Archive for December, 2008
From a front page article in the Press on Thursday: Despite an estimated $9b of economic stimulus being pumped into the economy from tax cuts and new capital spending, the country’s gross debt is predicted to soar to levels not seen since the Muldoon years of the early 1980s By new capital spending I assume they mean [ READ MORE ]
Back in January, I wrote a short post about Micro-finance, the Grameen Bank, and Kiva, an organisation that also finance micro-loans via micro-investments. Unfortunately, at the time, there was a freeze on investments, so I couldn’t make a small investment on behalf of my sister, as I had planned. Now, though, things are back in full [ READ MORE ]
I finally got around to writing this letter to NZ prime minister John Key as part of Morgue’s “Don’t be a Rodney” campaign. It’s probably a bit long, but, well, I had to get that all off my chest, and the key point is summarized at the end. So far, I’ve only emailed it in, but [ READ MORE ]