How Labour can win the 2023 election
Labour can’t win by being a neo-liberal lite version of National. The market economy fails and is failing and it…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Understanding economics. Part 5 – the politics of inflation
Part 1 here: Part 2 here: Part 3 here: Part 4 here: Inflation is a real problem. For salary and…
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Understanding economics. Part 4 – Private enterprise fails
Part 1 here: Part 2 here: Part 3 here: Perhaps the greatest transformational invention of capitalism is the freedom giving…
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Understanding economics. Part 3 – Economics to indoctrinate.
Part 1 here: Part 2 here: The Financial crash of 2008 and the climate crises is proof market theories of…
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Marx’s theory explains capitalism’s business cycle and the need for crises (Marx’s crisis theory 4 out of 4)
Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Marx’s theory explains the business cycle and the need for crises – no alternative…
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Marijuana Media: Changes will shake up New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis sector
Dust off your plans to grow medical cannabis because changes are coming, prohibition still sucks, and good news in Minnesota…
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What is money and how it can be controlled (Marx’s Crisis Theory Part 3 0f 4)
Part 1: Part 2: Part 4: Three types of money are in existence – Gold, credit money and token money…
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Understanding Economics. Part 2 – Economic amnesia; our forgotten history
Part 1 here: The past indicates what to try or avoid in the future to grow wealth. A brief…
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Opting Out Of The Coalition Of Containment
RIGHT NOW, New Zealand is in a very awkward geopolitical position. Heedless of its vital economic relationship with China, the…
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Understanding Economics – Part 1 – Fear is the key
Left wing people, and lots of middle class voters, are scared of economics because it seems unpredictable, it’s full of…