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View Poll Results: Will the Bear come here ?

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  • Bears can't swim too far so we are safe

    5 11.11%
  • The existing bears at Zoo's might claw us

    11 24.44%
  • Existing bears at Zoo's will escape and do some damage

    20 44.44%
  • Bears will arrive on ships and take over the country

    9 20.00%
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaygor1 View Post
    Sadly clicked on the link. Now you tube is giving me this libertarian's videos as options. A couple of others for your information.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hHi4sylxE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8neTAW256Wo

    Possibly he is a bit biased Vaygor? I believe he might just be a little bit biased and may have strong beliefs relating to his ideaologies.

    You can make up your own mind on this fella but my opinion of Vaygor has dropped.
    Last edited by Aaron; 03-02-2019 at 04:06 PM.

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    Thanks for the links Aaron. Stossel certainly makes some compelling arguments. I hadn't come across him before and have subscribed.

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    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12200399

    There's Labour's attempt to buy back the Maori vote that Auntie Helen lost. No trouble at all when they can use our money to do it; although eZ will be here shortly to explain that isn't the case at all.
    Last edited by fungus pudding; 03-02-2019 at 09:26 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12200399

    There's Labour's attempt to buy back the Maori vote that Auntie Helen lost. no trouble at all when they can use our money to do it; although eZ will be here shortly to explain that isn't the case at all.
    If I recall the last government didnt hesitate to disperse $$. Whanau Ora one example etc etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaygor1 View Post
    Everyone has a right to make of it what they will.

    The UN and governmental agencies tasked with providing such welfare more often than not end up unintentionally ensuring this objective is never met. The following clip may be a bit biased in the view of some, but I think it does highlight a valid mechanism as to why and how this occurs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4lnDy2xnQ
    The presenter Libertarian journalist John Stossel is a zealous advocate of free markets. I encourage people to use critical thinking when viewing it.
    Vaygor1’s intention in posting the link was to show that agencies that are supposed to provide welfare often end up abusing those in their care.
    The video says at the start “no group has been helped by government more than American Indians. Our government has made Indians tribes wards of the state. No group has been more helped by government and no group has done worse.”

    To be a ward of the welfare state was often unpleasant and inhuman. That’s why New Zealand is having a Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse suffered by wards of the state.
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-th...s-got-it-right

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    Quote Originally Posted by moka View Post
    Many people think very little about fair play and very largely about what is unfair.
    I’m reading a book by journalist Gary Weiss in which he interviews members of the Tea Party to understand why they favour policies that will only make the current problems worse. He could understand their dissatisfaction with the status quo, but could not understand why they favoured policies that will only get them deeper into the mess they are already in.

    Millions of middle class people were endorsing policies that would directly harm them, their children and their parents. The national debt is a burden but if cuts affect education, healthcare isn’t that the immediate priority. Isn’t low-cost health care in the rational self- interest of most people? Did these Tea Party activists understand what was in their best interests?
    He had trouble comprehending their acceptance of the most radical form of no-government capitalism with their call for lower taxes, decreased government spending and more deregulation.

    After a long discussion with a leading Tea Party activist he came to the conclusion that “He only seemed to know what he was against, not what he was for.”
    It’s the same principle as in this statement - many people think very little about fair play and very largely about what is unfair. We are good at complaining about problems and escalating them and not so good at moving on, seeing solutions and resolving problems.

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    "You should never underestimate human stupidity. It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history," says historian Yuval Noah Harari.
    In the end democracy is not based in human rationality, is based on human feelings...and if somebody can manipulate your emotions effectively democracy will become an emotional puppet show.
    Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHb7R3kx40
    Last edited by moka; 05-02-2019 at 10:19 PM.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuTm1WA09uk
    A Billionaire Investor Says The Economy Is Headed For '20 Years Of Ugliness' | Davos 2019
    Bob Prince, the co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates — the world's biggest hedge fund — gave an exclusive interview to Business Insider last week at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

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    Expert warns Australia could turn into slums in 20 years | 60 Minutes Australia
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSdiq3sOTc

    Housing and banking expert Martin North North has criticised developers and the housing industry for “throwing up” high-rise buildings at such alarmingly fast rates. He warned viewers that significant defects and safety concerns are imminent.
    Residents were evacuated on Christmas Eve from the 392 luxury apartments in Opal Tower in Sydney when dangerous cracks appeared. The building had only opened 4 months earlier.
    It's not an isolated incident, thousands of buildings have defects because developers are trying to get buildings on the market quickly and there is a high risk they are cutting corners. There are a large number of projects with defects.
    About 10% of Australian households with mortgages are in negative equity = 450,000 households.

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    When the next recession comes there is going to be a lot of turmoil,' says Jeffrey Gundlach
    The Fed admits they’re having discussions about doing QE again, discussing whether it will be a regular policy tool, not one that will be only used during emergencies. The Fed not sure whether they are going to do quantitative easing or quantitative tightening, so the Fed has sort of lost its way.
    The biggest risk is the corporate bond market which is extraordinarily leveraged, 45% of investment grade bond market would be rated junk right now.
    During the next recession we are going to have an extraordinary national debt problem because the national debt is growing at a rapid rate in a growing economy. National debt increased by $1.27tn.
    The biggest problem is we have a growing economy and yet we have decided that debt doesn’t matter one bit, and national debt went over $22tn and it’s growing during a growing economy. Taxation versus GDP gone from 20% to 15% so we have decided to run a large deficit and it seems no is interested in collecting the taxes for that.
    Global stock market peaked 26 January 2018. US market hung on until October.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSo1rTqMdc

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