Shameless plug for Share Investor (UPDATE 3)

*Just an additional note to this post yesterday. Deanne Nichols, who has a presence on Share Trader as "Skytower" and "Metro" is behind selling my name to the present "owner" of the Share Investor URL. I'm not sure if they are one and the same.

*There are also comments about this site and its content on the URL. None of it is true. I do not plagiarize work by others and pass it off as my own here and any posts written on other sites are merely to discuss investing.

If any work is by others, I acknowledge where it has come from.

Neither have I been making threats towards anyone.

This individual has been spamming me and my old Share Investor Forum since I banned him from it last August for posting "inappropriate content".

As for the other stuff, well, it's really quite dangerous to be calling me a sex offender and publishing my address and phone number.

Time for some shameless plugging.


You can now get my blog and forum at the following URLS

www.shareinvestor.biz - A range of financial type websites from Share Investor
Shareinvestorforum.com- Share Investor Forum
Shareinvestor.co.nz - Share Investor Forum
Shareinestor.nz - Share Investor Forum
Sharetrader.biz - Share Investor Forum
www.shareinvestorblog.com - Share Investor Blog
www.shareinvestornz.blogspot.com - Share Investor Blog 

I am working on a permanent forum, with some extra special tasty treats to compete with the only other financial forum in New Zealand,Share Trader/Sharechat, run by Phillip Mac Callister of Tarawera Publishing.

The site, will be found at www.shareinvestorforum.com. This is phpBB3 based, the latest in forum technology. We will have a dedicated server and intend to compete head to head with Mr Mac Callister, aggressively and fairly, to see what we can achieve..

Some of you may know that I have had problems securing the NZ Share Investor domain because Deanne Nichols, who calls himself "Metro" and "Skytower" at Share Trader, cyber squatted on it for a year.

Deano no longer holds the name and somehow it has found its way to a Brisbane squatter and something very peculiar is going on there. I am not presently related to that site.

The individual who has registered the domain is Lincon Peterson.

The name Share Investor and the logo above are registered trademarks and cannot be used by the Brisbane leach and I have since filed a dispute with the domain name disputes people.

If you are reading this Mr squatter, you have my intellectual property and I will see you in court if need be.

I don't give up, ever.

I wanted to put this lot on public record and hope you guys are not too bored with this running saga and will support my future endeavors.

Cheers, Darren

*Just a footnote, I finally got control of www.shareinvestor.co.nz in Jan 2010 after 3 years of trying.


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Labour first to break own Electoral Finance Act

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The purpose of the Bill is clear

The Labour Party has been the first political party to breach the Electoral Finance Act, but it is to be let off with a warning, friends in high places I think.

The Electoral Commission met on Wednesday to consider whether a number of political pamphlets breached the new act.

It found that the Labour Party's booklet entitled We're Making a Difference is an election advertisement, and needed an authorisation statement.

The commission says that as it is the first breach of the Electoral Finance Act, it will use this as an example.

But it says political parties are on notice that any similar breaches will be referred to police.

As is usual with grubby, raincoat wearing socialists, it is a case of do as I say, not as I do and the state apparatus has fallen in behind. Isn't the example better made by prosecuting rather than letting the law breakers get off?

Absolutely. But we shouldn't be surprised of course. This bunch passed retrospective law to make stealing taxpayers money to buy the 2005 election legal.

There is still no news about the $100,000.00 loan made to the Labour party by Owen Glenn after the 2005 election and not disclosed.



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Charity begins at the money source

Winston Peters, in much happier times.

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You just know it is election year when members of Winston "Baubles" Peters party, NZ First start poking their tongues out at immigrants.

Once again it was Asian immigrants who bore the brunt of the poodle party's wrath and ironically it was a 10 pound pom who was the chief protagonist.

Appealing to NZ Firsts near dead voter constituency of over 80 year olds who thinks Winston is "cute" in that Italian suit and $200 dollar haircut, immigration looks set to become the party's main platform on which to launch itself for the election.

Fantastic, xenophobia, attacks on journalists and giving to worthy causes will be Winston's three key points this year-hold your hand like a horizontal scout salute when you make those points OK.

Unfortunately for us, Winston's largess in giving to charity means we miss out on the $158,000 he purloined from the taxpayer wallet to get himself elected in 2005. Hell, even the biggest bandits of them all, The Labour Party, paid back the more than $800,000 they stole to buy the same election.

In fact I think I may employ Winston's "charitable deductions" when it comes to paying the alarm mans bill on Friday.

No Sir, I don't believe I will pay your bill, I would like to nominate we pay the food bill this week with it instead. The alarm man is bigger than me, and I suspect I might get a well deserved thick ear, even at the mere suggestion.

The arrogance of the man is only surpassed by his obvious vanity and lack of ability to do his job.

Like alot of parliamentarians, he simply is a useless wanker.

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Wheres the Love? [Extended Political Animal Edition]

Government cost to business hasn't been ameliorated by today's quadrangle of
State interference that kicked off, appropriately, on April 1.


Just we wee addendum to the original article. In parliament today, listeners would have heard Michael Cullen et al waxing lyrically about how much the Labour Government had "given" to New Zealanders over the years and the latest raft on handouts, mentioned below were added to the long list.

Labour gave us free student loans, more holidays, 20 free hours childcare,higher wages,more holidays,corporate tax cuts, yadda, yadda.

The point is clear to me and underlined by a great speech by Act's Heather Roy who just happened to mention that Labour gave us none of those things. It was our money to begin with and how about giving some of it back so we can make our own decisions about what we want to do with our moola!


Originally published @ Share Investor Blog 1 April 2008

I cant help myself talking about it, politics is intrinsically linked to investing and business and in New Zealand our economy is hugely influenced by what the government of the day does to it more than most global economies.

The introduction and trumpeting today by our Labour government of 4 things that "they are proud of" that will "help business" has less to do with helping business but more to do with election year and keeping control over the economy and its participants.

The much ballyhooed 3% cut in corporate tax rates, taxpayer handouts to business for research and development, employer contributions to Kiwisaver and the lift of the minimum wage to 12 bucks all run against each other in their purpose and execution.

The over hyped tax cut and R & D subsidy for our corporates hides the fact that Kiwisaver, the associated paper work and the lift in wages easily dwarfs the meager 3% cut already.

Include all the other government imposed costs to business over the last 9 years, like higher ACC, energy and carbon taxes and nonsense like employer funded maternity leave(what is wrong with the family paying, a novel idea I know, but just an idea) and an extra weeks leave for workers and even the blind, deaf, dribbling and Labour voters(OK maybe that is a stretch) can see how far behind business is.

The tax cut would have to be at least down to a 25% rate to get business back to where it was in 1999, in terms of costs and return of capital.

That way, business could afford to fund R & D from cashflow instead of another army of extra State funded bureaucrat's handing out taxpayer money to those they see should get our money-I mean these people picking business winners? I doubt many of them can remember their PIN numbers let alone pick good businesses.

What is missing from today's election focused "take more it and give some back" approach to business is a bold statement to business, especially small business, the back bone of this country, that the country values your contribution and we are going to reward your entrepreneurship.

State attached funding via R & D subsidies and other quasi government welfare schemes, extra business expense and paperwork isn't a good way to show that we love business.

I fear the present administration doesn't like the independence and confidence that self employment or owning your own business brings and are doing everything they can to inextricably link business owners quest for economic freedom by weighting business and therefore the economy down with cost and bureaucracy.

A 3% company tax cut isn't going to cut it for those hard working individuals who own companies and in fact bypasses those who are sole traders entirely.

Its time to show business we love them.

Not the opposite.


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