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Had a chance to speak to one Reserve Bank member who voted for a rate rise on Wednesday, Hayley Gourley, and the bank's chief economist Paul Conway who voted against:
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Global oil supply fell by 10mb/d in March after the Iran conflict but total global inventories heading into the war stood at a fairly healthy 8200mb. The IEA has been helping The Post make sense out of the facts and figures: thepost.co.nz/business/36098…
I believe there's a Michael Scott in Wellington who lost their phone on Bowen Street this morning; the 'if found' number just rung the phone - so it's been handed to the security staff (the ones who man the scanners) at Parliament.
Is there any way to filter out tweets that contain the phrase ‘let that sink in’? I read it. I don’t need time for it to ‘sink in’.
Seem to have brought back an unwanted souvenir from Rarotonga this week. Tremendous care provided today by the great people at Wellington A&E.
Just dredging this one up in case anyone is confused about what a 'capital income tax' is likely to be thepost.co.nz/business/35033…
Ok, just got banned from entering Russia 'forever'; ie until the fascist regime falls I suppose. Guess it was this piece: mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/new…
I mean this piece, sorry, wrong link before: thepost.co.nz/business/35018…
Blimey. Just discovered Keir Starmer grew up in my home town. No, don't know him. He is a several years older than me, thank you. As surprisingly, also found out there must (have) be(en) a factory somewhere near Oxted... labour.org.uk/updates/press-….
Media & Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith responds to RNZ boss' backing for a levy to help fund the media: thepost.co.nz/business/35026…
DOC job ad for senior communications adviser:
"You'll need to be a strategic thinker, someone who can see the bigger picture and make connections ... and comfortable with ambiguity."
Um, what?
careers.doc.govt.nz/jobtools…
Seems fair imo EVs pay same RUCs as average car would. Could argue unfair efficient petrol cars pay less than inefficient ones, but convenient system and petrol efficiency not bad proxy for axle weight. EVs still save heaps in fuel. Scaring people unhelpful. Time to move on, imo.
Come on @countdownnz, if your Crofton Downs store is closed for 2.5 days due to a flood, surely you could message on your website to stop people driving there?
In case anyone thought cutting public service jobs was going to be easy: thepost.co.nz/business/35011…
Home solar systems or solar farms? The economic arguments seem pretty clear. thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…
A reminder why scrapping the Clean Car Discount shouldn't make a lot of difference if the Clean Car Standard is still in place (in a nutshell, 1 or 1 = 1) thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…
Union and BusinessNZ commissioned reports go head to head on ‘greedflation’ thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…
News that merits attention from my colleague Rob Stock thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…
