Monthly Archives: October 2005

Avoiding Global Meltdown: How the IMF Lost Battles but Won the War

This entry was posted in Listener, Macroeconomics & Money on 22nd October 2005 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 22 October, 2005.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;

Monetary activity is dominated by capital flows. Its interaction with the trade of goods and services may seem marginal, but a financial crisis in the monetary system threatens the payments system, and could lead to a depression. This is especially true internationally because of the foreign exchange requirements of trade.

It’s the Economy, Stupid: the Election Was Not About the Economy. Why?

This entry was posted in Listener, Macroeconomics & Money on 8th October 2005 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 8 October, 2005.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;

In a few months, the 2005 election debate may be forgotten, as we focus on the real economic issues that were hardly addressed during it. The most salient include:

The Opinion Polls and the 2005 Election.

This entry was posted in Political Economy & History, Statistics on 5th October 2005 by Brian Easton.

Some material I prepared just before the election, which my son put on his Vorb website, where there are the graphs and some subsequent comments.

Keywords: Political Economy & History; Statistics;

I thought you might be interested in the following two charts. They combine four polls (NZH, Fairfax, TV1, TV3), interpolate between polls and project after them (out to election day – a very foolish thing I add).