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    Dispelling the ‘Mum and Dad investors’ myth - by frog



    One of Bill English’s favourite lines is ‘Mum and Dad investors’ that he uses whenever he wants to try to tie the concerns of everyday people to the fortunes of, say, Telecom or South Canterbury Finance. We must do such-and-such because if we do not, the numerous hard working Mum and Dad investors of NZ [...] read more
    September 21, 2010 1:06 pm - 46 Comments
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    15% organic by 2015 - by frog



    One of the cornerstone policy points of the recently released Green Agriculture Policy is for New Zealand to be 15% organic by 2015. This may seem ambitious to some, but with the size of the world market, New Zealand´s entire national output could be organic and it would be a small player. So fears that [...] read more
    October 26, 2008 8:57 pm - 19 Comments
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    National’s super investment plan - by frog



    You can see why National held back on announcing policy for so long.  Once you see it a lot of it is hardly the sort of thing they would want to be mentioning when they’re out there trying to win support and votes.  Even their tax policy, which was supposed to be the stead that [...] read more
    October 16, 2008 11:13 am - 29 Comments
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    Invest in recycling - by frog



    Someone just sent me this obviously viral email: If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 [...] read more
    September 26, 2008 1:16 pm - No Comments
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    NZ Inc. continues to invest in cluster bombs - by frog



    This is old news but deserves a fresh look given that NZ will host an international conference to ban them next week in Wellington! “It is blatant hypocrisy for the New Zealand Government on the one hand to take dividends from the manufacture of cluster bombs while on the other hand to call for the [...] read more
    February 14, 2008 3:32 pm - 14 Comments