Geoff Bertram

Nov 28, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Geoff Bertram

There is a famous story about King Canute, who set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not to wet his feet and robes. Yet continuing to rise as usual, the tide dashed over his feet and legs. Then the king leapt backwards, saying “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings”.

Nov 28, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |James Borrowdale |Geoff Bertram |John Sinclair

The disappearedSolitary confinement destroys people, but New Zealand continues to inflict it on our most vulnerable and damaged people, including children, as a matter of course. Aaron Smale reports on the practice that won’t go away and the people that are psychologically annihilated and physically disappeared in state institutions. By Aaron Smale

Oct 17, 2024 | dailybulletin.com.au | Geoff Bertram

Economists working on macroeconomic policy – things like taxes and spending, interest rates and border controls on flows of trade and money – often refer to a set of key relationships governments can influence. In the textbooks, each of those relationships is drawn as a curve in a graph. First is the IS (“investment–saving”) curve. This says that if everything else stays the same, the Reserve Bank can increase economic output and employment by lowering the interest rate.

Oct 15, 2024 | theconversation.com | Geoff Bertram

Economists working on macroeconomic policy – things like taxes and spending, interest rates and border controls on flows of trade and money – often refer to a set of key relationships governments can influence. In the textbooks, each of those relationships is drawn as a curve in a graph. First is the IS (“investment–saving”) curve. This says that if everything else stays the same, the Reserve Bank can increase economic output and employment by lowering the interest rate.

Jul 28, 2024 | carbonnews.co.nz | Geoff Bertram

Today 10:30am COMMENT: Unless the government can find very cheap offshore mitigation, the temptation to walk away from its Paris Agreement obligations may well be too strong to resist for a coalition government focused on fiscal austerity. ...