[DaveW]

What I've been seeing with my own business seems to be happening country wide.
The economy's booming!
Exports are up by several Billion, retails up, manufacturing's up, construction is thru the roof.

Small business earnings up year on year, despite Covid-19

The manufacturing and construction sectors are the big revenue winners this side of lockdown, according to small business data from the accounting software firm Xero.

www.rnz.co.nz

Main problem at the mo is that the massive increase in trade mean's there is now a huge shortage in shipping space to get stuff into and out of NZ, the ports are jam packed!
Next years Marins are built, paid for, in the shipping containers but have been sitting in Asia on the docks for a few months as there is no available space on ships.

 

[boostindoubles]

Every grocery store in my town is completely out of canned pumpkin.

 

[kidwoo]

New zealand...........new zealand......sounds familiar


That's a neighborhood in boston right?

 

[Westy]

I assume this means you guys need to import engineeers?

 

[jstuhlman]

Every grocery store in my town is completely out of canned pumpkin.

 

[boostindoubles]

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Opportunity knocks in the strangest places

 

[DaveW]

Yep it's official, GDP growth (seasonally adjusted) is at 14%
Hard part for me personally has been scrambling to get enough stock to sell.

GDP figures show economy rebounds from recession

The New Zealand economy grew a record 14 percent in the three months ended September driven by surging consumer spending.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

[DaveW]

Oh and related......

Government finances heading for faster surplus than expected - Treasury figures

A faster and stronger economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic will see the government's finances headed back to surplus sooner than expected, according to the Treasury.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

[kidwoo]

Hard part for me personally has been scrambling to get enough stock to sell

Itsa fuckin hard knock life bro.

Stay strong.

 

[6thElement]

Oh and related......

Government finances heading for faster surplus than expected - Treasury figures

A faster and stronger economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic will see the government's finances headed back to surplus sooner than expected, according to the Treasury.

www.rnz.co.nz

Surplus?

You should immediately spend a trillion dollars a year on excessive defense spending in case Tasmania gets aggressive.

 

[Full Trucker]

Seriously... I hear those Tasmanians can be real devils.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Seriously... I hear those Tasmanians can be real devils.

 

[SkaredShtles]

 

[6thElement]

Clearly NZ needs to share some of their actual freedom with Freedumland.

https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1339654246199943168/photo/1

 

[Sandro]

Clearly NZ needs to share some of their actual freedom with Freedumland.

https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1339654246199943168/photo/1

Poland and Hungary barely cracking the top 50, and since this is based on 2018 data, I suspect that they would rank quite a bit lower today, as might the US. I wonder where Hong Kong will be the next time they recalculate.