This week saw the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics. This has been New Zealand’s most successful Olympic games, with the highest medal tally ever. After all the excitement and Olympic drama over the last few weeks, for most of us it’s back to reality with a bump.
If you need some inspiration for a change in career path, or if you’re just starting out, then Got a Trade awareness week may help you out. Infometrics are proud sponsors of this initiative that hopes to see more of New Zealand’s young people considering training in the trades as the demand for skilled labour grows.
Shaun Twaddle looks specifically at the manufacturing sector’s needs, and we also hear more from Shaun in our article series: ‘A day in the life of an economist’, where he expands on what the ‘Got a Trade? Got it Made’ campaign is all about and how this dovetails with his work at Infometrics.
Benje Patterson comments on the week that was and looks at the challenges facing the Reserve Bank in the upcoming months, as well as current status of the dairy industry.
Gareth Kiernan looks at the potential effects of the upcoming LVR changes in September, as well as providing our estimates of the effects of the previous two sets of LVR restrictions in 2013 and 2015.
