This came into my email this week from Greenpeace: I’ve just signed a petition calling on the NZ Govt to adopt The Green Covid Response, a green economic stimulus response to the Covid-19 crisis. The government is poised to inject billions into the economy to smooth the impact of the … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 21 April 2020
The quantity of humour which has emerged from “bubbles” around the world has been fantastic. Thanks to dave Adamson for our musical interludes. The first came out of somewhere in New Zealand. Frustrated with Zoom - watch this from the Police - fantastic … [Read more...]
Garry’s reading from around the world this week:
From the New York Times: But in trying to destroy the administrative state — in trying to make government small enough to “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub” — conservatives left the country vulnerable to a deadly disease that has undermined that project and galvanized its … [Read more...]
This Week 14 April 2020
Never Waste a Good Crisis:Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 4.45 for 5pm start Tuesday 14 April Come at 4.45 if you would like a chance to catch with with folk https://zoom.us/j/95404731553?pwd=TmM3L2Q3TnNTL1B2UmMxSHQ2bktnQT09 Meeting ID: 954 0473 1553 Password: 309594 We are on … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 14 April 2020
Like every part owner of a small business we are sitting anxiously wondering when the lock down will be over. It was instructive to listen to the Steven Moe’s interview with Shamubeel Eaqub about economics. This is a philosophical discussion about the real reasons for an economy. As I listened to … [Read more...]
7 April on Zoom
Last week we had another decent turnout of Tuesday Club members attending the Zoom lesson taken by David Bennett and Rosemary Neave. After a little hiccup at the start where we had a bit of a Monty Python session where we all had to hang up and start again. When David said something like “this … [Read more...]
Sam Hunt
I love Sam Hunt. He’s always viewed society from the edge. Here is a wonderful interview with him in Newsroom. I particularly liked this poem. It summarises our lives: When the house iswarm, when there’s peace,the old spiritswhile you’re sleeping, return. In the morningyou notice a … [Read more...]
The planning needed for our economy post Covid-19:
As a society we need to think Regionally about how we kick start our economy. Our region is firstly Canterbury; and then the South Island. We will easily be forgotten by big demanding Auckland insisting that it must be front of the line. All politicians will rush to appease Auckland and surrounding … [Read more...]
Continuing the review of Banks:
The Aussie banks, which trade in New Zealand, were found guilty of all sorts of dishonest activities in Australia at the Royal Commission set up to study them. With any small businesses, if the Directors had faced such serious charges they would be in court, and quite possibly imprisoned. No … [Read more...]
Steven Moe’s latest interview: this time with Shamubeel Eaqub:
I really like Shamubeel. He talks about economics in a way anybody can understand. http://seeds.libsyn.com/shamubeel-eaqub-on-the-impact-of-covid-19-and-what-foundations-we-should-build-on-for-the-future Shamubeel is one of New Zealand's leading economists so this interview provides a … [Read more...]
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