The crisis crisis

[Nick G]

Have a steak wrapped in bacon, you'll get over it and there will be less bacon in the shop to upset others

I read this and am now having my own little crisis!

https://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...024b6489c10f07

[Perry]

Could iPhones become offensive to the blind?

[AvoOnToast]

Wasn’t vegan bacon a thing?

[artemis]

Mr Peters is calling a menswear crisis.

[Perry]

Coffee Crisis
Future of coffee in doubt as 60 per cent of plants now at risk of extinction

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/01/16/future-coffee-doubt-60-per-cent-plants-now-risk-extinction/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/01/17/most-coffee-species-at-risk-of-extinction-due-to-climate-change/#26d58e39cddd

[Learning]

It's ok. Trump said there's no climate change so coffee plants will be fine. Head back in the sand and everything will be great.

[Perry]

Rather than coffee, I think it was bananas, a few years back.

Still see 'em in the shops, though.

[eri]

would be an interesting journalistic story

has the race to be "most read"

led journalism into becoming

the "little boy who cried wolf"

Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index.^[1] From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm"

[Perry]

The insect crisis

[PC]

Hope those dang Australian Guava Moths are the first to go!
For every convict deported - perhaps we could send back a plane load of those?

[Don't believe the Hype]

A housing crisis or a planning crisis? Starting a job, turn up in a new city with family in tow 2 days before works starts and expect to find somewhere to rent... hmm and these folks are teaching our kids.

http://nzh.tw/12203940

[Davo36]

A housing crisis or a planning crisis? Starting a job, turn up in a new city with family in tow 2 days before works starts and expect to find somewhere to rent... hmm and these folks are teaching our kids.

http://nzh.tw/12203940

Stop with your 'facts' dude.

[Perry]

Bank Liquidity Crisis

Economist: Bank capital changes would add thousands to borrowers' bills
13 Mar 2019

Borrowers could see their home loans become $1000 or more dearer every year if Reserve Bank plans to require banks to hold more capital come to fruition. The Reserve Bank released a discussion document before Christmas that proposed requiring banks to hold more money against their lending. The move is designed to improve the strength of the banking system and make bank failures less frequent.

Remind me: when was the last raft of bank failures in NZ?

[Davo36]

BNZ was sold in 1991 I think.

Aussie banks pumped full of FED dollars in 2008. Kept it hidden at the time.

[Perry]

BNZ was sold in 1991 I think.

Right.

Certain Fey Richblights did well out of taxpayer-funded largesse that enabled a cruzy life in Switzerland.

Bungler Bolger was there to help, as I recall.