Sunday, May 26, 2019

A Baseline for Wellbeing Accounting

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In a scoop, Interest has been made privy to an important advancement in the Wellbeing Accounting space. All wellbeing measures, to be cred...

Millenarial Movements

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The Historian Norman Cohn, in his 1957 book,  The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Midd...
Friday, March 29, 2019

The bitter fruit of the 'Personal is Political'

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Jeffrey Tucker writes that " The attempt to turn every subjectively felt personal issue into a collective cause with a collective a...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

The mathematical futility of long-term climate projections

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The entire climate-prediction edifice as currently promoted, is founded on quicksand, as time-series research at LSE demonstrates - the  Ha...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Zoning Causes Commutes

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 "We must strive to provide employment close to where people live” Parfitt (of Auckland Council) says. “Long commutes place a huge, unp...

Christianity and Islam - the differences

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The difference between the Christian and Islamic systems is that the former has had a Reformation, and the latter hasn't. During the co...
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...