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Monthly Archive: February 2009
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Feb
28
2009
Scepticism, values, and the “blog brand”
There is one thing I would like to make clear to people when they read our posts – we are sceptical people. Even so, I like to think we are equally cynical about government and private institutions when we discuss things. On top of that – we often try to put our scepticism to one …
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Feb
27
2009
Where’s the issue?
One of the two key proposals of the job summit is to institute a nine day fortnight for manufacturing workers. Presumably the idea is to increase the flexibility of working hours and thus increase the number of people in employment. The obvious question is, ‘what is the market failure here?’ Employers and employees are free …
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Feb
27
2009
Cynical on the job summit: So sue us!
I realise today that we came off as cynical about the job summit. Jobs are important, and there are issues that businesses and the economy have to work through. However, the type of discussion we saw through the Herald today was not the sort of thing that we were hoping for: The biggest issue seems …
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Feb
27
2009
Cycleway or Hydroslide?
One of the more interesting ideas to come out of the jobs summit is a cycleway across the whole country, I find this comment on the stuff article to be particularly insightful:) If you’re looking for ideas with tourist potential, I think a hydroslide the length of NZ has much more potential than a boring …
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Feb
27
2009
More suggestions …
And some more … Other ideas include: * $10,000 interest free loans to new house buyers; * Government-funded crisis managers to help companies in strife; * A fund from the sale of government bonds to add liquidity to the consumer finance market; * Tax holidays for struggling businesses; and * The Government offering loan guarantees …
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