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    Quote Originally Posted by moka View Post
    Harvard doesn’t agree with you.

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/jacinda-ardern-named-class-of-2022-commencement-speaker/

    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 371st Commencement on May 26, the University announced Monday.

    “Prime Minister Ardern is one of the most respected leaders on the world stage and we are delighted she will join us in May to celebrate the Class of 2022,” said Harvard President Larry Bacow. “From climate change and gender equality to COVID-19, she has modeled compassionate leadership that has brought together empathy and science-based solutions to address the most challenging issues of our time. I very much look forward to her address.”
    Ardern has won international admiration for her decisive management of the pandemic.
    Yes, wonder if they would have invited her if they knew exactly what sort of leader she has now been uncovered to be - a pathological spin & no delivery artist.

    Wonder what they would make of her 'aspirational' leadership in :

    1. Promising to solve NZ's housing crisis but turning it into a disaster.

    2. Promising 100,000 new houses but delivering less than 3,000 after 4.5 years in power.

    3. Promising to eradicate child poverty but she has had to resort to her usual 'reset' to claim any progress!

    4. Promising the most transparent & accountable government but being the exact opposite.

    5. Using spin to deflect from a pathetic vaccine rollout strategy.

    There's more but the above should be mentioned to the Harvard bright eyed and bushy tailed students about to be spun by NZ's spin artist of the century.

    Let's hope some of them bother to do a bit of research and ask a few questions of NZ's most transparent spin artist.





    Yes, BTW they invited and wrote very highly of Benazir Bhutto & Mark Zukerberg as well.
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    And Ardern's government says there's NO gang problem in NZ :

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...XUO6MXRN7ETZM/

    Auckland shootings: Police called to seven suburbs around the city overnight

    " ...............if gang violence had increased or decreased under her watch, to which she replied: "I reject the premise of that question."

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-violence.html

    But Poto & Ardern were shot down by their own MP Helen White:

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-violence.html
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    An excellent topic for Ardern to tell the commencement class at Harvard is ‘unintended & unexpected consequences’ - despite the tens of millions of dollars spent on consultants by Ardern when implementing policies.

    Rents hitting yet another record level - due to Ardern’s targeting of landlords as enemies of the public.

    Absolutely not surprising at all to anyone with common sense but this incompetent government attributes the rental rises as an unexpected & unintended consequence!

    How so? Ardern might like to enlighten the commencement students with her considered social philosophy of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance View Post
    Rents hitting yet another record level - due to Ardern’s targeting of landlords as enemies of the public.
    Yes and in this strange world govt spending impacts on inflation.

    Despite food and petrol driving it. Those nurses and teachers must be eating a lot more recently
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    Inflation has been caused by central banks + COVID. But the central banks have made the inevitable fall-out much worse because they slashed interest rates and printed money since the GFC to deliberately inflate asset prices in order to induce a ‘wealth effect’. The fireman was the arsonist. Now the angry plebs who went ‘all-in’ on property are looking around for someone to blame as disaster looms, and they are far too ignorant to know the first thing about what central banks did and why it was so reckless. Most will blame ‘the gummint’; they will never learn anything unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logen Ninefingers View Post
    Inflation has been caused by central banks + COVID. But the central banks have made the inevitable fall-out much worse because they slashed interest rates and printed money since the GFC to deliberately inflate asset prices in order to induce a ‘wealth effect’. The fireman was the arsonist. Now the angry plebs who went ‘all-in’ on property are looking around for someone to blame as disaster looms, and they are far too ignorant to know the first thing about what central banks did and why it was so reckless. Most will blame ‘the gummint’; they will never learn anything unfortunately.
    Money printing is a phase in the rise and fall of empires according to Ray Dalio, and immediately precedes the far more troubling phase of “revolutions and wars.”

    https://platonlife.com/blog/ray-dalio-what-comes-after-printing-money-period/

    Phases of a life cycle of an empire
    In brief, after the creation of a new set of rules establishes the new world order, there is typically a peaceful and prosperous period. As people get used to this they increasingly bet on the prosperity continuing, and they increasingly borrow money to do that, which eventually leads to a bubble. As the prosperity increases the wealth gap grows. Eventually the debt bubble bursts, which leads to the printing of money and credit and increased internal conflict, which leads to some sort of wealth redistribution revolution that can be peaceful or violent.

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    Looking forward to NZ’s spin artist of all time deliver her speech to the commencement class of Harvard.

    Going to be the best laughs NZers are going to get for 2022 while the BS hypocrite waxes lyrical about

    leadership,

    transparency,

    accountability,

    delivering on promises

    and

    unifying a country.


    And yes, about kindness and how it’s a wonderful thing to embrace criminals & gangs.

    And how she learnt economics and about businesses while working in a fish & chips shop.

    Let’s not forget about the politics of unexpected & unintended consequences!

    Bring on tomorrow!
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    Stephen colbert is coming back to NZ.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iH9WtfXKXM

    Though some will probably blame her overseas travel for causing increased education fees.
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    Adding onto inflation as a key election issue in 2023 : the rise & rise of mortgage rates.

    Day of reckoning for Ardern & Labour's fairy godfather, Robertson, in 2023 when $160 billion of fixed rate mortgages roll over.

    Every 1% increase will suck $1.6 billion from already hard pressed homeowners, especially first home buyers.

    And it looks like 2.5% is thew likely scenario so it's going to be $4.0 billion sucked out of mortgage homeowners' pockets - ouch!

    Wonder how they will feel about being kind to the spin artist Ardern then?

    Think they will be grateful to her for the housing crisis?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...AO3QVVZJJOBAA/
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    ‘The gummint’ will get the blame for mortgage holders pain. NZers won’t blame themselves for the own outrageous borrowing binge to spurge on overpriced property. Wasn’t that long ago property was all anyone could talk about, and they all had glazed over eyes and enormous grins. Total mania. Now many of them will be feeling pretty sick and sorry.

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