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Simon Louisson disagrees with my view on former Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr so I invited him to write a guest column. This is free to all to read.
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Fiji’s Rabuka failed one of politics’ most basic rules: getting the numbers. He fell short by a single vote of securing the three-quarters majority needed for constitutional change. In politics, failure to add up can be fatal.
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Luxon sold multiple houses last year for an estimated (tax-free) profit of $500,000 by around September. Had he done nothing else with that money except put it into a basic share fund (tracking the S&P500 for example), it would have returned approx. $40,000 (as of around 10 days ago (!)). That translates to roughly 25% more than the aver…
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like a boa constrictor would a rodent that it has wrapped itself around on the jungle floor
[Your boomer readership is going to go off like a frog in a sock when they read this - calling the IDF a predator, calling the ME a jungle...]
, an assumption that has been shown to be correct --> , a predictable followup that has now been realized.
[it was a conclusion inferred from the indicator, not an assumption]
Al, Ridwan, Hezbollah’s special forces, --> Al-Ridwan (Hezbollah’s special forces)
[I initially thought you need an 'and' somewhere in here, OR - as turns out to be the case after googling - al-ridwan are the special forces in question. This fix means people dont have to guess as I did if there are one (the H special forces) 2 (al-ridwan and HSF) or three (AL & RIDWAN, & HSF) being referred to. Its beyond the Oxford Comma problem for those of us that are totally igorant of ME militaria! I know its a quote but its punctuationally mangled and doesnt make sense]
state, put --> state, which was put
out, due --> out due