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Will There Be A Worldwide Financial Crash?   
Listener: 25 August, 2007   
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;   
We cannot tell whether the current turbulence in international financial markets will continue, end or get worse. What is certain, though, is that there are serious financial imbalances in the world economy that have to be corrected in the long [...]

25th August 2007 | Comments Closed

GREATER GOOD

Limit Your Carbon Emissions for Honourable Reasons, But Don’t Expect the World to Follow.
 
Listener: 11 August, 2007.
 
Keywords: Environment & Resources;  Globalisation & Trade;
 
It will not be easy for the world to solve the threat of global warming. It requires collective action, but there is no supranational political entity to enable it.
 
The Kyoto Agreement is between [...]

11th August 2007 | Comments Closed

MORTGAGE STRESS: HOW MUCH HAS IT RISEN?

This note was commissioned by the Sunday Star Times (5 August, 2007)

 
Keywords: Distributional Economics; Macroeconomics & Money; Social Policy;
 In the year to June 2004, 3.7% of all households suffered ‘mortgage stress’ defined as having at least 40% of their disposable income being used to service their mortgage. This definition of mortgage stress is similar to [...]

5th August 2007 | Comments Closed

SECULAR LITANY by M. K. Joseph

I was invited to write about a favourite poem by students from Auckland Girls Grammar. It was to be part of a collection “Dear to Me” published in July 2007 by Random House, the royalties going to Amnesty International (New Zealand). I wrote two essays – to give the students a choice. They chose [...]

3rd August 2007 | Comments Closed