Fast-food outlets seem to be among the few businesses prospering at the moment. Incidentally, what's the point of telling people they should eat more healthy food when they are increasingly unable to afford to buy it? (The above cartoon is from the...
Topics: diet, fast food, recession

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I'm surprised that anyone still remembers the "Jobs Summit" of February 27, 2009. I had to go to the New Zealand Herald to refresh my memory. Here is part of what I found: "A nine-day working fortnight, an investment fund worth...
Topics: jobs, jobs summit, recession, unemployment

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On June 11, the Reserve Bank kept the official cash rate at 2.50 per cent, prompting the above cartoon in the June 12 edition of the Manawatu Standard. Looking at movements in the rate during the past few years, it's hard to believe that, between...
Topics: interest rates, OCR, official cash rate

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"Here at Loaded Web we are trying to be the first purely geo-based blog directory. This means we want to organize blogs primarily by geography - where the blogger is from. "So we have to grow slowly but surely - first [covering] countries we...

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As New Zealand founders on the rocks of debt, Prime Minister John Key, right, jettisons the Cullen (superannuation) Fund, while Finance Minister Bill English jettisons the promised tax cuts. Oh well, those surpluses were nice while they lasted. (The...
Topics: Bill English, debt, John Key, superannuation, tax cuts

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