Comments on: Is Anderton about to announce his retirement?

By: Luke H

Luke H — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:40:34 +0000

Can you see the total funds ‘invested’ anyway?

I don’t know, can you?

(It is possible to find out, just a bit technical).

By: expat

expat — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:43:14 +0000

Can you see the total funds ‘invested’ anyway?

By: Fletch

Fletch — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:40:04 +0000

I am not going to announce my retirement this year. Unless National has plans to abolish parliament the way it abolished democracy in Auckland

You mean, the way Labour (with your support) demolished democracy in New Zealand in 2008 with the Electoral Finance Act?

cough*hypocrite*cough

By: Michaels

Michaels — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:23:51 +0000

Why on earth would he retire???
He does nothing and over the next few years will pick up the thick end of 300k.

By: eyeye

eyeye — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:41:57 +0000

Will they payout if they discover the rest of his body is dead before the end of the Year?

By: tvb

tvb — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:36:08 +0000

That is that then, they will have to carry him out feet first.

By: Put it away

Put it away — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:52:34 +0000

sideshow bob – farrowing crates are only for productive pigs

By: Colonel Masters

Colonel Masters — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:22:31 +0000

“Pump and dump” is all very well, but as Luke H points out, the low volumes and large steps between prices make it very difficult to take your profit quickly without pushing the price back down to where it started.

By: Luke H

Luke H — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:51:53 +0000

would now seek to make himself even richer by means of such distasteful measures.

This isn’t distasteful. The amount of money he could make off this is miniscule compared to the salary and benefits he has recieved over many years being an MP. Not to mention this money would be earned freely from people trading their own money, versus the salary which comes out of OUR pockets.

I think we are all getting a little too excited about this. This particular stock is seeing very low volumes traded. Consequently, the market maker (the software behind the scenes at iPredict) has set up the stock prices with fairly large distances between steps. If you buy 100 stocks – only $45 worth – you will move the market by a relatively large 5%. One deluded Anderton fan could have moved the stock by this much with just a few hundred dollars.

Long story short, we are making a mountain out of a molehill.

By: MT_Tinman

MT_Tinman — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:10:56 +0000

Who?

By: side show bob

side show bob — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:16:37 +0000

So comrade Jim is going to retire, perhaps a farrowing crate and trough would be a suitable retirement present, remind him of his years in parliament.

By: thedavincimode

thedavincimode — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:01:19 +0000

Announce it!!!???

I thought he retired about nine years ago. When is he ever in parliament??

I just assumed that they had wheeled him out and parked him on the lawn with a rug over his legs.

By: dime

dime — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:14:27 +0000

i just signed up to ipredict.. didnt realise the site uses actual money lol

i should probably research a bit more before diving in!

By: goonix

goonix — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:58:46 +0000

It fell quite a bit overnight. At around .45 now.

By: big bruv

big bruv — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:50:42 +0000

If Anderton does retire the seat will go to Labour.

One can only hope that Labour put forward an existing list MP as their candidate, am I right in saying that would bring the “Tizard factor” back into play?

By: coge

coge — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:46:41 +0000

Or this a subtle method of “pump & dump”? Maybe too late to get in I’d say. The old retirement ramping trick.

By: Redbaiter

Redbaiter — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:43:28 +0000

Shonky Socialist.

One of the most smug sneering supercilious persons in the NZ parliament.

Living (while in power) in one of the most luxurious houses in the country at taxpayer expense, and about to retire on a taxpayer funded pension that far exceeds his real worth to the country, and all the while he takes these trappings and feeds so gluttonously at the trough, professing to care for the poor and disadvantaged of New Zealand.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find someone so useless and who has lined his pockets so well at the expense of NZ’s productive sector would now seek to make himself even richer by means of such distasteful measures.