Brian Fallow provides an excellent look at the urgent need for cost containment in health and the problems this involves. He points out that rising health costs is a far bigger potential problem than superannuation. It is also far more difficult to solve as a simple shift in age eligibility would sort out most superannuation [...]

Brian Fallow writes a succinct summary of the past year in economic terms. Phil Twyford at Red Alert selectively quotes from Fallow’s article to make the point that National is apparently doing nothing much to help us out of the crisis. I don’t think that is the real import of Fallow’s article. Fallow’s point is [...]

Well, maybe not. It seems like it is suddenly going to get a whole lot more expensive. Trevor Mallard seems to think that the government is fear-mongering. He, along with Brian Fallow and Rod Oram, seem to think that the ACC blowout is merely an accounting problem, a combination of accounting standards and poor investment [...]

Brian Fallow commented on the Castalia report on broadband yesterday. They pour cold water on National’s plans for fibre to the home on the grounds that there is no market failure and that government intervention is not required. I can’t say I’m very convinced by their report. They make four main points, all four, of which, I think [...]