacts recently). The problem with the tax ...
...tax sounds like rates. The problem with this is often... named something different. The relationship between the bright-line test and... as fixing the residential property market where the bright-line ... not going to rebalance the economy in any particular ...
That is a change in accounting practice. Anyone who treats that as material (including credit rating agencies) is not serious.
...is no longer external to the government. But this doesn't ...getting the country anywhere. On the other hand if you want the ...public sector to purchase the manufacture of ...recorded as GDP. Its the income of the builders, industry or researchers...
...as an economic influence institution). The point is their base line... is balanced budgets over the economic cycle and this isn't...bring in new taxes. In the context of a Labour government...% debt to GDP, in the context of the National government (you already...
... levels, though they also make the claim that NZ inflation is... simply not relevant to what the IMF are advocating (which is... program ala Bill English in the face of a technical recession...). For all we know the IMF would be fully satisfied...
... indicates you have not understood the criticism. Zero debt is not...remotely a realistic goal, what the IMF targets with a balanced... threshold doesn't actually exist in the data, and we should also... up with. By balancing the budget over the cycle NZ is staying...
... is in taking the rest of the policies as something Labour...program. Now we know the austerity program will be tremendously...irrelevant) public debt position. The country would still be better... panning out or (the more likely) the public sector austerity having...
Really should not be relying on IMF advice, its usually highly regressive at best.
... 90,000 valid at all. The funny thing is he seems... considered how it looks that the figures he quoted isn't remuneration...
... a whole sector of the economy probably both markup ... used at the same times, especially with the proliferation of ... to firms behavior and the firms not understanding or calculating...where supply and demand meet. The requirements (assumptions about economic ...
...or ACT politicians criticize the previous governments pandemic economic...policy, their counterfactual is the 10% unemployment exiting lockdown...with judging responsibility of the government for inflation. ...model doesn't correctly capture the dynamics of what ...
...of a shorthand. The response to the pandemic also had ... would have undermined the effectiveness of the lockdowns for a ...extent external inflation was the least of the countries economic problems....un-started. So the boat of the economic problem supposedly ...
... in order to understand how the actual system works. It's just... is an institution implemented by the NZ government.
...or any QE process bringing the deficit spending inside conventional monetary...driving inflation (largely on the back of supposedly over generous... justifying that argument then the result will be further ... of public services and the very direct economic harms ...
...does impact spending is the economic outcomes resulting from...for inflation what the outcomes of the governments impending austerity...public services at the present time. The regressive fiscal ...how magically compensate for the irresponsible taxation policy ...
... income of the institution which granted the loan. It's only the interest payments... tax deductible, while the capital payments which increase the borrowers equity are... will specifically need the interest payments and not the loan repayments to...
...sectors using markup prices. In the cases where there is an... can be pretty certain about the pricing model (share-market, ...drive land-lords out of the market while increasing ownership rates...relatively stable. This is just the structure of housing where you...
No, I got that. He just didn't seem to anticipate you would understand he was offering a pay cut. Since we wouldn't want to assume he offered you that intentionally he must not have understood what he was doing, and this no doubt applies to other areas as ...
...we both agree that the National governments economic management ... fact regardless of the election outcome the countries monetary policy ... prices against those facing the strongest cost of living ... economic policy position before the election, you only ever...
Assume you offered to help with all the other economic issues he has been struggling with.
... not-a) being true at the same time.
National didn't really acknowledge a cost of living crisis before the election. This would have undermined their preferred narrative that NZ wages were increasing too rapidly and supposedly driving inflation up.
... about his book, "Zionism during the Holocaust". I think this demonstrates... that the state of Israel has never... been the representative, defender or sanctuary of...
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