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Over in the US of A the Senate has just passed Biden's Covid stimulus bill. The bill, which allows for stimulus payments of $1.9 trillion and which provides welcome although very modest payments to American citizens, was opposed at every turn by the Republicans, even…
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So, you want to buy your first home? Firstly, congratulations! You have joined or will join the large but slowly shrinking team of rational Kiwis who think ahead and look at the future. Indeed, why toil away your life paying dead money into somebody else’s…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn on the recently published results of a two year UBI experiment in the United States, More evidence that UBIs work The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others,…
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This post will involve an interesting segway. First of all sugar is evil. It is fine in small amounts but the corporates have worked out that it helps sell their products. They have spent a few decades working out the optimal amount of sugar in…
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I’m fully on record that New Zealand should resist China’s authoritarian ways, and U.S. President Biden should too. But it’s all in how he does it. President Biden is clear there’s a new attitude from his CBS interview on February 7th saying that the two…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Another chapter of dirty politics has reached its conclusion with Carrick Graham offering an abject apology to Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook for smearing their reputation via the Whaleoil website. I wrote about this case in 2017: Spare a thought for poor Cameron…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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At risk of Anglo-Saxon adverbs leaping out, it was still great to see our Great and Good business titans putting out an invitation to the government to "set a clear path out of Covid-19". What they sought was, and I quote: The status of New…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Richard Heinberg writes about foundational capital and growth capital, and what we should be doing with both in the coming climate, ecological, economic and social crises. Reposted from Post Carbon Institute David Fleming, the late British economist, contributed many blazing insights; one that’s captivated my…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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