This man is a serial entrepreneur. His latest project has been Xero the accounting system which has revolutionised accounting. He wrote these comments in an article this week in Newsroom: Covid-19 has shown us that we can’t take life or our economic system for granted. We must use the opportunity … [Read more...]
Slave Labour
I visited Italy at the end of last year. What a wonderful place. I really like the Italian’s approach to the Catholic Church. They are baptised, married and buried in the Church. The rest of the time the least they have to do with the Church the better. The town we stayed in was 2300 years old. The … [Read more...]
Greenpeace petition:
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...]
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...]
The Challenge of the Digital Divide
Comments from the Guardian: The pandemic is a powerful reminder of the impact of the digital divide. It is building the case for treating internet access as a public utility: an essential service that needs to be properly regulated and buttressed by the state. In the UK, the government and … [Read more...]
Addressing the virus, an article by Bill Gates:
This was an interesting article in the Washington Post written by Bill Gates, who has had considerable experience with pandemics through the Gates Foundation. If you look at his list of three actions to take NZ has really got two correct and the third is beyond a small country like NZ. Or is it? … [Read more...]
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