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    Treasury’s Oil BEFU - by frog



    I promised to follow up on last week’s Budget Economic Forecast Update, (BEFU), in order to compare it to my own predictions of what Treasury would predict. If you look at the chart from my post before Budget day, you will see that I predicted that Treasury would be lazy and just cut and paste [...] read more
    May 28, 2008 9:36 am - 26 Comments
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    Peak oil - by frog



    Joe Bennett receives a lesson in the economics of oil this morning in the Dominion Post. Tell me, I shouted above the din of hooves, why the price of petrol is soaring like the lark. Why, every time I stop at the pumps, someone is up a ladder changing the price. It’s killing me, Mr [...] read more
    May 28, 2008 8:57 am - 14 Comments