Economissive
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One of NZ's premier economists - TVNZ | Fantastic public service in tweeting - Crown solicitor | A boring Lefty - Newstalk ZB listener Te Ātiawa | Ngāti Rāhiri
Joined July 2013
Wow. I hope some of these economists are smart and charismatic.
Also 👀👀👀 for tomorrow with economists releasing their own modelling on the revenue from foreign buyers tax.
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Here's the Government complying with the Official Information Act once, at least. #MeetingArderned.CC: @2dopeteenz @GeorgeTimg88
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Wellington Paranormal is so smart, especially when tackling serious matters (police brutality in this case)
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@Jasonwalls92 @_chloeswarbrick That speech has so much. Swarbrick: "In the year 2050, I will be 56 years old.".Shaw:
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Helen White and Emma Mellow split the conservative vote allowing Swarbrick to come through the middle.
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@ottrTweets @shiamuz "years later". Shane and Lori was weeks later at most which is much worse (with a strong hint something was happening pre apocalypse).
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Luxon on Morning Report:. "I'm going to respect other parties and negotiations and that's why I'm not ruling in or out a referendum on the Treaty". "Yes, we will be going ahead with tax cuts (subject to econ conditions)". Interesting what falls under 'respect' and what doesn't.
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Wheels falling off ACT's candidate selection. Where is the party president during all of this?.
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The real election bribes:
“Free” dental is a cynical bribe from a party desperately trying to cling onto power.
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A lot of people complaining about Jason Walls and how he sucks as a journalist, but it takes a lot of hard work to dumb yourself down to be Barry Soper's eventual replacement.
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Kris Faafoi: "I can't control Sam Morgan's feelings on a day-to-day basis". Incredible burn.
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Good morning. A statement from me on some of the response to our analysis of National's Foreign Buyer Tax. A statement from me only, and not necessarily wholly endorsed by @NickGoodall_CL or @MHReddell though they may wish to jump in with their thoughts.
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Mike Hosking: "Why are we using up all these tests if they keep coming back negative?".
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Helen White is still asking Chloe Swarbrick to withdraw.
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Did you know that a CGT would raise a total of $11.7 billion in just its first six years?.
With the usual suspects and a few new friends once again beating the drum for a capital gains tax, I thought it might be a good time to remind ourselves why we haven’t got one and shouldn’t get one. In the Weekend Herald today
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Man who stands to gain by maybe multiple millions on his seven houses by removing housing intensification minimums thinks a conflict of interest over maybe a few bucks is untenable.
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This cost about half of Luxon's $60 food budget.
Dinner after another day campaigning to rebuild the economy and get our country back on track #chicken
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If there's anyone in Wellington desperate for a place to live / move out from where they are before the lockdown, I will have two furnished rooms free. One is available now, one tomorrow. All rooms at different corners of the house so almost perfect for isolation.
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Re-up.
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"I meet with lobbyists all the time and they know to keep their mouths shut".
Over the past year, I’ve been asked why I don’t hold regular meetings with the CTU. Today shows why. I meet with people all the time, they just don’t hold press conferences afterwards … 🤨.
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@m_h_lumber The double finger should be retired as an insult in the same way Michael Jordan retired the no. 23. It's just going to feel wrong to use it again after this peak.
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TVNZ's political editor on Morning Report: "we've been encouraging Luxon to do more photo ops". What?.
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Sam Morgan telling me to panic. Mike Hosting telling me there's nothing to worry about. I don't know which obscenely rich blowhard to believe.
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2 things almost every politician will come together to achieve:.1. cleaning each others' billboards.2. protecting their housing assets from falling house prices even when it means perpetuating homelessness and a redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. It's heartwarming.
'We shouldn't be taking sides': Political candidate repairs rival's defaced billboard
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You released personal information about beneficiaries in order to shame them, sanctioned them into destitution, and your successors want to do the same. But, ok, let's be polite.
Hey tweeters. Breathe. It’s ok. Our great country will keep being great. Some are hurt. Some are tired & hurt. I’ve been there. But it’s gonna be ok. The nasty sh$t is just nasty and unnecessary. Let’s play the next couple of weeks out with a bit of dignity. I include you media.
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GST. But also this is great:
Only 13 per cent of Kiwis support lowering the voting age. The last thing we need is another 120,000 voters who pay no tax voting for more spending and bigger government.
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@sprogmama @jk_rowling sadly, even though I've defended her constantly throughout all this, JK pretends I don't exist. But thank you for the mention!.
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Everyday RNZ has a new story about some pharmaceutical that could be funded. It's hard to know which we should choose. If only there was some independent organisation that could compare them and work out what is best.
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Trump: I told women I will be their protector. They said, ‘Sir, please don’t say that.’ Well I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not
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I reported this nine months ago
Luxon (and Treasury) citing commercial sensitivity reasons are refusing to say that the break fees are about $300 million, but Treasury seems to have already revealed they are going to be about $300 million in public documents. .
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This morning's Morning Report political panel:. "Wellingtonians are upset about the pipes and the level of rates increase".
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What if you live in a single room house with your grandparents and you win a golden ticket to a chocolate factory tour and are gifted a billion dollar business from the murderous owner?.
Ok but what if an orphan saves a box of puppies from a house fire and the grateful owner gives them their lotto ticket and then it wins the $18m jackpot… how much of that hero’s money would james and Marama greedily steal!!?!?.
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"unclear signage"
Bold move by @WgtnCC to hit ratepayers with a flood of bus lane fines just months out from local elections. In April alone, the new Cambridge Terrace camera racked up $15k a day. That stretch can be quite hectic for drivers - busy traffic, unclear signage, and bike & bus lanes.
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I've just done the modelling and this is an almost 10% shortfall on the promised number of pages.
Worth noting National's "32-page document" is only 29 pages - and this is one of them.
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If I was Labour and I wanted to tax obscenely rich landlords, I'd have simply brought in a capital gains tax.
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Ani O'Brien getting an op-ed in the Herald. Has it been taken over by Jim Grenon already?.
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Guy Montgomery is the host of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee.
Name your favorite celebrity fact.
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Ma'am. Your boss couldn't choose between you and Winston.
@PronouncedHare Spare a thought for poor Chris Hipkins. desperately distancing himself from his legacy.
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This Supreme Court judgement seems bad but I'm going to wait until a property lawyer from Palmerston North opines on it.
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This Green Party leadership business is pretty great because every MP has been seriously asked by journalists whether they'll stand and not one of them would seem ridiculous in the role. Trying to imagine the same for Act or even the top 10 in National and Labour.
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This is incorrect. Rental inflation in Auckland across all tenancies (not just new tenancies which is what Bishop is citing) is 3.6% in 2024. Well above overall CPI inflation in Auckland of 1.6%.
This is incorrect. The Rental Price Index (using the flow measure) for Auckland rents is actually down 0.6% since November 2023. Measured by mean using the MBIE Rental Bond Database there’s been a 0.8% increase since Oct 23. Well below inflation.
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@JayLouis @UndraftedJ Yeah man, there was also that bit where the military lied to the team about Japan not being on the verge of surrendering and there being another way.
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RNZ's political editor said there are no downsides to National's sanctions because people who voted National love this kind of stuff. If a journalist can't find, or even imagine, an outcome or angle that could change people's perspectives, they might be in the wrong job.
Here's Luxon saying he believes that someone on the JobSeeker benefit, who has cancer, should still be looking to work 10 hours a week:
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Really hope NZ does not subsidise those that can afford to eat out to eat out as proposed on Morning Report now. How about giving money to people who are skipping meals, eh?.
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Minor party leaders struggle to get airtime on Morning Report while National gets two spots a week:. Luxon, then Willis on to clarify what Luxon said.
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Elsewhere in Newsroom, the director of the NZ Initiative wants you to imagine the plight of a 40 year old who already has $10 million in assets net of liabilities.
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Has Jason Walls spotted the difference between the NZ statement that called for restraint and the other countries which basically told Israel to do what it liked?.
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What if we, by calling for a ceasefire, show ourselves not to be bloodthirsty monsters for nothing?
'Just calling for a ceasefire is not going to make it happen' - National says after Labour announcement
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We're limiting the number of people who can get omicron to 100 people per venue.
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Odd choice to go with a body stance and body language of a boss telling you there's no money for a raise and actually you don't deserve one anyway but if you push yourself just a bit more maybe you'll get one next time
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@TerribleMaps @FrankMcRae Can you make one of those maps where you change the land mass of each country to reflect the relative populations per capita?.
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Michael Wood receiving emails from the Cabinet Office.
@JackyNinjakitty @Nelfoos5 @JoePotterButler @dimsie @hellomotorbike @KyleDChurch I fully understand this. No need for me to read. Thanks though. 💜.
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A bit sad for Matthew Hooton who, in those two months, only got to do a single dirty politics.
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77 year old Richard Prebble resigning because he just found out there are two versions of Treaty.
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What does he mean 'lost money on the apartment relative to the share market'??. Luxon was living in the apartment. You can't live in shares
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That person with name suppression would vote for ACT this election but might not be allowed to next election.
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So, we're going to stop recognising countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, and the UK?.
NZ PM Luxon went on to argue there isn’t a “functioning government” in Palestine to recognise.
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If you own more houses than there have been National Party leaders in the last 4 years, you own too many houses.
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Turns out it's ok to question politicians about their religious beliefs and what kinds of policies that might bring in.
From the Nats & NZ First agreement:."Refocus the curriculum on academic achievement and not ideology, including the removal and replacement of the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines.".
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Efeso was a kind man. Rare enough in politics. Rarer still how he not only considered advice, but sought it out. From big issues around homosexuality and trans law, to smaller issues like council finances which I was blessed to be regularly consulted about. An incredibly sad day.
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Some MPs shifting uncomfortably as the current speaker calls for an immediate lifting of the refugee quota. Only James Shaw nodding.
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Gareth Morgan on 21 March. There had been 11 new cases the day before. And Gareth Morgan on 12 April. There had been 18 new cases the day before.
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Interesting to note that Bart was the only person to run the story of how Todd Smells. in the entire country. Makes you think about what other stories aren’t being covered.
Interesting to note that yesterday ACT issued a press release regarding the Auckland Museum and I was the only person to run the story … in the entire country. Makes you think about what other stories aren’t being covered.
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Iona Pannett just claimed ("I did a quick calculation of your rent" that @RebeccaJEmm's $65 rent in 1990 would be $463 now just due to general inflation. This is massively wrong. It would be $143. Pannett actually looked at housing inflation (which councils have caused!)
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How are Luxon's houses not a bigger conflict than Wood's shares??
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A bunch of people confused as to why, in a pandemic, sickness benefits might rise and why economic uncertainty, from a pandemic and rising interest rates, would see fewer people being employed full time and so on jobseeker. Economists are very bad at their jobs.
Article doesn’t have latest stats. 11.5% of working age population (1 in 8.7) receive a benefit up from 11.0% last year. 15k rise. Work ready +4600. Health condition +6000. Supporter living payment +2100. Sole parent +1800. An economic AND social issue.
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@simonjbridges I don't know what true proportions are, but for the sake of argument, suppose that 5% of pills are bad and testing reduces this to 1%, then total pill consumption would need to increase 400% to increase harm. You should reconsider.
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The benefit-cost ratio for this project is around 0.3. You could take the money, set 70% of it on fire, and gift the rest of it at random to people and it would have the same economic and social value.
This is what happens when you cut 5 billion from the state highway budget.
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This is what Karl Tiefenbacher thinks Cuba Street should look like.
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RNZ: "some parts of NZ are seeing vitality in their housing markets". And once again what RNZ calls 'vitality' is rising prices, not more houses.
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Have I got this straight?:. Lying about the number of flatmates you had, decades before you became an MP, so that you have enough money to feed your child means you can't serve in an Ardern Cabinet. but spying on journalists while you're the Deputy PM means you can?.
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Multiple Government (National) MPs including the PM and Finance Minister saying migrants are stealing jobs. And now a Government (NZ First) MP engaging in climate change denial. Actually shocking stuff.
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Michelle Boag: "it's always going to be difficult for any new leader in this Covid19 situation". Didn't they get enough p,, ractice with Covids 1 through 18?.
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One of the final messages from the crew of the Titan submersible before it imploded has been revealed during a hearing:. “All good here.”
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I've seen losers on NZ Twitter pay for the Twitter blue. I've seen bigger losers pay for Twitter blue but hide their blue tick. We have a new king of the losers here.
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Got to tell Mike Hosking he was wrong live on air this morning. Fulfilling a desire of mine I didn't realise I had until this morning.
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Lisa Owen: "Prisoners get 60 cents an hour for work. Is it slave labour when food and accommodation is free". You know who else got free food and accommodation? Slaves.
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The difference between National and Briscoes is that the Briscoe Group have a properly audited set of accounts
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@NicoleMckeeMP @GraemeEdgeler Tame explicitly covers this response 4 mins in. 1. Paula Bennett cannot recall you ever raising the issue. 2. You say it was outside the TOR (though not explicitly excluded according to Tame), yet claim you raised it repeatedly. .
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