Posts by Jeremy Eade
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m, yes... but anyone who thinks the Cullen Fund wasn't a "political plaything" from it's inception is being a wee bit naive."
isn't it accepted that we need more funds for a wave of well deserved retirements coming up.
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that's the change, national probably didn't ever dream of this kind of election...or labour for that matter.....what a backdrop
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"so economic circumstances haven't "changed" in the last month, they've played out according to projections."
To some projections, there's always a lot of projections on wall street .
The failure of that market has put huge pressure on every other market and while there's a reasoned economic way out of here, the failure of that market is a big talking point from now on.
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It seems a shame to screw with the fund so early but like Craig I’d love to see a good summary of the risks and opportunities, but especially the risks at the moment.
And I am a little stunned…..for all the blue ribbon bluster of the last 20 years for government to be a periphery player in our economy it strikes me as a noticeable u-turn.
Have economics circumstances changed in the last month that much? Fuck yes.
Accepted market philosophy is at a mess at the moment. That such important markets could collapse themselves through their own unregulated gluttony is a major failure of the system from any angle.
Is Key starting to acknowledge that is there is no way you can reduce government out of the modern economy at this present stage of our economic development (2008-2011) . You’ve got to keep people selling and buying even in bad times because that’s the blood flow of the market. The market is populated by the citizen , the canopies are now in repossession back to a sad street in new york but the populace will always turn up for commercial enlightenment because what else are we going to do, live in caves?
And of course who knows more about building economies in what could be either a long volatile economic period or a fast swing out of growth thanks to hopefully better legal and market structures?
that"s what key has to articulate, that he has a vision that out reasons Cullen . Cullen built the economy for this kind of year, a quiet solidity.
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Muldoon was right, those communists can come from anywhere. We should have never stopped playing that ad.
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Gayle Quinnel, a John McCain supporter says at a McCain Rally that "Obama is an Arab..etc"
That interview with gayle quinnel is amazing, she's terrified.
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"Ummm...and also.
Therefore can anything ever stick around?
So even if the norm was ideal, you'd be driven to unstick it?
More."If the norm can be bettered make the argument but an ideal norm sounds pretty unbeatable ., i'd vote for an ideal norm
.....I'm saying it's 2008 and progression doesn't stop just because our two parties have started shadowing each other and in some ways regressing our politics.
take for example boot camps , jesus that's just the failed politics of 30, 40 years ago. We have a far greater understanding of delinquency than ever before, it's complex and it will take considered social programmes to remedy but forget that, let's just put the boot-camp answer back on the table..maybe we could just put all wayward citizens into bootcamp.
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"Jeremy - According to the World Bank we are the second most business-friendly country in THE WORLD - you must have missed this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/06/business/compete.php"sure we do suprisingly well on some individual measures, i guess it would be correct to say we are a normal oecd economy with nothing socially or financially to out of the ordinary , that's what the data says.
The billboards make out we are a on a path to basketcase status failing excepted first world measure.
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"big billboard brother says we are extremely overtaxed, we are business unfriendly, we have out of control crime, we have unprecedented floods of migration of our best people."
"To be scrupulously fair, the first three of those things are matters of opinion, since they depend on your personal assessment of what ideal levels of taxation, friendliness to business, and crime are."
"But to be scrupulously honest we have been business friendly over the past nine years - it's just that business hasn't acknowledged it:"
I think we can measure ourselves meaningfully in a political sense within an oecd context unless you want to preach "new deal" type concepts but i haven't seen a new deal yet . The oecd is the economic and social club we operate in and we sit very averagely in nearly all peer comparisons, but hey the oecd has just left the middle ages in social law so let's not get too excited.
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"But if people want different things, we're just stuck with it."
I take the view that nothing is stuck that cannot be unstuck. Heaps of shit has been unstuck.
I can't accept the norm , it's unhealthy and against my evolutionary conditioning.
by the way ....what do people want that is so contradictory?