Eric Crampton
@EricCrampton
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Chief Economist at the NZ Initiative. Adjunct Senior Fellow, Economics, @ucnz. If this ship sinks: @[email protected] or @ericcrampton.bsky.social
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined June 2009
RT @dwarkesh_sp: I studied computer science in college, but I wised up after I graduated, and transitioned to the more risk-averse conserva…
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Making it easier for KiwiSaver funds to invest in riskier NZ assets doesn't lean against home-market bias. And I very much hope we don't wind up with a lean on NZ SuperFund or KiwiSaver funds to invest in NZ infrastructure projects.
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@petercarrell @NicolaWillisMP My official comment: "The McDonald's App got me TWENTY nuggets for TWELVE DOLLARS as lunch today. I wish the people of Wanaka were also allowed this freedom."
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@SureshSyed Changes in the 2000s said submissions from trade competitors were to be ignored. Unfortunately, a lot of anticompetitive use of RM still goes on.
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RT @dan_brunskill: Brad Olsen gets a round of applause for saying the major focus of fiscal policy is "paying people to be old"
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@BruceRo02959640 Was isolating at home last week with Covid. PSE - old expired PSE from Canada from the stupid prohibition era that we're still working through - sorted.
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The old Key press release, which asserted that phenylephrine is just as effective for most people as pseudoephedrine.
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@paul_melville1 @glennkearney @actparty @SimonCourtACT And those of is who loved going for a Whopper. I miss the BK!
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RT @ianbremmer: nato leadership has been unwavering in commitment to ukraine membership since russia’s invasion…even though they had no pla…
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@NzFubar Or, try fining littering. I mean, it'd be stupid to ban cars just because some doofuses speed.
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