Glen Greenwald interviewed. Hope it makes somebodies Sunday night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJDOuvPsjm0
Amazon in NZ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300278243/amazon-may-be-on-the-way-to-new-zealand-as-government-signs-subsidy-deal Well I'm not excited. Lots of downside for NZ businesses who have surely been put through enough, and let's keep in ...
The way this woman has been treated is shocking, but more importantly, and not for the first time, it shows the family court system needs changing. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300277390/the-court-said-she-was-lying-about-being-abused-she-did-a-...
Someone quoted Sagan in the comments “It is suicidal to create a society dependent on science and technology in which hardly anybody knows anything about the science and technology" Carl Sagan
Gates has finally gone off the deep end, his crazy out there on display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwIBUCBrF8
No visitors. No stability. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300276394/motel-generation-feared-as-emergency-housing-need-continues With the trans-Tasman bubble about to open, Philip-Barbara feared things could be about to get worse. “I think the ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018791236/legal-action-likely-over-covid-19-vaccination-rules-lawyer And why should these people be forced to take an experimental vaccine with unknown long term results, and key point, unknown ...
Glad Stuff covered this (again). What's with this [Genter's Cabinet paper titled ‘Maternity System Transformation’, designed to highlight the problems facing maternity services and chart a path forward]: But the cabinet paper hit a brick wall. After going ...
Wow, those artworks are amazing!
Image for the week https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/109548012/emma-cook-cartoons
Beuracrats involved and from two different countries. There will be something negative and unforseen happen in the ditch bubble.
It's presupposed since we wouldn't have a crisis if rents were reasonable.
There is a golden nugget at the end of this article on rent freezes. But rental advocates argued there was still no limit on the size of an increase – only the requirement that it not exceed market rent, defined as the average rent for a similar house in ...
All the best for the recovery phase.
I'd feel more comfortable with a travel bubble if the evidence for Ivermectin were properly considered. It can cut the suffering down to days which alone should have the government looking at it carefully on a cost basis alone. Lots of negation of the ...
Not this again!! How repulsive.
My concerns too.
He has a point. Why shouldn't ACC pay the same for over 65s? It's a clearly discrimination on the basis of age and it's not like their ACC levy is lower to compensate. And while we are all about change, completely unrelated to the article below all ACC ...
What a horrible projection. Now I understand the property investor who commented yesterday that the prices of houses would not be coming down (in fact not for the forseeable future, the changes in his opinion would only temporarily slow things). How ...
Zero Covid seems unlikely.
The government needs to put a limit on the amount rent can be hiked IMMEDIATELY before this takes place nationwide. Not a rent freeze, but a percentage limit of increase that will slow everything down. The alternative will be that we will run out of ...
This is a disturbing story of a Chinese Consulate looking very out of place with a air of intimidation with 3 meter high fences/walls in a quiet Adelaide neighbourhood. It has ten staff, the only other foreign consulates in South Australia have 1 (Italy) ...
Checked the Australian figure. Three years ago 25% of all residential property loans were interest only so not as bad as I thought. Still that's a huge number.
Yeah, that would be something to see. We should have followed immediately after Australia removed them. In Australia the percentage of IO loans for residential was quite high..from memory 30 or 40%. Not sure how many are IO in NZ but probably similar as ...
When you say robust pricing elements, do you mean things like social harm, affordability...that kind of thing, hence Kianga Ora's inclusion. It's not like they set rents they just pay subsidies based on the assumptive market rent which imho has always been...
More rental hysteria from the investor classes. Apparently they forgot basic market rules, the most important one being the rent can only increase to the point where someone agrees to pay the amount demanded. As for rent caps, why the hell not? It looks ...
Sorry. Quoted from tinyurl.com/hxvkp669 Other thoughts (outside of the trust issues)...not only can you not claim interest expenses, you are then also paying tax on rent as if it was all principal (and therefore 'profit'). So if you buy a rental where the ...
Good on RNZ for this article. Take a squiz at the first post in this thread, in particular the last paragraph. Now the dust has settled the new changes might be just the thing we needed to drop prices, get more people out of investment property. https://...
OTT intro is a guy protesting the refusal of a brand name to use slave labour. Rest of the video breaks down the new low for humanity where brands that won't go along with exploitation are targeted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1id-rhHp2wc
While he is a piece of work I fail to see why he is any different from the 501s we continue to take in.
Investing in new builds is the place to be (or it will be when we get enough materials - might have to mass build using rammed earth or something).
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