MEDIAWATCH – Damien Venuto surprised free market capitalism cheerleaders might be wrong
Are media cheerleaders ignoring cracks in New Zealand’s economy? Rising unemployment, weak retail and stalled infrastructure suggest deeper trouble.
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Economy in meltdown and the broken privatisation experiment never more apparent – so why is NZ Left floundering?
Rising unemployment, collapsing public services, and growing inequality expose New Zealand as a failed privatisation experiment — and raise hard questions for the Left.
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BOOM! Inflation jumps to 3.1%. Where’s your ‘green shoots’ champagne now, Liam Dann?
Well, well, well. What do we have here? Price inflation rises to 3.1%, above the Reserve Bank’s target range New…
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Fonterra Brand Sale Sparks Greenpeace Backlash
Greenpeace slams Fonterra’s $4.2b brand sale, citing water pollution, methane emissions and climate impacts from intensive dairying.
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PSA Backs CTU Plan for Labour Law Reform
PSA supports the CTU’s New Deal for Workers, calling for Fair Pay Agreements, automatic union membership and stronger labour protections.
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Alliance Slams Labour’s CGT as Too Weak
The Alliance Party criticises Labour’s leaked Capital Gains Tax plan, calling for a wealth tax, FTT and full overhaul ahead of Election 2026.
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Ummmm – I don’t want to interrupt your MAFS/Batchelor NZ viewing or virus criticism is xenophobic virtue signalling , but the Markets just shat themselves…
We are getting suspended markets now – that’s a flashing warning sign – I think shit is rapidly unwinding at a speed Governments are barely responding to.
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Dow Jones crashes down 603points on Wuhan Virus fears and the grim reality of Trump’s Amerika
Dow Jones crashing down 600 points on Wuhan virus fears, Trump’s fecklessness, Sanders radicalism and the market realising Trump’s China deal was meaningless.
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The coming economic crisis, “unorthodox” monetary policy, and Donald Trump
A new surge in the price of gold in US dollars would force the Federal Reserve to reverse course and start hiking interest rates and reversing easing once more. Trump would then have the choice of firing the Federal Reserve and forcing his changes, as he hinted at doing in late 2018, or having an election-year recession. This would provoke a political and economic crisis of historic proportions.
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Over heated US economy & Trumps China trade war, Italian economic suicide & the geopolitics of Iranian oil – the ingredients of the next crash?
With Trump claiming China is attempting to interfere in the upcoming mid term elections, the speed with which mistakes could compound ignorance and collapse the entire house of cards is higher than ever before.
