Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Angelo M Codevilla on the new American Revolution

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Two articles, both by Angelo M. Codevilla, both in a distinctly elegiac tone regarding the fate of the USA. His core theory is that a revol...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Tertiary Funding

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In answer to a question about why SIT needs an Auckland branch... The zero fees model (I was there at the inception) depended on the orig...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A Fly on the Wall of the 9th floor...

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An imagined Fly-on-the-wall conversation:  The PM and the FM. PM:  Granters, I've just come back from talking to those Teachers.  Can...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Gubmint tax-funded balm tor spiritual cancer

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Contra to Jason's article wherein a weary acceptance of MMP is argued for,  it needs to be recalled that Godzone has no Constitution (un...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Coos, Culls, and the effect on NZ Inc

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Michael Reddell has a good point to make, although the phrase 'gifting' could also be applied to beneficiaries, pensioners, Waiheke ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Government cluelessness about the Time Value of Money

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The issue with Gubmint large-scale anything which has to be built physically (as opposed to redistributed with a hefty ticket-clip) is that...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Christchurch CBD - lack of development therein

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.. a lot of people financially lost businesses as business interruptions claims often are not successful. Therein lies a tale. Folks who ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Budget Exclusions = Holes....

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Unfunded or uncertain or pure Exclusions - listed without comment.....Page numbers are from the HYEFU . New TV station P71  Conservation...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Free Tertiary Education

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As a former CFO (although we had no such lofty titles in them days) of a major Polytech, I saw the effects of dragging entire cohorts of unp...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Chasing down the BOM's

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This post was prompted by a plaintive cry of vehicles which are "manufactured almost entirely without human input, sold online with no...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Awkland housing - the Ongoing Stooory

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Awkland Architects will have a perfect insider's view as all of this unfolds. I think (despite my VRWC tendencies) that the whole Awklan...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Ah, GST, I hardly Knew ye....

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While the Rate of GST is excluded from the ToR, Exemptions from it are evidently not. And from the loose lips of several pollies over recent...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

How TLA Rates are arrived at

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TLA's are greedy, but cunning with it. The steps to TLA budgets (I've coded the rules and relationships into a very few of the cubes...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Lab-rat once more...

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Well, Godzone is yet again the Social Lab-Rat: Vastly increased minimum wage will test the wage costs/employment offerings/inflation balan...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Prefab impediments

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The hurdles for prefab builds include: The need for a 10-year build guarantee (IIRC) by the prefabber, with associated insurance and bac...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

That 'Free market' in housing

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I think it's more likely though that the market will be left to its own devices Wishful thinking - it's never been a free market...
Monday, September 18, 2017

New Zealand - a chain of systempunkts

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The sad fact is that NZ, as a long, thin, and increasingly poor country, is just chocka with what John Robb terms 'systempunkts' - ...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Living Wage madness and the BOM explosion

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The LW proposal, applied to indirect staff, runs headlong into the bill-of-materials-explosion issue.  An illustration: The policy:  ev...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Getting stuff Built

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David Hargreaves writes : If you can't make builders put a spade in the ground, and the bankers give them the money, it ain't going...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

GST - the itch to impose differential rates of tax

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The common taters who itch to Fiddle with GST need a reality check. Changing the overall rate is something of a mission, but do-able: the ch...