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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Chlöe Swarbrick is tireless in her work, making people aware of Labour's antipathy to any change in our housing status quo. Is it rational to continue to hope for change when you can instead vote for it?
https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/1484011334622912513
It is not as if no one wasn’t aware that such increases were not expected, and the govt was Warnwd in JANUARY 2020 😱But this government will not listen to advice unless it is from “Yes” people who only want to be liked. Just as well as house affordability is so dear to Labours heart😤
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300223358/reserve-bank-repeatedly-warned-government-money-printing-would-lead-to-house-price-inflation
Good on you Judge David Ruth:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/127553849/judge-tells-unvaccinated-defendant-he-refuses-to-accept-nutcase-views
Call it tough love. Its needed.
The reason WHY we need Fair Play agreements.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/prosper/300493757/why-fair-pay-agreements-are-anything-but-fair
"Companies and firms investing in skills" First of many laughable Tuis.
Another reason why we should be keeping our powder dry re RATs.
https://twitter.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/1483698226620698628
Confirmed Covid deaths versus modeled estimates of excess mortality.
Last year’s Day of the Dead marked a grim milestone. On 1 November, the global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passed 5 million, official data suggested. It has now reached 5.5 million. But that figure is a significant underestimate. Records of excess mortality — a metric that involves comparing all deaths recorded with those expected to occur — show many more people than this have died in the pandemic.
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Among these models, the World Health Organization (WHO) is still working on its first global estimate, but the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington, offers daily updates of its own modelled results, as well as projections of how quickly the global toll might rise. And one of the highest-profile attempts to model a global estimate has come from the news media. The Economist magazine in London has used a machine-learning approach to produce an estimate of 12 million to 22 million excess deaths — or between 2 and 4 times the pandemic’s official toll so far (see go.nature.com/3qjtyge and ‘Global toll’).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8