Daily Archives: March 18, 2013

I’m not an economist. I work for the government, but I have seen the various fashions around economies. I have lived under a completely planned economy (courtesy of the Muldoon National government), an economy with minimal regulation and social Darwinism (courtesy of the Bolger National government) and now a government which borrowed in the hope

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I’m coming to this as a Catholic friend thinks about social justice and considers it in terms of security: a safe job, decent conditions, and retirement. The ability to raise a family. The social contract of the 1850s. Francis, who has just been made Bishop of Rome, served in Argentina for most of his life.

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