Rising house prices and unaffordable housing – a decadal problem in New Zealand (and much of the world) that appears intractable to the economic policy approaches governments use to solve it.
Problem solving can require a different view, like on a recent mountain bike ride. I’d tackled the same rock the same wrong way, year after year. It took someone else with a new method to show me what was possible.
Hope is sold in many forms – at container stores, through politicians promises and by vaccine companies. Let’s hope Pfizer’s promises are more robust than Trump’s.
Why does the voting in the US election differ substantially from the poll results? Could be the polls were wrong. Or it could be the polls influenced people to act differently.
In New Zealand we are travelling while, in the rest of the world, people are in lockdown as COVID cases spike. Right now things are good as people to have money they aren’t spending on international travel to put into art, domestic travel, and moving house to somewhere outside Auckland.