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It’s Time to Start Thinking about Inflation

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it,

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Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s deposit insurance scheme is the kind of moral hazard madness that led to the GFC,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is the socialisation of banking. “The Minister of Finance is saying 93 percent of bank customers don’t care about

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Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas

Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas

It’s obvious that Australia needs to urgently adopt gender-based employment quotas in order to address the growing gender imbalance in our workforce. As the economy begins to struggle out of the self-inflicted disaster of the Wuhan plague, it’s clear that one half of the population is

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The Great Chip War: A Golden Investment Opportunity in the Making?

John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Marketing Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include marketing, customer service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. In addition to contributing financial and geopolitical articles

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The Latest Feminist Lie About Women’s Earnings

The Latest Feminist Lie About Women’s Earnings

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, you’ll have been deafened by the outraged screeching of women. Well, not all women: just the tiny coven of permanently-outraged frightbats. Despite being amongst the wealthiest, most privileged people in the land, these shrieking

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1500 Empty Rooms in MIQ Shows Government’s Poor Planning

1500 Empty Rooms in MIQ Shows Government’s Poor Planning

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT welcomes the news that migrant families who have been cruelly separated for far too long will be reunited, but 1500 empty MIQ rooms shows there’s no reason both them and desperately needed workers can’t be here now,” says ACT Leader David

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The Death of a Town: Part Two

The Death of a Town: Part Two

April 16th, 2021. My last letter from the North was about the death of a town. I have just received the results of the quarterly regional economic survey for the southwestern region. It underlines how deep the recession is and the future doesn’t look good for St. Austell and

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Bigtime Wakeup Call

Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and

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Amazon Deal a Vote of Confidence in NZ Film Sector

National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says Amazon’s announcement that they will make films and TV series in New Zealand is a vote of confidence in our entertainment and film production industry. Mr McClay is calling on the Government to release all advice on the extra economic benefits

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Labour Preferred by Small Business

Labour Preferred by Small Business

A MYOB poll of 401 small to medium businesses has shown that Labour is now the preferred party of SMEs, with 38% favouring Labour and 35% supporting National. A further 5% voted ACT, while 3% supported the Greens. So overall, most businesses favour the left bloc over the right bloc,

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Another Day, Another Garbage Climate Study

Another Day, Another Garbage Climate Study

If the climate change and Wuhan pandemic debacles have taught us anything, it’s that computer modelling is garbage. Shiny, high-tech garbage, but garbage still. Climate models have consistently failed to match the real-world – and they’re getting worse. Pandemic modelling is an embarrassing farce that regularly exaggerates

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Westpac Economist Says You Should Consider Selling Your Rental to Your Tenants

Westpac Economist Says You Should Consider Selling Your Rental to Your Tenants

Westpac economists expect house prices to level out over the rest of this year and expect “moderate” falls in the coming years as longer-term interest rates eventually rise. They also say renters can stop worrying about the prospect of rents rising significantly, despite threats from disgruntled landlords. Acting chief

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