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…
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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…
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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…
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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 this…
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