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GAMBLING WITH OTHER PEOPLE�S MONEY

The Fine Line Between Gambling and Investment
Listener: 3 August, 2011.
Keywords: Business & Finance;
Various people have produced their slant on the global financial crisis. The film Inside Job had little new in it, although some found it valuable. I greatly enjoyed the Circa play-reading of David Hare�s The Power of Yes � it may have been [...]

WHO WANTS ASSET SALES?

Those who favour privatisation can be divided into four camps �
Listener: 5 March, 2011.
Keywords: Business & Finance; Governance; Macroeconomics & Money;
Ideologues who hate the Government succeeding and want to scale it back, even if it is costly, as was privatising the Telecom monopoly. They would do the same to the three electricity companies. Given that [...]

THE PARTY IS OVER

The Great Gatsby recognises the essential role of the economy in human experience.
Listener: 8 January 2011
Keywords: Business & Finance; Literature and Culture; Political Economy & History;
On occasions, Auckland has outbreaks of Great Gatsby parties. This name alludes to the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel, narrated by Nick Carraway who lives on New York�s Long Island, [...]

CHRISTCHURCH AS A GLOBAL CITY

For the 131st AGM of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association, 13 September, 2001 in Christchurch. (Revised)
Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation and Trade; Growth & Innovation;
This presentation takes place barely a week after the Great Canterbury Earthquake. It is a tribute to the fortitude of those who are here and their ancestors who put [...]

THE BOTTOM LINE

Selling products around the world is much more complicated than it once seemed.
Listener: 4 September, 2010
Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation & Trade;
There is no problem understanding why Fonterra exports milk products to China. New Zealand is a very efficient producer of milk, and it sells its large surplus offshore. But why does Fonterra have a [...]

BIRD IN THE MIRE

Plan for the inconceivable, so you don�t get caught up the creek without a Plan B.
Listener: 12 June 2010.
Keywords: Business & Finance;
In November 1967, the inconceivable happened: the UK devalued the pound. The following weekend Leyland Motor Corporation implemented its Plan B, announcing new offshore prices for its cars. Much later, British Motor Holdings did [...]

TAKING STOCK

Why more townies should spend an occasional day on a farm.
Listener: 17 April, 2010.
Keywords: Business & Finance;
Occasionally a townie should go to a field day on farming, as I did recently at Glenside Station, near Gladstone in the Wairarapa. Covering 1125ha and carrying about 10,000 stock units � mainly sheep and beef but also deer [...]

COMPETING INTERESTS

Is the Government tipping the balance away from consumers?
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Listener: 18 April 2009
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Keywords: Business & Finance;
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Some years ago I was involved in a merger case before the Commerce Commission. The chief executives of the firms involved did not know whether to co-operate, which was the (desired) outcome if the commission approved the merger, [...]

REVOLUTIONISING THE WAY WE SHOP: Products Talking to One Another

Presentation to �Connecting the Dots� a conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of global standards (bar codes) in New Zealand. 25 February 2009.
Keywords: Business & Finance;
�I cant remember bar codes and scanners being introduced into my shopping life. Except when I try really hard I cant REALLY remember what went before. Thirty years ago we [...]

PRODUCTS TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER

This is a report I prepared for GS1 to celebrate their 30th birthday in February 2009. . The full report is available from http://www.gs1nz.org/
Keywords: Business & Finance;
: Business & Finance; Executive Summary
This report is about the GS1 Universal Product Code, its history, its uses and its future uses.
There are three basic messages:
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Brian Easton