Gold Fever
There’s gold fever in the air in Central Otago as Santana Minerals pushes their gold mining consent forward in the Fast Track application process. Why do we love gold so much?
Tag: economics
Cat bonds
Jamaica will soon get a USD150 million payout from their parametric cat bond insurance as a result of Hurricane Melissa. So what is a cat bond?
Inflation vs Employment
What goes up must come down – this applies to (ex) Mayors, inflation and employment alike. NZ has to reduce employment to ‘cool’ the ‘overheated economy’. How did we get here?
Solar power
Why did we install PV? To save money? Be good planet-savers? Make our own power? Because we’re geeks? A little of everything?
Open for Inspiration
How could top economists not believe inflation woudl return? Because of cognitive biases – how can humans avoid these traps?
Good or Bad?
Should we be buying better? Like our electric vehicle to replace our defunct ICE car. Or buying less?
Inflation & interest rates
Where are inflation and interest rates in New Zealand headed? Quantitative easing increased money supply but the government didn’t expect that to result in inflation. Huh?
The role of insurance
If you experienced the Canterbury earthquakes, or another major natural disaster event, you may hate insurance companies as much as I do. However, insurance is a powerful force influencing our actions – what will travel insurance look like in a post-COVID world?
Things I don’t understand
Human behaviour is puzzling. We avidly mine and invest in gold to store in vaults, we take flights to nowhere during COVID when we aren’t allowed to travel, we pretend to explore for resources when we are just trying to jack their value up, we can act swiftly in the face of a pandemic but, in the face of climate change, we seem powerless to act.