Last Updated: Nov 19th, 2009 - 11:07:39 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Thought for the Day Prior to the last election the ACT party proposed 20 ways of improving the growth rate of our economy. Our new government has hosted a growth improvement session with a range of community leaders and has arrived at 20 different ways of improving our growth rate. We will be examining these in the months ahead but in the meantime we wonder what difference they will make in the face of the biggest downturn in the history of the world. The world press is now pondering these same questions. Our first article explains exactly how REAL Economics works. If we can but understand this theory we can see it being played out in front of us on the world stage. A fascinating sight. Apr 24, 2009, 11:46 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Ending the Monetary Fiasco — Returning to Sound Money Every now and again comes an article of such power and relevance that it deserves serious attention by all people wishing to understand why our world is descending into monetary madness and to learn how to avoid the hardship such descent imposes on the populace. This is such an article: [ Visit Website ] Apr 23, 2009, 11:00 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Sociopaths in Charge When you have seen this interview you will understand better why our paper based money system is such a problem to us. Regulations didn't save the world from the worst recession(?) since 1930 and regulations won't stop it from happening again. Only a money system using gold 100% has the integrity to stop greedy people in high places from using the system to become very wealthy and in the process impoverishing the vast majority. It is just human nature! [ Visit Website ] Apr 21, 2009, 10:10 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Opportunities of a Lifetime: Lessons for New Zealand from New High-Growth Economies Stephen Jennings is the founder of the Moscow-based Renaissance Group including Renaissance Capital - the leading investment bank in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and sub-Saharan Africa. Born and schooled in Taranaki, he studied business and economics at Massey and Auckland, before joining the New Zealand Treasury. Later he worked with Credit Suisse First Boston before founding Renaissance Capital in Moscow in 1995. Today he is ranked by London’s Financial News as among the top 100 most influential people in European capital markets and has been described by a fellow banker as the only foreign oligarch in Russia. The NZ Business Round Table invited him over to give this year's Sir Ronald Trotter lecture. Amongst many other things he had this to say: "My personal assessment is that as a society we are drifting away from this type of hard-nosed common sense reasoning; to put it politely we are becoming too inclined to believe our own myths. We are more likely to move forward if we talk about why the World Economic Forum ranks New Zealand 51st for burden of government; 67th for the extent and effect of taxation and 90th for hiring and firing practices." Read the full speech here: [ Visit Website ] Apr 20, 2009, 14:04 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Stabilising at a Low Level As Japan went so goes the whole world? Is our destiny a long slow decline? It depends how long it takes for the excess money issued as cheap debt to be "cleaned up". Apr 17, 2009, 10:06 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Market Manipulation Figures in Economic War Game The truth is stranger than fiction! Apr 14, 2009, 12:29 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 In Uncertain Times, All That Glisters is a Gold Standard The world is waking up! People are discovering Greenspan's article written in 1966 about gold as money. We sent it round a few years ago and it is now going the rounds of the finance industry. Alan Greenspan says it very well. Apr 14, 2009, 12:14 Newsletters : 2009 Newsletters : 24 April 2009 Quote for the Week "Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta Apr 10, 2009, 11:54