Many people ask me why it is that I avoid investment or doing business (if it can possibly be avoided) in New Zealand altogether; today I shall give you some hilarious, classic examples of why that is. Don’t choke from laughing too much. Although, rather amusingly, whenever I answer
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. There’s huge public concern about the potential for the wealthy to translate their economic power into political
Information Opinion Warning Disclaimer: Nothing in this article constitutes professional and/or financial advice. You alone assume the sole responsibility of evaluating the merits and risks associated with the use of any information or opinion in this article. As concerns about a sharemarket crash gain both speed and credibility, there
Today’s Friday Fact is brought to you by The Facts. Did you know that this Government’s Net Core Crown Debt doubled in just three years? The debt mound has become a mountain. Are we OK with this increase in government debt? Notes: * The data series provided by Treasury
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. With worldwide refinery closures outpacing new construction,
Ryan Lau brownstone.org Ryan Lau is CEO of Dairy Dirt LLC They say that the progression of history leads to the demise, legal or social, of increasingly docile objects and undertakings. Cars without seatbelts. Firearm possession without jumping through some know-it-all’s hoops. The cliff you used to jump
Hannah Frankman fee.org Hannah is a career development coach and a course instructor. She works as an advisor at Praxis and an instructor at The Objective Standard Institute. You can find her work at hannahfrankman.com. Kevin Cooper, known to the internet as Cole Summers, was taken from this
And just like that… It’s all over. We left off where my son and the lawyer were both AWOL and I was required to persuade them both to provide personal ID information in triplicate and also to sign Account Operating Authority forms… even though neither of them had access
My Trust bank account, which has been in existence for 16 years, is under scrutiny from the BNZ. They claim to need all my ID information in quadruplicate, and they claim they do not have copy of the original Trust deed. This cannot be true, of course. They must have
How to destroy a NZ business in three easy steps. 1. Designate the only producer of plasterboard in New Zealand as NOT an essential industry and force them to completely stop production. 2. After months of lockdown wonder why the building industry is now in crisis. 3. Pat the final
I have been a BNZ customer since the 1990s. We had a mortgage with them back then, and when I went into business in 2001 I set up a business account with them too. I set up a trust in 2006 to protect the family home, also with the BNZ.
Didn’t supermarkets begin selling alcohol to provide sorely needed competition? Well, that was the spiel… (There are some areas where liquor trusts still have full control.) Now, though, it seems the supermarket duopoly stymies local councils in any attempts to regulate consumption in their areas. Auckland has been fighting
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson ACT is calling on the new COVID-19 Minister to remove the broad vaccination mandates on health workers. Workforce shortages are having a huge detrimental impact across the health sector and vaccination mandates, alongside unworkable isolation requirements, are major reasons for this. Emergency departments are
Information Opinion So the true position is finally being revealed. The economy started to turn downwards at the beginning of the year. This is a ‘surprise’ to RNZ and a ‘puzzle’ to Stuff, but it is no surprise to most of us. We have been in a decline for months…
Brett Wilkins commondreams.org Press freedom and antitrust advocates on Friday derided both Facebook and corporate media beneficiaries of the tech titan’s multimillion dollar spending spree following reporting that the company is rethinking its investments amid increasing regulatory pressures and a shift away from news partnerships. “For years, Facebook
