It comes from the Reserve Bank and if you look at the vertical blue stripes you will see that Household Debt in New Zealand is rising.It’s now about 170% of Nominal Disposable Income – so we are spending a lot more than we are earning.
THC and CBD are the two most famous cannabinoids found in the Marijuana plant (popularized as Cannabis sativa). However, the…
The SIS has been causing grief to some foreign students by delaying or denying visas on the grounds that their research could help produce weapons of mass destruction. It has been happening for years but we have never been told publicly how any New Zealand course of study is making it easier to produce WMDs, or what students are involved.
To deny prisoners the right to vote is a blight on universal suffrage and a means of amputating the civic conscience from a citizen, truly making them a prisoner from political society.
The latest Listener (Nov 10) proclaims “Fresh moves to raise the age of super to 67”. I like the Listener but this article is at best misleading.
Controversial Opinion: The Democrats actually kinda *lost* yesterday’s US Midterms.
I’m gambling with my leadership
“Court Gavel” (Public Domain) by bestlawdir If the Bitcoin boom of 2017 taught investors anything, it’s that not everything that glitters is worth…
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VERY LITTLE on this earth can match the agony of being trapped inside your own skin. To be aware that you are not what those whose opinions you respect wanted you to be. Your parents, your family, your pastor, your teachers, your boss, your friends: all of them at one time or another believed in you; thought you had what it took to succeed. Except you didn’t succeed, you failed. You are not a winner, you’re a loser. A loser trapped inside his own skin.