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Category Archives: Economics
Church of Neoliberalism
Traditional Religions I was baptised and raised as a Christian with Sunday school and later confirmation. To be precise I was a Protestant, which according to Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life” allowed me to buy condoms. However before I ever had … Continue reading
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Tagged Galbraith, John K, Richard Norgaard, self-flagellation
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We are better than this
The recent Canadian election campaign, which ended in the defeat of the conservative Harper government featured one outstanding campaign ad. It was not produced by the opposition but Adbusters, the Vancouver based anti-consumerist organisation. Even if it is pretty shocking … Continue reading
TPPA : No bus but sheep truck
TPPA – more of the same old same old This cartoon appeared in the Listener Magazine in 1999. Slane could recycle it for today. Nothing has changed. Then it was the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference in Auckland. New Zealand’s … Continue reading
TPPA : Dining out on dead rats
TPPA – what we don’t know All governments involved in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) have kept negotiations deliberately secret. This enables them to brush of any criticism from its sceptical citizens as uninformed scaremongering. They won’t release the full text for some … Continue reading
VW emissions scandal: Any surprises ?
Emission Scandal The various emissions standards and testing regimes in the US, EU and individual countries are complex. Like most of us I was only superficially informed by news reports about the VW scandal but not the background and long … Continue reading
Ayn Rand’s monsters : Neoliberal-Man
Neoliberal economic theory based on fiction All capitalist market economic theory is based on the existence of an all informed rational creature acting solely in it’s own individual self-interest. Such creature is rather like the mythical unicorn. It does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, Charles Manson, Donald Trump, Frankenstein's monster, Gore Vidal, Jeremy Wells, Mike Hosking, neoliberal man
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Lurch to the neoliberal right I can’t help it to have the benefit of knowledge and experience, which only comes with age. Unlike everybody under 50 who grew up under the intense ‘greed is good’ indoctrination of the neoliberal Reagan/Thatcher/Rogernomics era … Continue reading
Don’t touch that sausage
“Making laws and making sausages are very similar. The public will generally consume the final result, but you wouldn’t want them to watch exactly how they are made.” TPP minister Tim Grosser The arrogance and contempt of this government has … Continue reading
Public bad Private good – A myth that won’t die
The Privatisation myth lives on One of the cornerstones of neoliberal dogma is privatisation of public assets and services. PRIVATISATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals … Continue reading
War on drugs is war on us
Drug laws are based on racial discrimination against the Chinese. This fact should get your attention in the current climate in New Zealand where everyone pretends to be so politically correct about racism against the ethnic Chinese. Drug laws are still discriminating on … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, cannabis, opium, racial discrimination, reefer madness, SERCO, war on drugs
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