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Colin James on Economy

October 28th, 2008 at 6:43 am by David Farrar

One sentence worth extracting:

Helen Clark has resurrected a goal of getting into the top half of the OECD in wealth but is promising more of the policies that have taken us down, not up, that ladder.

Indeed.

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11 Responses to “Colin James on Economy”

  1. OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,678) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    Hollow words from Hels.

    The fun aspect is that the New Zealand sheeple voted for this decline. Will they vote for another three years of decline under Hels?

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  2. Pita (322) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    They’ll be printing money next!

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  3. Ross Nixon (533) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Hey, I think the five-headed monster has aspirations of getting NZ to near the top of another list, the Third World, not the OECD. Looks like they are on track!

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  4. somewhatthoughtful (405) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    conveniently ignoring the rest of his reasonably balanced article are we dpf? You know, the part where he said the nats didn’t have anything to get us there either…

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  5. May (24) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    “OECD ladder too steep for NZ to climb”, in the NBR

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/oecd-ladder-too-steep-nz-climb-36901

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  6. Redbaiter (13,197) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Thanks for that reference May- a good article.

    Interesting statistic-

    “Over 2000-2007, New Zealand’s real GDP per capita grew at 2.1% per year, while the average growth rate for the rest of the OECD was 2.4% (or 1.8% if weighted by population).”

    Sounds to me as if the whole damn OECD is a basket case.

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  7. OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,678) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    New Zealanders love being poor. It’s dreams come true time in kiwiland. :D

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  8. DamnedAngry (242) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    So many kiwi’s are now tainted by government handouts, that overall they don’t aspire to anything…she’ll be right mate, Helen will take care of us.

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  9. dave strings (608) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Lets face it, if you’ve agot a tick winning policy, roll it out again and see if anyone salutes it. If they don’t you can always say it’s an aspiration not a policy!

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  10. kisekiman (224) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Unbelievable she would trump out a policy that she has failed miserably to deliver on. Pure narcissistic delusion. Party vote ACT.

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  11. theodoresteel (90) Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Where did she bring it up again that she wanted to climb up the OECD? Not doubting, just want to know so I can quite her on it…

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