"relax, it's on auto pilot, just like our economic plan"
Eddie, tell Hide to give me a few minutes to go and get a bowl of popcorn and a cup of tea before he starts.
Spot the difference: November 2009 - John Key "Prime Minister John Key was dismissive of the group’s (Don Brashs 2025 Taskforce) first report and has suggested that its recommendations are unlikely to be implemented quickly, if at all….In that regard I am ...
The winner (or should it be loser?) gets to have coffee with Peter Dunne on the 2011 election campaign trail.
Farrar attempts to divide two issues. One, whether Keys use of the military helicopter was appropriate and two, how this has anything to do with him being rich. Here is my answer. One, was it appropriate to use a helicopter? No. Straight and simple. If Key...
He has no idea exactly how many rail shares he has, until he is put on the spot and his statements are challenged. Suddenly, in danger of being showen to be lying, he remembers.
Here is an interesting statistic about the socialisation of private debt from the latest economic report put out by the CTU 'Many households and firms are focusing on reducing debt. The 40 percent of households with the highest incomes owed about three-...
If someone posted the design on the web it'd be quite simple to replicate. Cut the photo and past it into a word document several times. Purchase some labels from a stationary store (2 per page or maybe 4 per page set up). Making sure the photo lined up ...
This issue has the unfortunate potential to be far bigger than a Prime Minister who has no plan (or interest?) to cope with the aftermath of a disaster or a Minister of Unemployment who is not aware enough to get basic projections of joblessness. If ...
You need to get a better grasp of reality and deal with your ignorance. Rob
For sale, one red carpet and trophy cabinet. Good condition, not used in recent years. Enquiries to A Wenger, Emirates Stadium, London. Early one morning Arsene Wenger was roused from sleep by a telephone call. "Wenger", Arsene sleepily muttered into the ...
Earlier, Mr English said the economy has made an "aggressive" recovery, even though in the second half of 2010 growth was flat. Aggressive, cough, recovery? Where?
Apparently all the statistical data is not at hand, some is still locked up in offices in Christchurch central and not able to be retrieved. That data may yet actually show the economy IS in recession. The matter of a technical recession or not is a ...
A BCR (benefit cost ratio) of 0.5 to 0.6 is an high quality targeted expernditure. Lots of low quality expenditure to trim, but that doesn't include a highway where for every $1 you put in you get the excellent return of 50 cents. Imagine if your bank or ...
Tax cuts partially funded by the tax payer having to borrow $1 billion over 4 years, based on very optimistic growth levels. In essence, the $1 billion based on NZ quickly getting out of recession. Reality, Bill English has taken us back into recession and...
I'm doing an extended trip there late this year including an on the ground look at how their current urban agriculture effort is progressing. Anyone interested can email me on w a i k a t o t r a i n s at g m a i l dot com
An examination of the Cuban experience may help explain things a little. They experienced a massive economic shock within a space of months. They lost access to 1/2 of their oil but also trading partners, machinery and consumer items. It was all over ...
I'm off for an extended trip there late in the year, including an on the gound look at current urban food production. Anyone interested can contact me w a i k a t o t r a i n s at g m a i l dot c o m
Whether we are at a peak of production or somewhere near to it is one point of debate. I am not qualified to state one way or the other. I doubt few people are, they can estimate, but we may only likely know when looking back in time. There could be the ...
We may well have 5 to 10 years for a transition (versus a drop) into a lower energy national growth path if we allocate sufficient resources and attention to it. The US produced a report a few years back, looking at the likelihood of energy shortages (oil ...
Whats this waffle about "a deleveraging recovery where the usual drivers of growing credit and consumption don't apply," English said. A "deleveraging recovery". Bill, if there is deleveraging there is no recovery, the recession is still unwinding. At best...
My experience of young nats & young ACTs over the years is that when a group of them assemble for a political meeting their natural boorish nature quickly comes to the fore. Indeed better for that ilk to actually keep their mouths shut. Not sure is Jamie-...
You really think National will get to 60% or 64% by borrowing billions and bankrupting NZ again? Hmmm, well they are over 50% with those policies, so maybe.
"I promise an unrelenting focus on jobs and look, I walk away" "I promise not to raise GST and look, I still walk away"
I am wondering whether the Maori Party is simply about race & cultural identity, simply about being Maori, rather than any significant focus on the material factors of work, unemployment, income etc. The racial & cultural identity things have being valued ...
Listening to the radio yesterday, a BBC report (I think) covered the Brazilian company Petrobas. It has discovered a significant off shore oil field. The field is, from memory, about 2 km underwater with another 3 km of rock and then 2 km of salt layers ...
The insurers will want to recover their losses through premium increases. The insurers and reinsurers won't simply look on this as a case of bad lcuk and write off their debt. They will want the money back. How? Increase premiums. Sure, there may be a ...
Bill is an expert at double dips. Double dipton first, is he now delivering us a second double dip? "Double: double diption? rob
Based on the hobbit information, here are a few questions I'd like to hear from John Key and Peter Jackson about: 1. Why did John Key tell us the Union black list WAS the reason Warners were looking to change the location? 2. Why didn’t Jackson come out ...
For all the posts about the ads just being about selling beer, the headline for the ads "How to lose an election" is an unusual one. Building a myth about how 'Coutts saved beer drinkers' is one matter. It may, if taken with some salt, just be a creative ...
Maybe Rodney should perhaps spent his time ensuring Ministers and Ministers use tax payer subsidised flights correctly. Maybe break his silence over what looks, on face value, to be misconduct with government spending. I wonder why Rodney isn't referring ...
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