Economic Weekly: Team America, and a welcome uprising
- Middle-East tensions escalated last week as Israel continued its efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, and see if it can trigger a regime change to boot
- Over the weekend, the US made the monumental decision to get involved, as only it has the weapons that stand any chance of destroying Iran’s buried nuclear facilities and upping the chances of preventing Iran from making a nuclear bomb for some time
- Looking very narrowly at NZ, a sustained lift in fuel prices would make the RBNZ more nervous about inflation expectations creating unhelpful behavioural shifts
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Mark Smith
Senior Economist
Mark joined ASB in 2017, with over 20 years of public and private sector experience working as an economist in New Zealand and the UK.
His resume includes lengthy stints at ANZ and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and he has also worked at the Bank of England, HM Treasury and the New Zealand Transport Agency. Mark's areas of specialisation include interest rate strategy, macro-economic analysis and urban economics.
Born and bred in the Waikato, Mark studied at Waikato University where he graduated with a Master of Social Sciences, majoring in Economics.
Mark's key strengths are the ability to use his extensive experience, inquisitive nature, analytical ability, creativity and pragmatism to dig a little deeper and to deliver common sense solutions to tackle complex problems.
When not at work Mark likes to travel, keep fit and spend time with his friends and family.
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