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Idea cherry picking equals incoherent policy framework
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The Government’s thirst for working groups to consider contentious policy issues has the benefit of opening public access to the debate, but scope restrictions handed down to create bias in working group reports, and the Government’s cherry picking of the proposals is building an ever more incoherent economic policy framework. As a Savings Working Group is commissioned the interaction...


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Compulsory Superannuation is a must
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News that the Government is considering making Kiwisaver compulsory and that there is some talk of cross-party agreement is positive for many New Zealand businesses in need of capital. Much of the controversy over foreign ownership of New Zealand assets has occurred because of the lack of capital available here. The combination of high interest rates, a bad savings record and asset price...


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A Cracker from Paul Holmes
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Paul Holmes in full cry, good on him, we need to open wide the leadership and policy debate - how anyone came look at what we have and claim "worlds best practice" is either blinkered or compromised.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10666087&ref=rss

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Better Pricing Structures.
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A good one from Mckinsey Quartely:

http://www.johnwalley.co.nz/files/Pricing1.pdf

“Well-managed companies already recognize the critical role pricing plays in driving performance. A foundation that underpins excellence in pricing is the key to realizing its potential.”


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Kiwi Made - yeah right.
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Another headline where the origins of products are implied or claimed but they are not what they seem. Prokiwi International seems as Kiwi as - but no so. See:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10664906&ref=rss

We see it all the time,...


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Social (Peer to Peer) Lending comes to New Zealand
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With the financial upheavals in the world the advent of social lending has grown somewhat under the radar of most people. In the USA www.prosper.com and www.lendingclub.com have grown quickly followed by www.zopa.co.uk in the United Kingdom.


In a world where...


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OCR Neutral at 5%?
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http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/opinion-why-moving-ocr-5-wont-hurt-our-economic-recovery

I think the strange notion of a fixed “neutral” rate was pretty much dealt to on the thread.


Taking an overview might be worth a minute. Yes we need to resist inflation, yes...


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Response to Roelof...
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Sorry this has taken a while have been distracted. Picking up on your post in reverse order:


“Have the world’s Central Banks done a good job? Are there some very serious flaws in the western world’s monetary system?”

I think the answer to the first is no, and yes to the second – how could it be otherwise when you rightly say:


“…the...


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Black Swans and Redundant Systems
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The best selling economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that we can’t make the world financial system immune to shocks –– but we can make sure it’s much more robust by building randomness into our planning.

http://www.johnwalley.co.nz/files/Beware those Black Swans1.pdf


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All debt is not bad...
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Debt is not a problem if borrowed for investment and the investment returns a better rate than the real cost of the money. That is called growth.

If however if real investment return (that is the return before fiscal subsidy) is less than the real cost of money growth can only happen as a result of asset appreciation – such growth is an illusion, or more accurately a...


tags: debt, growth