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| Last Updated: Aug 15th, 2008 - 11:26:43 |
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2004 Newsletters
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29 June 2004
Ronald Reagan - American Politician 1979
I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.
Jun 15, 2004, 17:42
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29 June 2004
Are we too Small and Remote?
In 1970 New Zealand and Iceland were both equal in the world wide wealth stakes - around 17th. Some of my friends have argued that New Zealand is a small, remote island with few resources and that therefore it is not surprising that we are not very high up in the world wide wealth stakes. But Iceland is a smaller island, fairly remote and the only resource seems to be fish and geothermal activity. We have more of both and a lot else besides. Also we are not covered in ice and snow most of the time. Read the Iceland story and think about the facts. The abbreviated story is here and more details are on our web site under "Lessons From Other Countries"
Jun 15, 2004, 14:21
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29 June 2004
Forget Statistics Look at These Numbers
One of the problems we have when talking about growth in the economy and how bad we have been doing and how good we should be doing and vice versa it is easy to get led astray by carefully selected statistics which may be true in themselves but hide the whole truth. When we talk about growth we are interested in growth of the economy other than that caused by inflation and this is called "Real GDP". Because we are also interested in every person in New Zealand being wealthier we also want to know the "per Capita" growth. Just bringing in more people will very likely cause GDP to grow but this is not helpful to the current population unless we are all getting wealthier. So here is the basic information about our Real GDP Growth per Capita from 1953 to 2003. You will see that for 25% of the time we actually got poorer as individuals. Combine this with our steady decline down the wealth tables to number 37 in 2000 and we certainly have cause for complaint from previous governments. We aim to help future governments do better. [ Visit Website ]
Jun 4, 2004, 11:01
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