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New Zealand – Economic Capital of The World (1/12)
New Zealand’s days as a manufacturer of goods and dairy are well and truly numbered. The high cost and low margins are simply not sustainable. This is a twelve part series exploring what New Zealand might be able to do with strong leadership an...
Dealing With Mr. Big
Masters. They are everywhere. We work our lives through a series of encounters with them. Regardless of whether you are a person in power, sometimes your life will collide with a master, and how you deal with that encounter determines the rest of you...
Kiwis tax debt soars to $4b – may double in five years
Tax. It’s a word that often instills emotion. Particularly if you are speaking to a small business owner. There are two distinct camps here in New Zealand. Well three if you include those that just don’t give a damn about anything. The f...
NZ Budget 2009
The major points and funding allocations from the 2009 Budget delivered today follow: THE UNWASHED * Super Fund contributions suspended: The Government will suspend automatic contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. A contribution of $2...
Statutory Minimum Redundancy Entitlements
Labour’s Darien Fenton wants employers to provide the following in the event of redundancy: four weeks pay for first twelve month’s service two weeks for every additional year up two a maximum of twenty six weeks four weeks notice There...
Fiscal Attitude: Death versus Life
How much does the world spend on “better” ways to kill people? Trillions of dollars every years. Yet people in Mumbai, or Wellington, or Madrid die every day for one simple reason. Lack of timely communication. Imagine an international, a...
10 years jail for a blog post
I really feel for Suwicha Thakhor. He made a comment about the monarch of Thailand, and now has ten long years in a Thai jail to look forward to. As I actually intend to visit Thailand one day, I guess I am going to have to be a little bit careful as...
5 on Monday
Welcome to this week’s 5 on Monday. February is nearly over, and there is only a few weeks left of day light savings. So, what was notable last week: not having a Tax debt is a wonderful feeling after so long section 92a brought people to fight fo...
“Three Strikes” Law
New Zealand is in the process of revamping part of our legal system, particularly around repeat offenders. The “Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill”, currently being introduced for consideration, includes the Act party’s “three ...
‘mortgaging our children’
Sir Roger has recently offered a plan to save Government from ‘mortgaging our children’. “New Zealand needs lower spending and lower taxes.” This according to Sir Roger who introduced Rogernomics back in 1984 and continued thr...
Unions reject pay freeze talk
Of course they do. They have no idea what a business owner goes through during tight economic times. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little, who I personally think is a complete fuck wit, said higher wages ...
Snails and Slugs, and oh yes, Israel
NEW Zealand has long been a country that stands for fairness in all international relations. We put sanctions against countries that persecute people based on race or religion, we put sanctions against those regimes that attack democracy. We don̵...
Recession? What Recession?
I have been 48 hours from bankruptcy twice in my life, once in 2003 and once in 1993. In 1993, it was a mear $300 cash that saved me. It is interesting that there are ten years between the two incidents. I also find it interesting that my credit ...
