This is not investment advice.

I am not an active investor. I do own a share (AIRNZ) but most of my savings are in the university pension funds. Which could be taken from me -- and you -- by executive fiat. But this was in my Linkedin box, and it feels wrong.
The first two…
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The social democratic experiment is over. [Quotage]

There is an endgame for social democracy. As Margaret Thatcher said: socialism endeth when you run out of other people's money. And that will not look good.
Sadly, for the beneficiaries and the benefactors (more accurately, parasites and…
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Marriage as consipicous consumption.

In both the Christian and secular world the cost of weddings has gone up, as marriage has become more risky.
New Zealanders are trailing behind Australians in how much they splash out on weddings, spending about half as much on their…
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