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August 27, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Macroeconomic Policy Macroeconomic policy is largely the art or science of the governance of economic imbalance. Some of the words that indicate imbalance are ‘recession’, ‘inflation’, ‘deflation’ and ‘contraction’. Another word, ‘stagflation’, represents a mix of recession and inflation. (Note that ‘inflation’ here indicates an unsustainable and ongoing process of price ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The Two Policy Silos: Reserve Bank and Treasury" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/27/keith-rankin-analysis-the-two-policy-silos-reserve-bank-and-treasury/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The Two Policy Silos: Reserve Bank and Treasury">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s chart shows the most current Covid19 outbreaks, including all the little countries. As in March 2020, some of these are the worst affected. It also gives lie to the claim that New Zealand is advantaged by being an island country. In the gold and silver position are Aruba and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Covid-19 in the Peak of the Northern Hemisphere Tourist Season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/21/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-covid-19-in-the-peak-of-the-northern-hemisphere-tourist-season/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Covid-19 in the Peak of the Northern Hemisphere Tourist Season">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Early Identification and Action We are now learning, from Covid19, one thing above all else. With epidemics, it is early identification and action that matters. When our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says that New Zealand’s government approach is to “go hard and go early”, she is only partly correct. What matters ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/keith-rankin-epidemic-costs-and-responses-coronavirus-and-tuberculosis/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s chart compares this week’s Covid-19 outbreak in New Zealand with the latest case-data from other comparable countries. Note that the data plots new daily cases, smoothed using seven-day averages. However, the ‘black square’ represents New Zealand’s most recent daily total of new cases, at 260 per 100 million people (which ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing New Zealand’s Outbreak with Comparable Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-new-zealands-outbreak-with-comparable-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing New Zealand’s Outbreak with Comparable Countries">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Jacinda Ardern is Prime Minister for a good reason. She is an excellent communicator. She got the message about mask-wearing almost bang-on in her speech yesterday. She was correctly reported as saying: Aucklanders should use a mask if they leave the house to access essential services. She may have given the ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/keith-rankin-on-messaging-and-masks-and-media/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. “I think you have to recognise money comes from somewhere. It doesn’t just come from a big money tree.” Judith Collins 2020 “Someone has to pay the bill – there aren’t little pixies at the bottom of the garden printing cash.” John Key 2009 These messages from two different National Party ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/keith-rankin-analysis-money-where-does-it-come-from-where-does-it-go/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The known incidences of Covid19 in Spain, Belgium and Sweden are similar, although Sweden lagged for a while before overtaking the other two. In deaths, Sweden is slightly lower than Spain and about 30% lower than Belgium. Belgium, after little San Marino, is still the country with the highest deaths per ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-australian-outbreak-with-high-incidence-european-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Money as an Unfortunate Metaphor for Cost Especially but not only in election years, when any new policy is proposed by a major party, a ubiquitous refrain follows: “what will it cost?”; “where will the money come from?”. The context is that cost is the spending of ‘coin’. Indeed I once ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/keith-rankin-analysis-counting-the-cost-of-government-action-and-inaction/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the incidence of new Covid19 cases in countries with more than 7,500,000 people. (Hong Kong is the smallest country to feature.) It shows that, while very serious, the Australian outbreak is far from unique. The outbreak in Israel, for example, is much worse. Generally, countries with ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Latest Incidences for Large Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/31/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-latest-incidences-for-large-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Latest Incidences for Large Countries">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Rob Muldoon was a pugnacious and abrasive prime minister of New Zealand who was treated unkindly by commentators – and even historians – in the aftermath of his period in office (1975 to 1984). Hopefully, future historians will treat him in a much more objective way. It is important to note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Rob Muldoon and Judith Collins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/keith-rankin-analysis-rob-muldoon-and-judith-collins/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Rob Muldoon and Judith Collins">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Changing Income-Relaxation Balance as a sequence of Pie Charts On June 30 (Chart Analysis on Evening Report) I promised to elaborate on the economic policies that would underpin the new optimisation of work-life balance. I argued that economic optimisation means a balance between income and leisure, and that the Covid19 pandemic ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Optimising Work-Life Balance in the wake of Covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/keith-rankin-analysis-optimising-work-life-balance-in-the-wake-of-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Optimising Work-Life Balance in the wake of Covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the huge European wave of Covid-19 in March. At its exponential peak, the chart shows world Covid19 weekly deaths increasing by 260 percent in the second week of March, compared to March’s first week. This European wave contrasts sharply with the last week of February, when ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-global-covid19-european-wave-and-rising-tail/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail">Read more</a>
