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Got a reply from Prof. Peter Morici already! And it’s quite interesting. His view is that one of the main contributors to the US current account deficit is the undervaluation of the Chinese Yuan. This is caused in his view … Continue reading →

Just to underscore the seriousness of the NZ current account deficit of 8.3% of GDP, I read an artcle tonight by Professor Peter Morici from the University of Maryland about the dangers of the US current account deficit which currently … Continue reading →

According to this article at twice.com dated yesterday Dec. 20, 20% of men have yet to start their Christmas shopping. What??! Some people have started already??!!

The NZ Herald reports the NZ Current Account Deficit has increased from 8.1 to 8.3% of GDP. This comes days after Finance Minister Michael Cullen claimed “economic forecasts showed the best economic growth period for “a generation” was set to … Continue reading →

Evidence of the slowing NZ economy in this comment from Noel Leeming Group chief executive Andrew Dutkiewicz in the NZ Herald – New Zealand retail spending was slowing due to less demand for housing which reduced consumer confidence and in … Continue reading →

Nice quote from Mike Moore in the NZ Herald today… The biggest per capita givers in the US are working-class, conservative Christians. The smallest per capita givers are liberal public servants who, I suspect, would rather sign petitions and pass … Continue reading →

BTW, just found this article that partly addresses the way that IE handles the cases I just described. http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html#nextfloat When a block follows a floated element, it should — as a block — ignore the float, but its contents should … Continue reading →

This is mostly a note to myself – I don’t expect it will mean anything to too many others who read this… I’ve been wrestling with what seemed like strange behavior of Firefox in rendering floated divs in html/css. Internet … Continue reading →

NewstalkZB had a news item in tonight’s 5pm bulletin on increasing violence in NZ middle schools. Ross Tyson, the principal of Cambridge Middle School was quoted as saying, “Much of the violence is born from an attitude that children can … Continue reading →

From Joe Klein in the latest Time magazine – A recent study of Arkansas, conducted by the nonpartisan Urban Institute, estimated that immigrants there pay more in Social Security and sales taxes than they cost in social services like health … Continue reading →