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Under 65 and Healthy Individuals Must Be Able to Get on With Life
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, I supported the initial national lockdown and move to quarantined borders. Over the last 5 months the situation has changed markedly in four respects: * Firstly, the Infection Fatality Ratio can now be calculated to
Why We Can’t Keep Going Into Lockdown
This was going to be a boring little article about the government’s new rules about provisional tax penalties. I was going to recommend you read it after 11.00 tonight, particularly if you are having trouble sleeping. But I am going to have to leave that for another day
Letter From the North: Financial Dark Skies Ahead
Taking time off from writing my letters from the North I managed to do some work for my day job. During my busy week, I had some interesting face time with managers of second-level funding institutions. These are participating in and advising on the Government protection devices attempting to keep
Policy Paper | Back to Work
Julian Wood maxim.org.nz Nations around the world are expecting low or negative growth and higher unemployment rates as a result of fighting COVID-19. The supply side shock means that parts of the economy are in hibernation or struggling with a lack of demand, while other parts of the
Investing in a Resilient Workforce
Julian Wood maxim.org.nz When the Government closed New Zealand’s borders in response to COVID-19, flaws in our labour market were exposed. Not only was tourism and accommodation brought to a grinding halt, a massive temporary workforce was removed from the New Zealand labour market, leaving many businesses
A Quick Analysis of the Unemployment Numbers
I am no statistician. Ask anyone who knows me. Statistics was the only paper I struggled with when studying accountancy. But when I heard yesterday that the unemployment figures for the June 2020 quarter had actually fallen to 4%, I decided that the old adage is true. There are most
Woke Karma of the Day
Wibble In a stunning display of Woke-Karma, the popular “Coco’s Cantina” restaurant in Auckland’s Karangahape Road is now considering changing its name after complaints were made by the owners of the “Kingi” restaurant in Britomart that the name “Coco’s Cantina” was appropriating Latin culture. This comes after
The Company for “Thinkers Not Activists”
An employment company has just been started in the US called unwoke.hr that is filling a much-needed gap in the market. Their refreshing byline says that they Hire thinkers. Not activists. and Hire courageous, free thinking and freedom loving individuals. Not ideologues whose only agenda is to weaponise your
Do We Need A New Public Holiday for Matariki?
Matariki. The Maori New Year. A time of renewal and celebration. Matariki is a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future. It’s all due to the appearance of a certain constellation (Pleiades) in the night sky.
Gym Owner Arrested for Reopening Tells Tucker He’s ‘Not Afraid of Tyrants’
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Working or Welfare, Aspiration or Apathy
On Wednesday Judith Collins launched National’s Business Start policy whereby unemployed workers could access their KiwiSaver retirement fund to start a small business. Collins said she had started three small businesses and all had been successful. This was probably during the time her opponent in the election was struggling
Kiwisaver Funds for Start-ups
It seems that the National party is the only political party that is taking any notice of the fact that thousands of people are losing their jobs. By the time the election comes around, there will be many more redundancies and the government, still concentrating on the health perspectives of
BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 NZ First Party
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the NZ First Party: Save Tiwai Public Meeting in Invercargill Please
