What do you want your country to do in a recession?

[xoggoth]

I keep seeing recently that there are 1.2 billion chinks, sorry Chinese, but I am quite sure there were 3bn a few years back. What happened to the other 2bn odd? That is the third time Charlton Heston has died too.

[moorfield]

Can we have more posts about house prices please?

And immigrants.

And the Princess Diana conspiracy theory.

[Moscow Mule]

I keep seeing recently that there are 1.2 billion chinks, sorry Chinese, but I am quite sure there were 3bn a few years back. What happened to the other 2bn odd? That is the third time Charlton Heston has died too.

Genocide, or you're just mistaken?

[expat]

It's a piss poor country if $350 million a year is enough to stave off the downturn.

Just a right-sized country. About the size of the UK, 4.2M people. Like Britain without the English, mmm.

[tay]

Just a right-sized country. About the size of the UK, 4.2M people. Like Britain without the English, mmm.

And with lots of extra food..... that they now have access to sell to a country with 250 times the population at no tariffs.

Just another nail in the commonwealth coffin, NZ has been trying to get a free trade agreement with the EU for years, they havent wanted to know (fair enough really), and so we need to look to other places for our economic future.

[expat]

And with lots of extra food..... that they now have access to sell to a country with 250 times the population at no tariffs.

Just another nail in the commonwealth coffin, NZ has been trying to get a free trade agreement with the EU for years, they havent wanted to know (fair enough really), and so we need to look to other places for our economic future.

Absolutely. Our stupidity, you have given us every chance. Personally I will continue to buy my favourite meat, lamb, from the only country in the world free of scrapie (possible origin of BSE), no matter how high the tariffs may be.

[EternalOptimist]

And with lots of extra food..... that they now have access to sell to a country with 250 times the population at no tariffs.

Just another nail in the commonwealth coffin, NZ has been trying to get a free trade agreement with the EU for years, they havent wanted to know (fair enough really), and so we need to look to other places for our economic future.

One major problem here, the Chin people do not eat lamb or butter. You better get them kiwi fruit orchardists to switch to fried rice and spring rolls pdq.
Plus we all know that when you make a tariff deal with the Chinese, half an hour later you want another one

[tay]

One major problem here, the Chin people do not eat lamb or butter. You better get them kiwi fruit orchardists to switch to fried rice and spring rolls pdq.
Plus we all know that when you make a tariff deal with the Chinese, half an hour later you want another one

From the article

The deal also bestows "Favoured Nation Status" on New Zealand giving exporters easier access to markets and less stringent non-tariff barriers.

It also means that if another nation gets better terms in a trade deal with China, it will also apply to New Zealand.

So the deal gets updated automatically. (and yes I am aware you were joking)

The actually eat quite a lot of lamb as well, just not compared ot other meats as lamb was considered very expensive... but its about to get a lot cheaper for them.

[Jog On]

Would you put money into a NZX tracker fund right now?

Passive funds are also simple and transparent, points out Yvonne Davie, head of business at NZX's SmartShares, which runs five sharemarket-based tracker funds: smartTENZ, smartMIDZ, smartFONZ, smartMOZY, and smartOZZY.

[EternalOptimist]

From the article



So the deal gets updated automatically. (and yes I am aware you were joking)

The actually eat quite a lot of lamb as well, just not compared ot other meats as lamb was considered very expensive... but its about to get a lot cheaper for them.

I was joking in more ways than one, I doubt that Chinese food is anything like what we see down the chinky. What exactly is their diet? To me it sounds like a bit of Westernisation going on, with parts of the Chinese rich aquiring decadent tastes