Without fear or favour Peter Isaac tip toes through political correctness and our Five Questions

Dec 24, 2017  - Where do you see the mainstream media now?In a rather stronger position than it appears to see itself. There are the revenue shifts in which their giveaway versions are flourishing especially in property advertising. Similarly the broadcasters have a solid localised radio backbone via carrying advertising for patent medicines, directed at those of mature years, their audience base.

Inventor’s son Duff Daysh became eminent financier

Dec 20, 2017  - The news that a hitherto unrecognised New Zealand dairy farmer Norman Daysh invented the mechanised milking machine and had the patents to prove it was officially revealed by the world leader in milking machines De Laval which took up these patents.

De Laval which is presumably aware of the problem that New Zealanders have in recognising achievements outside the sporting sphere platformed descendants of Norman Daysh who died at the relatively young age of 42 while demonstrating his invention at the Palmerston North Showgrounds.

Meguerditch Bouldoukian is considered in the West the leading Arabic-language authority on banking in the Middle East. He now takes our Five Questions on the pending flotation of Aramco and the economic circumstances in which it will take place……

The Saudis appear to have valued Aramco at US$2 trillion. Western commentators have claimed that it is over valued?

The issue of valuation of a company in investment banking criteria has more than six methods. We can say here though that if the two or more sides agree on a method to value ARAMCO then we can wish them good luck. From a conservative approach to the most liberal, its market capitalization is reported to extend from $1.5 trillion to $10 trillion.

Time is running out as Dark forces gather to wrest control of Magic Mountain

Dec 12, 2017  -   The Amazon – News Corporation acquisition of the television rights for the Tolkien fantasies threatens to submerge New Zealand’s role as their earthly home.

The problem is only now being perceived and is based on experience that the current version of a familiar theme overwhelms all previous versions.

An example is the way in which the Netflix rendering of the saga of Britain’s royal family The Crown has taken over as the accepted presentation.

Restored Funds Seen as Catalyst of new Saudi Financial Services Economy

Dec 11, 2017  -  The detention of Saudi princes along with a big slice of the rest of the tycoon class in a simultaneous round up has rather greater consequences for Australasia than was originally imagined.  This is because the tentacles of the detainees reach deeply into commercial life in Australasia.

Local Government Commission Instead Should be encouraging Collaboration

Dec 7, 2017  -  The Lions service organisation called on management consultant Derek Williams, a specialist in mergers, to become a platform participant in its community forum programme designed to achieve a wider understanding among voters of the pending referendum on the amalgamation of local bodies in the Wairarapa.

United States new diafiltration ingredient ignited Canada’s secessionist milk powder keg

Canada’s determination to protect its French-speaking dairy industry is emerging as the reason for its last minute defection from the Trans Pacific Partnership trade treaty.  The cause of this pre-signing ceremony pull-out is increasingly being seen as the other North American defector.

This is Canada’s NAFTA partner the United States which is determined to push a new-technology milk derivative across the border into Canada.

UDC once among world’s biggest finance companies

Dec 1, 2017  - The failure of the ANZ to consummate its sale of UDC Finance to China’s HNA Group is further evidence to the effect that it is one thing to sell an asset into this region. It is another thing to actually get paid for it.  There are now strong indications that the UDC sale is now back at the point of its departure, the signing ceremony.

Re-entry to Doomed Mine overwhelmed by politics

Nov 24, 2017  -  The politicisation of the reopening of the Pike River Coal Mine, which materialised as the dominant moral cause of the recent New Zealand general election continues in spite of the understanding that the mine is more dangerous now than it was when 29 miners were killed there in rapid-sequence explosions in 2010.

Counter-intuitive labels date to Irish Famine & Repeal of Corn Laws

Nov 23, 2017  -  New Zealand commentators remain confused by the terms neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism which they often confuse in relation to free trade and customs unions such as the Trans Pacific scheme.

It was the conservatives, in this case the New Zealand National Government, which pushed for the original TPP scheme.