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.
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The 3 real reasons why business confidence in NZ is plummeting
Based on the low threshold of fear that it takes for business confidence to dry up in NZ – things like eclipses, women voting and Maori with PHDs would have to be banned for NZ Business to feel confident.
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Moment Liam Dann realised his ‘Don’t Panic’ column last month may have been optimistic
For the last decade, to avoid the horror of systemic financial market collapse in 2007/2008, $30Trillion has been printed and pumped into the global economy falsely creating the lowest inflation rates for 5000 years. That seems about as far removed from the concept of sound market fundamentals as The AM Show is from intellectual curiosity.
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What will crash first? The economy or the environment?
Both the economy and the environment need each other to survive in a complex society, but if both are now failing and pulling the other down, new paradigms have to be imagined and imagined soon.
