The local housing bubble is peaking. Prices are slowly sinking. Kea looked at the houses we did not buy and noted that the prices they…
Posted: 16 April 2021
Categories: COVID 19, Dollars and cents
Category: Dollars and cents
Posted: 9 April 2021
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, Dollars and cents
This is from Peter Grant, who is a daily read around here, and it comes with a couple of observations. People in NZ are either…
Posted: 5 April 2021
Categories: Analogue, Australia, Dollars and cents, Fitness, Wokeness
The Agoge was the training place for young men. It was where you learned to handle hardship and discipline. If you did not end up…
Posted: 1 April 2021
Categories: Black Swan, Dollars and cents
I’m sleeping well right now. The move is over. We have projects, we are busy. But the bubble which is the protery market is continuing…
Posted: 24 March 2021
Categories: Black Swan, Dollars and cents, New Zealand
There has been a fair amount of fallout from the government rushing changes in the tax law through under urgency last night.. There has clearly…
Posted: 19 March 2021
Categories: Dollars and cents
This started witn an interaction at the bank. We were trying to set up a joint account — although we have a shared working account,…
Posted: 12 March 2021
Categories: Dollars and cents
Currently the top tax rate in NZ is 33 cents in the dollar. We have a GST which is 15% on all transactions, so you…
Posted: 12 February 2021
Categories: Dollars and cents
Last night Kea and I were looking at planning our next project. She noted that friends who had very nice houses and were holding out…
Posted: 29 January 2021
Categories: Dollars and cents
Some observations. The interest rates are at present very low, to negative. The employed, at least in the antipodes, are strongly encouraged or coerced into…
Posted: 22 January 2021
Categories: Black Swan, Dollars and cents, Green Death Cult
There is an odd sort called Harry Dent. He’s spend his entire life making outrageous claims depending on where the life phase of the Boomer…