Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: economic growth

  • Blah blah blah, growth, blah blah blah, record profits

    The ever-hilarious Jonathan Pie on economics. Ehconomics? Who even knows!


  • (Repost) The end of the inequality debate?

    Originally posted at On The Left. Inequality has become a central political issue in New Zealand and around the world. But there’s always been some argument, from the right, that…


  • Alternative numbers

    In my post yesterday I said: … there’s something obscene about the way the economic story gets framed: the figures on a page, the points on an index, the number of dollars…


  • Numbers are meaningless when families are living in cars

    Housing affordability was an issue in the election – but the discussion was derailed by arguments about the intricacies of capital gains tax and exactly how many hundreds of thousands of…


  • Hey Jordan, pick me!

    Yesterday Jordan Williams – head of the Taxpayers’ Onion and courageous fighter for the right to call women ugly in private – sent out a tweet which got me all…