Economy
A Tick to Celebrate Single Parents?
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Earlier this week Ngati Kahungunu and Project Gender released the Mako Mama Mangopare Single Parents Project. The research is based on seven focus groups and an online survey of 3,545 single parents which asks about their circumstances regarding income, work, health, experience of discrimination and domestic
Thanks, ‘Party of the Worker’!
I can’t recall a time when inflation was so shockingly obvious, so astonishingly fast. I’ve lived through my share of economic cycles. I was too young to really notice the stagflation of the 1970s, but I graduated into the recession of the early 80s. I well recall a
Albo’s Training Wheels Just Keep Spinning
As Australia’s economy sinks deeper and deeper into the mire, the Albanese government’s training wheels are spinning and going nowhere. Just digging us in harder. As for Anthony Albanese himself? Mr 32% is coming across as clueless as his Arts grad Treasurer. As Australia’s infrastructure teeters on
New Wokeland: Prosperity or Division?
Simon Angelo Editor, Wealth Morning WealthMorning.com This article is general in nature and should not be construed as any financial or investment advice. Did you complete your 2023 census? Are you one of the ‘over 4 million’ thus far? This year’s form seemed more invasive. More complex. It
This Will Be the Number One Issue for the Election
The number one issue for the election is going to be the cost of living crisis, fuelled by this spendthrift Labour Government and their wasteful spending and policy settings. Law and order will be very close to cost of living, but it will be cost of living that will be
The Politics of Envy Is Lazy Politics but the Left Loves It
Michael Cullen once called John Key a “rich prick” and said, “I’m proud of the fact that my secondary education was not paid for by the taxpayers of New Zealand but by the farmers of Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay. I ripped them off for five years then, and
How the Dollar Became the World’s Top Global Currency
mises.org In March 2009, in the midst of recession, then Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner was pressed to respond on the question of whether or not another currency – possibly the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)—might displace the US dollar as the dominant global reserve currency. Geithner responded that
New Zealand’s IMF Ranking
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The latest IMF Current Account Ratings forecasts that our current account deficit will be proportionally the largest of the world’s 40 most advanced economies. Specifically, the IMF said it would be worse than notorious cot cases such as Greece and ranks us the 3rd
They Might Pay Half the Rate, but They Pay 68% of All Tax
The IRD and the Government have released a report that shows the wealthy in New Zealand pay an effective tax rate of half that which ordinary wage and salary earners pay. Missing from the media and the report is the fact that this is all entirely legal and that none
The Debt They Don’t Want to Acknowledge
PA Pundits – International House Republicans want to tie a new ceiling to some sensible spending cuts, but our nation’s historically profligate president seems unwilling to negotiate. Remember why the American people elected Joe Biden in 2020? Remember how he got those, er, 81 million votes? We’ll give you
The Uprisings Are Going to Increase
endoftheamericandream.com We are in the early stages of a global economic collapse, and people all over the globe are getting extremely angry. Here in the United States, higher prices are an inconvenience, but in other parts of the world higher prices can mean the difference between feeding your family
The History of Bank IOUs
Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher Part 13 of 18 The social conditions prevailing in the Kingdom of England and Wales at the very beginning of the 18th century were such that the parliament of the Kingdom
A New Home for De-platformed Conservatives
Jing Zeng Assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies Utrecht University Daniela Mahl PhD student at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) University of Zurich The last few years have seen the West swept by political polarisation, much of which has played out online. Debates around
The Business of Making Money
Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher Part 12 of 18 There is an eminently viable alternative to the present banking and monetary system, known as a full Sovereign Money system, an early advocate for which was Nobel
Tweaks and Legislation to Help Protect Cryptocurrencies
Labelled the crypto winter, the cryptocurrency market went through a rollercoaster ride last year. In 2021, riding on the crypto frenzy wave, the poster boy of the crypto industry, Bitcoin, soared to an all-time high of US$65,000 in November 2021, but then plummeted to a low of