Quality from the Dim Post
Truly, this guys satire is brilliant. I love the new post so much I have to stick bits of it up here 😛
Investors, economists and prominent businessmen have all praised the new economic plan unveiled by National Party leader John Key this weekend.
Key’s proposed strategy to kickstart the New Zealand economy was announced yesterday in a speech to local party members at the Winter Palace restaurant in Parnell. Key has promised that if elected the government will provide unlimited liquidity to banks and other major businesses in exchange for 100% equity.
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‘A National government will buy out the mortgage of every property in New Zealand, both business and residential,’ Key said. The news was met with cheers of support from the enthusiastic crowd of National supporters.
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Business Round Table Director Roger Kerr welcomed National’s new scheme. ‘It’s about time we ditched the tried and failed socialist ideas of the Labour Party and moved on as a country,’ Kerr said.
The last sentence made me laugh – alot 😛
Pasta Hut?!?
Given that we could be entering a global recession, it’s not surprising to companies rationlaising their corporate strategy. However one thing that has caught me by surprise is the article I saw on stuff about Pizza hut rebranding as Pasta hut. This seamed particularly interesting given a recent post I read over by Gen Y hipster/Digital native Brenden Jarvis over at Playing to Win aptly entitled “Don’t stuff up your brand”. I’m informed that there will Be a “don’t stuff up your brand part II” so watch that space if you are interested in marketing/branding issues.
It got me wondering what from an economic perspective would make pizza hut do this? Do they think preferences have changed away from unhealthy pizza towards relatively healthy pasta (as long as you don’t order something with a cream based sauce!) Or maybe pizza is a luxury good and they figure with the impending financial doom we are all facing we will substitute from pizza to pasta (I know I ate A LOT of pasta when I was student!)?
I’m not sure I’m entirely satisfied with either explanation (and that’s an understatement!), anyone have any thoughts?
Agnitio
Congratulations to the Phoenix
Congratulations to the Phoenix for their first win of the regular season (ht Yellow Fever). I should have been there, but I am currently far too swamped with work.
For those that are complaining about the lackluster crowds I have to say – why the hell are the games on Sunday night? Even if the goal is to “attract families” I don’t think Sunday 5pm is a particularly good time. Give us some Friday and Saturday games and you will see a much larger crowd.
P.S. I will reply to all the comments that appeared over the weekend at some point (hopefully tonight) – I’m just a bit too tied up at the moment to answer things cleanly.
P.P.S. Also congratulation to Liverpool for beating Everton, and to Hull City for beating Arsenal 😉
Blog issues
Hi all,
We are currently having some problems with wordpress – namely bits keep on disappearing from our side bar (such as the blog roll!) and piles of rather random spam has been turning up.
Hopefully it is not too annoying – I don’t really know how to fix anything, so we will just have to hope that it gets more sorted over time.
On another note, if anyone wants to put up any posts on economic issues (opinion pieces, essays, focused rants), or has any ideas on something they would eventually like to hear about (although I can’t promise I’ll get around to it 😛 ), either mention it in the comments or email me at the address in the About Us section.
One year of TVHE
Yeppie, we have been around for a year. It all started with this post from Rauparaha (although to be fair there was an introduction post along the lines of this one which got mysteriously deleted).
Don’t have much to say other than that – hopefully the ramblings of a bunch of economists has been useful to someone.
Don’t forget – if you want an issue to get the “economics treatment”, just contact us (details in the about us section).
Also there is a housekeeping matter. If anyone changed their link to us from http://tvhe.wordpress.com to http://tvhe.co.nz then they should probably change it back – we aren’t working from http://tvhe.co.nz anymore 🙂