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May 14, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Budget Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Prime Minister warns coming months the most challenging in a long time (paywalled) Jane Patterson and Gyles Beckford (RNZ): What to expect from the 2020 Budget Richard Harman (Politik): It’s budget ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 14 2020">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Economies as Pie Charts Most of us are familiar with the expressions ‘economic pie’ or ‘economic cake’. The ‘pie’ metaphor is probably best, because pies represent a holdall food item, less homogeneous in their finished forms than are cakes. Further, most of us are familiar with pie charts. Yesterday I published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/keith-rankin-analysis-pie-economics-a-way-to-understand-economic-balance/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Budget, economy Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): A budget with Labour’s future on the line Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Thursday’s Budget to be huge, but not revolutionary Terry Baucher (Spinoff): Can we expect any radical tax proposals? ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2020">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Income in an Economy The chart above shows how income is distributed in an economy. It shows three major sectors: Government, Business and Households. Households are the principal sector; governments and businesses serve households, and are accountable to households. The chart is a pie chart, representing the economic pie. (For now, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-national-income-the-pie-chart/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Government, NZ moves to Level 2 Graham Adams (Democracy Project): The Perils of Premature Congratulation Natasha Hamilton-Hart (Stuff): NZ’s toolkit for the Covid-19 response limited by our institutions Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Back to business ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 12 2020">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Government documents on Covid-19 response released Derek Cheng (Herald): The gagging order from Jacinda Ardern’s office – cynical, arrogant and unnecessary Tim Watkins (Pundit): Gagging Order Is Double Dumb: Disrespecting Public Sacrifice & ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-11-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2020">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s chart shows (in grey) the estimated impact of Covid-19 on mortality rates in the selected countries. For most of these countries, the ‘excess death’ procedure provides an estimate of underreporting in underreporting countries compared to those with the most comprehensive reporting. Some of these extra deaths may have occurred as ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Estimating the true death tolls from Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-estimating-the-true-death-tolls-from-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Estimating the true death tolls from Covid19">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Democracy, lockdown legality Matthew Hooton (Herald): Government abusing lockdown powers (paywalled) Chris Trotter: The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law Peter Dunne: Cracks in the machinery of democracy Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Leaked ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-08-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Government, lockdown legality Branko Marcetic (Democracy Project): The prime minister should listen to her own mantra: “Be kind” RNZ: Was Covid-19 lockdown legal? Professor Claudia Geiringer explains Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Legal challenge over coronavirus ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2020">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Move to Level 2 1News: Modelling expert ‘a little bit nervous’ that unknown Covid-19 cases will spread if we burst our bubbles Gordon Purdie, Nick Wilson, Michael Baker (Public Health Expert): What we ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2020">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surviving the Black Flu It has been interesting for me to look back and investigate the Black Flu pandemic of 1918. The 1918 pandemic is widely regarded to have been the world’s worst pandemic since the Black Death of the late 1340s. (It was commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, but this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/keith-rankin-analysis-smart-treatments-in-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-black-flu/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Economy Robert MacCulloch (Herald): A time for trickle-up economics (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Sir Roger Douglas – Let big firms ‘fend for themselves’ Bruce Munro (ODT): Recovery for all Simon Wilson (Herald): Is this the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-05-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020">Read more</a>
