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Global official aid falls - NZ languishes at the back
Pathetic. Official development aid worldwide actually fell by 8.4%, in real terms, last year. This meant a drop from 0.31% to 0.28% of OECD member’s GNI, rather than rising up towards the 0.7% o… more »
Lance Wiggs
The TSA and the Em upon the Divergent Cudgeling Entire horse
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Global official aid falls - NZ languishes at the back
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: Pathetic. Official development aid worldwide actually fell by 8.4%, in real terms, last year. This m … more »
China: all but wheat, sugar and rice
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: Wheat, sugar and rice, along with “certain paper products” those are the items that will … more »
How journos see the world.
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: Check out this fascinating series of maps which show how various on and ofline newspapers and the bl … more »
Healthcare - double the inflation rate is unsustainable
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: I’m reading Stiglitz and Bilmes’ new book - The Three Trillion Dollar War. It sets out t … more »
US Share Portfolio update - 12% up YTD
Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: My US Share portfolio (green) in 2007 was up 63.5% versus the S&P500 index return of 3.53%. A gr … more »
Blogging for $35 billion - Expensive Tankers
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: So you lose a $35 billion deal to a competitor that you have been keeping away from your major custo … more »
A tale of two friends - the impact of South African flight
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Lance Wiggs wrote 1 month ago: This is an article written by Charl du Plessis - a buddy of mine from business school in the USA. He … more »
Real Estate is falling - what happens next?
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: The housing crash is cascading around the world, and the dire predictions are coming true. Here … more »
Ham-fisted intervention in markets is dull thinking
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Score one for protectionism, and minus several ranks of the economic freedom index for New Zealand, … more »
The sage of Omaha speaks
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Warren Buffet’s yearly missive is out. Essential reading for anyone interested in investing. H … more »
one in 99 USA adults is behind bars
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Not only are US Prisons terrifying, . , but now we hear that 1 in 99 of the US adult population is … more »
Hope: Si Se Puede Cambiar
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Like Bill Clinton, from Hope Arkansas, Barack Obama is bringing positivity to his first campaign for … more »
Judgment Day is here: negative housing equity
Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: SST reports on several stories of negative equity situations happening in Auckland. That’s whe … more »
Lights on or off - Safety versus Environment
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Does the safety of turning your lights on during the day outweigh the cost? According to Hamish Pier … more »
The Joneses listing is cancelled
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Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Bugger. That was an obvious short on the housing market, in spite of a very interesting game changin … more »
US versus the world
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Lance Wiggs wrote 3 months ago: The USA now spends more on “defense” than the rest of the world combined. US$670 billion … more »
Big Deals: Microsoft and Yahoo
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Lance Wiggs wrote 3 months ago: OK - so I’m almost always picking the bearish side for investments, but this one seems pretty … more »
Big Deals: BHPB and Rio Tinto
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Lance Wiggs wrote 3 months ago: BHP Billiton is a great company, and yes, I am consulting to one of their plants at the moment. Desp … more »
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