Chief Stipe

Yawn!

You are starting to sound more and more like an academic. Cindy needs you!.

So what? You're obsessed with bagging Key. Focus on the here and now! Fortress NZ was first described and planned by Professor Michael Baker et al in 2018!!! Cindy bought it hook line and sinker! Wrecked nothing certainly by comparison to this current mob. Bollocks. Serious headwinds headed our way Shit gets worse - don't tell me you support the Maori Party?!

As is NZ's ability to pay and its ability to sustain global shocks. You watch what happens to inflation when petrol is $3 a litre by Christmas. As for your illiterate rants about Key. I suggest you use your energy to tackle the here, now and future instead of wallowing in blaming the past. Adern has made many promises none of which she has kept. An absolute failure for the country and economy and now failing on Covid. Her only tool in her repertoire is to take away freedoms and democracy.

The Government no longer has any desire to limit spread. The two cases in Northland were people allowed to travel from Auckland. I bet it is the same for the Blenheim case. Actually from Te Awamutu via Rotorua. The cynic in me says they are deliberately seeding the rest of the country to scare people into vaccination. Someone I know travelled from Whangarei through Auckland to Wellington, ferry to Picton and then onto Nelson and back again last week. All allowed and legit.

It's not an exaggeration. The amount is fact. How else you describe QE? The purchase of Government debt bonds by the Reserve Bank with funds they created that have no links to real assets! Printed albeit virtual! The debt to GDP ratio was 16% and declining when this Government was elected. It is now ramping quickly past 44% and spiralling upwards. What's more this Government has been surreptitiously purchasing private assets with the printed money further fuelling inflation and property prices. Socialism at its best. You obviously don't keep up with the state of the Government books as you are well out of date. Also you are in dream land if you don't think the Government has to repay the money borrowed through QE.

It was by no means universal agreement. I'd prefer the targeted strategy that Sweden engaged which was per the globally agreed pandemic management strategies prior to Covid-19. That is just like ours was before Ardern lost her head and listened to the modelling idiots. You contradict yourself so readily. A poor economy leads to poor health outcomes. Many many countries in the world are evidence of that. NZ printed $120b in debt to fund consumption when $10b could have fixed our health system and provided 100's more ICU beds. The lack of the latter being the primary bottleneck in our health system prior to Covid-19.

Because New Zealanders don't want to work for low wages in adverse conditions which Filipinos view as luxurious conditions. New Zealanders would rather get paid $40k a year to attend 12 committee meetings and go to the races.

Not when the disease is manageable from a productivity perspective and prevalent in all our major trading partners and competitors. You could compare it to the fools errand of fortress NZ and eliminating Covid-19. $120b debt and growing on that futile exercise.

Nonsense.

No you said there were more empty homes than there were individuals looking. That is not a crisis of supply but one of availability. That said Government regulation and intervention has restricted supply and distorted the market. This Government has made house inflation worse by entering the market with their QE printed dollars. This has happened at Central and local government levels.

What prejudices? You are the one that starting posting political cliches left, centre and right! QE isn't a medicine. In my opinion it is a very flawed monetary tool. FFS getting back to racing it has given us three very unproductive and costly AWT's!

So your solution is? I'm guessing more Government regulation and intervention.

You really have no idea do you.

So there isn't a housing crisis just an availability and affordability one? That is a generalisation that actually doesnt hold up to scrutiny.

All policies that this Socialist Government introduced with gay abandon. BTW I don't disagree that QE has been a very foolish intervention bought to us by a Labour Government.

Yes that the rich have got richer and the poor poorer under Cindy's Government.

I said name one. Mbovis eradication hasn't improved productivity nor has it happened yet. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/445255/mycoplasma-bovis-government-s-response-badly-planned-and-poorly-executed-study The cost benefit analysis is appalling.

Unlike you I don't buy into any cliches. Any Government intervention that distorts the market will make economic outcomes worse. History proves that. Name one "investment" by this current Government that has improved productivity? Or improved economic wealth?

What a load of shit. You really have this socialist diatribe down to a well rehearsed art form. You must be tormented to see Cindy and her bunch of idiots have made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Your proof? Simply the result of supply and demand. Low supply high demand exacerbated by market distortion caused by Council bureaucracy.

Could have got 8's last week!

Go Verry Elleegant!

You've really confused cause and effect in this spiel.

Surprisingly countries with the least regulation and open economies faired best during the GFC. For NZ it was a blip - nothing more.