I’ve gotten to the point where I cringe whenever I hear the word ‘war’. Even when it’s used to seemingly combat something noble sounding such as the war on poverty or the war on hunger. It’s become apparent that all wars cause damage no matter if it’s a figurative war […]
Poverty
Woolworths New Zealand’s underlying profit margins have increased much faster than the cost of food for the past three years. Australian-owned Woolworths, which operates Countdown supermarkets locally, said the results were due to improved efficiency, but the Green Party said an investigation into supermarket pricing is overdue and the industry […]
An embarrassing blunder has revealed the Government’s original intention to keep a crucial Treaty of Waitangi clause out of legislation required for state asset sales. The information appeared in the draft of a key document that appeared on the Treasury’s website yesterday for a few minutes before it was taken […]
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Although most of us tend to have more “things” than we need, there is often a temptation to hang onto things well beyond their naturally depleted usefulness. A quick survey of what goes into people’s rental storage units is a fine example. Often, the goods stored in these rental units […]
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The financial world seems to have adopted the idea that things will somehow work themselves out in Europe. I don’t know if it’s because people don’t like to think about negative things or if someone sent out a memo to everyone that math doesn’t exist or count in Europe, but […]
In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes. The truth is that the global elite are hiding an […]