Guest Author • May 11, 2020 •
Murray Sherwin The die is cast. We won’t see the official numbers for quite a while, but it is already apparent that New Zealand is headed into the sharpest and deepest recession in 100 years. We know we will experience unemployment at, and perhaps above, levels not seen since the late 1980s, company failures and large income losses across the … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Feb 26, 2013 •
The Dominion Post leads off with a story about a Fairfax Media-Ipsos poll: And the snapshot makes for grim reading: More than half (54.1 per cent) say New Zealand was a better place to live in 2003 than now. Almost 12 per cent were undecided or could not say. The article then throws some numbers around, [...] … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Jan 27, 2013 •
Blogging is often just mouthing off in public. Informed, well constructed mouthing off, to be sure. Which means that the accuracy is about that of all forms of mouthing off — hit or miss. So it is with pleasure that I report that the Government finally agrees with me. Two years ago, I explained that [...] … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Oct 02, 2012 •
Two television advertisements have caught my attention. One ad by itself would just be an anecdote. Two ads, well, you can draw a line through two ads, and then you start to wonder whether to extrapolate or not. In one for Countdown, we see the Coleman family at a crossroads. We’ve been watching them happily [...] … Read More