It's nice to get a headline, even just for a blog, with a former Kiwi PM, a former US Treasury Secretary / Harvard President, a (late) billionaire, and a Kiwi education business, Crimson, in the one line. Robertson, the US investor who died recently & owned Kauri Cliffs up north, was also an investor in Crimson Consulting. The National Business Review is running a story today asking, "Crimson without Julian Robertson: (CEO) Beaton mulls what’s next". Crimson Education states

When I last sent an article to the Herald critiquing the RBNZ, the editors changed this line, "So what has been driving the RBNZ? Populism. Incompetence" to read, "So what has been driving the RBNZ? Populism", censoring the word "incompetence". It's funny when a former prominent RBNZ board member used exactly that word, "incompetent", to describe the present-day Bank to me (in writing). I don't choose words lightly, and usually have "deep throat" sources to back them up. What

As the country grapples with a huge outbreak of youth offending, coming in the form of ram-raids and such like, our two major political parties, as usual, waffle on without providing any simple, clear cut, empirically proven way of solving the problem. ACT Leader David Seymour has advocated for electronic monitoring which entails youth offenders wearing ankle bracelets. He has been attacked from all sides for coming up with such a sensible idea. Labour wont contemplate it whi

Several years ago I figured it was important to weight one's share portfolio more toward the oil, gas & minerals sectors - and did so with my own investing. Why? Since low-cost renewable (alternative) energy sources are not coming on stream nearly fast enough to replace non-renewables anytime soon. Hence the share price of existing companies, like Exxon & Shell, given the constraints on new drilling & exploration, would probably strengthen. Further, I figured these resource c

As reported yesterday, the government's plans to put 15% GST onto Kiwi Saver fees created a stupendous uproar, to the extent the plans were binned 24 hours after being announced. The might of the KiwiSaver provider industry, together with the Nats, made the government look like robbers by getting this headline onto front page news: Government quietly introduces $103 billion tax on KiwiSaver It's such a big headline it could even cost the government the next election. Accordin