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October 12, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart shows the anomalous economy which is Ireland. In tradingeconomics.com, Ireland and New Zealand are shown as having exactly the same population (5.15m). Yet Ireland has a GDP of $US529 billion, whereas New Zealand has a GDP of $US247 billion, less than half. (Even Sweden, with double Ireland’s population, has ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Economic Growth: Ireland compared to Australasia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-economic-growth-ireland-compared-to-australasia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Economic Growth: Ireland compared to Australasia">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I read this article quoting Christopher Luxon as follows: “We’ve been to many places where marginal seats are and we’re getting good movement.” (Luxon talks to media amid election result limbo fears, NZ Herald, 7 Oct 2023). He has this misplaced narrative around marginal seats. I have also heard talk in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Does Christopher Luxon Understand MMP?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/keith-rankin-analysis-does-christopher-luxon-understand-mmp/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Does Christopher Luxon Understand MMP?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart looks rather noisy, and so it should. Life and death are messy, and subject to random variations. But this chart, for females, and those that follow, are important charts. It’s worth looking through the ‘random noise’. These charts suggest that the cliché ‘we are all living longer’ is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-mortality-increases-in-new-zealand-by-generation-and-sex/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The principal measure of economic success in the mainstream narrative is economic growth. The pointy heads associated with that narrative will correctly point out that its economic growth per capita that matters, and which serves as a crude proxy for ‘living standards’. This conventional wisdom says that annual economic growth of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Economic Growth per Capita: New Zealand in Context" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-economic-growth-per-capita-new-zealand-in-context/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Economic Growth per Capita: New Zealand in Context">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above looks at the changing numbers of deaths for New Zealand’s seven adult generations. The numbers are ‘triennial’ – three-year percentage increases. For example, in 2020, twenty percent (20%) more Generation-Y people died than three years earlier; with ‘three years earlier defined as the average for years 2015 to 2019, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Triennial increases in Deaths in New Zealand by Generation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-triennial-increases-in-deaths-in-new-zealand-by-generation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Triennial increases in Deaths in New Zealand by Generation">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart shows total deaths in a number of comparable countries with high or highish life expectancies. The countries with most deaths have older populations. New Zealand should perhaps be compared most with Ireland, Scotland, Denmark and Finland; all countries with just over five million people. And with Australia. Australian ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Deaths as an Indicator of Population Age Structure and the increasing Demand for Health Care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-deaths-as-an-indicator-of-population-age-structure-and-the-increasing-demand-for-health-care/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Deaths as an Indicator of Population Age Structure and the increasing Demand for Health Care">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The Financial Profile of a Nation State New Zealand Incorporated (in abbreviation, NZ Inc.) is Aotearoa New Zealand thought of as an economic nation. The domestic economy of New Zealand splits into the ‘Government’ and ‘Private’ sectors, where ‘Private’ means ‘non-Government’. ‘NZ Inc.’ is embodied within ‘World Inc.’; that is, within ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s Exceptional Financial Policy Signature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/04/keith-rankin-analysis-new-zealands-exceptional-financial-policy-signature/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s Exceptional Financial Policy Signature">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. New Zealand’s Exceptional Economic Policy Fingerprint The above chart shows New Zealand’s financial (im)balances from 1999. What is truly exceptional is the number of years in which Aotearoa New Zealand has green and red together on the ‘surplus’ side of the chart. (I have discussed this in May in Visualising Countries’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand’s Financial Exceptionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/31/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-new-zealands-financial-exceptionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand’s Financial Exceptionalism">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In New Zealand, both Labour and National want the teaching of ‘financial literacy’ to become compulsory in schools. (See Labour pledges compulsory financial literacy classes in schools and National also aiming to make financial literacy compulsory in schools from One News, 20 August 2023. On the 6pm news, Prime Minister Chris ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Financial Literacy, Compound Interest, and the Veneration of Money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/22/keith-rankin-analysis-financial-literacy-compound-interest-and-the-veneration-of-money/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Financial Literacy, Compound Interest, and the Veneration of Money">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2023
Essay by Keith Rankin. Fresh vegetables and fruit – quality foods – are what economists call a merit good, like primary health care, education and urban public transport. By contrast, ‘junk food’ – rich in sugar – is a demerit good. We in New Zealand and many other countries have a problem: too much unhealthy ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Subsidise Vegetables and Fruit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/15/keith-rankin-essay-subsidise-vegetables-and-fruit/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Subsidise Vegetables and Fruit">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These three countries are very useful comparators because they have broadly similar demographics – especially population age structures – to each other. Further they have comparable living standards. The Republic of Ireland has a population the same size as New Zealand (and a similar climate); Australia has close to five ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal Profile of Deaths in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia: 2015-2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-seasonal-profile-of-deaths-in-ireland-new-zealand-and-australia-2015-2023/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal Profile of Deaths in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia: 2015-2023">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week we heard the Labour Party leader, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, practically rule out changes to the marginal income tax rates or the associated income thresholds. In particular, he indicated that a Hipkins-led government would not proceed with proposals to introduce a tax-free income bracket. And he ruled out new ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Income Tax and Common-Sense: the Aotearoa New Zealand case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/17/keith-rankin-analysis-income-tax-and-common-sense-the-aotearoa-new-zealand-case/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Income Tax and Common-Sense: the Aotearoa New Zealand case">Read more</a>
