WORLD BEEF PRICES • CURRENCIES OF EU & UK WEAKENING • CHINA’S ECONOMY WEAKENING
GDP COMPARISON • GDP = C + I + G + NE • USA = 68% + 17% + 18% + -3%
GDP COMPARISON • GDP = C + I + G + NE • USA = 68% + 17% + 18% + -3% • GER = 54% + 21% + 19% + 7%
GDP COMPARISON • GDP = C + I + G + NE • USA = 68% + 17% + 18% + -3% • GER = 54% + 21% + 19% + 7% • CHINA = 38% + 43% + 14% + 5%
WORLD BEEF PRICES • CURRENCIES OF EU & UK WEAKENING • CHINA’S ECONOMY WEAKENING • US ECONOMY RELATIVELY STRONG
WORLD BEEF PRICES • CURRENCIES OF EU & UK WEAKENING • CHINA’S ECONOMY WEAKENING • US ECONOMY RELATIVELY STRONG • DOLLAR STRENGTHENING
WORLD BEEF PRICES • CURRENCIES OF EU & UK WEAKENING • CHINA’S ECONOMY WEAKENING • US ECONOMY RELATIVELY STRONG • DOLLAR STRENGTHENING • THAT MAKES US BEEF MORE EXPENSIVE IN FOREIGN MARKETS
WORLD BEEF PRICES • CURRENCIES OF EU & UK WEAKENING • CHINA’S ECONOMY WEAKENING • US ECONOMY RELATIVELY STRONG • DOLLAR STRENGTHENING • THAT MAKES US BEEF MORE EXPENSIVE IN FOREIGN MARKETS • IMPORTED BEEF IS LESS EXPENSIVE IN US MARKETS
GLOBALISM WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF IT AROUND THE WORLD? • BREXIT • NEW ZEALAND • AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND • RENTED A HARLEY FOR A WEEK
NEW ZEALAND • RENTED A HARLEY FOR A WEEK • RODE THE CORROMANDEL TRAIL
NEW ZEALAND • RENTED A HARLEY FOR A WEEK • RODE THE CORROMANDEL TRAIL • FIRST SHARE A 2 MINUTE VIDEO OF THAT RIDE
NEW ZEALAND • RENTED A HARLEY FOR A WEEK • RODE THE CORROMANDEL TRAIL • FIRST SHARE A 2 MINUTE VIDEO OF THAT RIDE • NARRATOR OF VIDEO IS MY NEW FRIEND BAZ HOWIE FROM NZ
AFTER SHORT VIDEO WILL SHARE WITH YOU BAZ’S INSIDE KNOWLEDGE OF TRADE AGREEMENTS BASED ON HIS INTERNATIONAL BANKING & TRADING EXPERIENCE https://youtu.be/_qbHuz967AE
BAZ is one interesting guy • Baz and Ali own Bularangi Harley Tours of New Zealand (Bularangi means Welcome to Heaven) • When I learned Baz had previously worked for multinational investment banks, I had to ask him, “What do you think of TPP?” • Baz’s response was so extraordinary when Bill Bullard asked me to speak here, I emailed Baz to please send me an email with those thoughts. • Let me read you that email…
Brian, very good to hear from you. I am very happy for you to use myself as a reference point for your presentations. The TPPA is evil and it’s being pushed by corporate thugs and politicians with only their individual benefits in mind by way of undisclosed offshore payouts by big business. My personal view on Free Trade is that I am all for free trade and breaking down tariffs and duties between countries so long as the individual workers of those manufacturing or commodity producing nations are fairly treated in terms of health care, remuneration & job security. Free trade should all be about a fair deal for both sides of the trade, whether you are the consumer or the producer.
The ISDS proceedings are a means for big business being able to create an outrageous asset on which they secure loans. It seems BIG corporations use trade agreements to create protection from any legislation that governments impose against their immoral trade practices, strip away workers rights, the ability for the average bloke to create a better future for himself and his family. The US govt. is like the NZ govt., it does not run surpluses it runs deficit after deficit and therefore has no money, so it’s the middle classes who payout and let’s face it, no BIG govt. in the world wants a strong middle class.
Here’s a brief to my background, I left school at 17 with no higher education. I built houses in Christchurch, NZ, before heading overseas to Britain. I settled into a banking career there in 1993. First worked for a small derivatives bank called Bank Julius Baer, as a dealer’s runner collecting trade tickets and entering them into the back office settlement systems. A few months later I joined Bank of America and worked on the merger with South Pacific which was a big derivates trading house. The portion of the merger I worked on was the merger of the swaps portfolios. It’s here that I learned all about the bond and derivatives markets. Mixed with a bit of travel and a bit of work in the banks; I moved from bank to bank working on short term contracts and being paid very well. I worked in a few other banks such as Chemical Bank, Tokai Mitsubishi bank, Swiss Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Then I landed a job at Salomon Brothers in London, this was by far the best job I had in the industry, I worked in the back office, the front office and the trading floor. My job at Salomon brothers was a business analyst. I worked there for about 3 years. Then went snowboarding for a year in Lake Tahoe and New Zealand and ended up in Sydney, Australia. I struggled to find work in the banking industry there because I had no degree. It seemed my experience in London was worth nothing there. After 3 months in Sydney, I got a call from Salomon Brothers in London and they wanted me back, so they flew me there in 1998 where I worked through the Travelers’ Group merger which created Salomon Smith Barney and later the merger with Citibank creating Citigroup. I was Senior Business Analyst & Vice President by the time I left Citigroup in 2007. I had worked in Interest Rate Derivatives and Commodities and helped build the energy trading desk in London.
By now we were Too Big To Fail, so govt. guaranteed that our reckless ways would be covered by middle class America. During my time in the industry, I had witnessed systematic abuse of moral trading practices by the bank and seen the creation of credit derivatives unfold. I observed quantative mathematicians create extremely complex trade strategies that no one understood and seen massive bonuses paid out on these positions decades before they were due to expire. I saw credit derivates traders & managers flee the bank prior to the 2008 Banking Crisis.
I oppose the Free Trade Agreement because I believe that it is all about securing perceived future profits for Big Corporations to do whatever they want to do and to diminish the middle classes of the world to prevent them rising up against the big corporations. A lot of New Zealanders oppose the TPPA because of the secrecy behind the deal and the negative impacts to our health care system, environment protection, social policy where we see an attempt by our BIG govt. to corporatize our education system, social welfare system, prison service, food security and aged care. The Govt. guarantees commercial banks speculative and high risk trading practices by offering to bail them out with middle class money if they lose their bets. They ignore our human rights bill and the defining document of our country called the “Treaty of Waitangi” which is the closest thing we have to a constitution. That treaty protects us personally and the environment we live in.
Our Govt. is clearing a path for Monsanto to come and take over our food programs. Anadarko, the oil exploration company have been here and have left stating they have no interest in our energy fields, but they’re waiting for the TPPA to be signed and will return to drill once they have assurance that no one can stop them. Our people have been out to voice their opposition with peaceful protest and our government has responded with military might. The government videotapes participants in these peaceful protests. We’ve seen our govt. take full control of the media and have stripped away our rights through secretive law changes that go on in the middle of the night or during major world sports events when our people are distracted. This is all starting to sound like Germany prior to the rise of Hitler. Bear in mind that our Prime Minister is a Rothschild’s man, his lawyer is Rothschild’s, our central bank is Rothschild’s controlled, so he works for Rothschild’s first and New Zealand second. He is using our military to protect his people who go out onto the streets to preach the goodness of the TPPA. Starting to sound like George Orwell’s 1984…
I left the industry in July 2007 and moved back to New Zealand to run a tourism company with my wife. Today we own vacation rental houses in Fiji & New Zealand plus run guided fly fishing tours as well as Harley Davidson tours and rentals in New Zealand. We have recently started up a Gold and Silver trading business. Regards, Baz
After riding the Corromandel and the coast of New Zealand for five days it was time to visit a laundromat in Taupo. Parked my Harley next to a telephone pole then saw this sign
Was a day late for the protest! Week in New Zealand was ending but amazed at attention given there to TPP!
BIGGEST CATTLE RANCHES • NORTHERN AUSTRALIA • SOME RIGHT ON OCEAN • CLOSE TO CHINA & JAPAN MARKETS • MARKETS ARE FAR FROM THE USA
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA • RANCH AREA EQUIVALENT TO SIZE OF KANSAS
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA • RANCH AREA EQUIVALENT TO SIZE OF KANSAS • OWNERS WILLING TO SELL
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA • RANCH AREA EQUIVALENT TO SIZE OF KANSAS • OWNERS WILLING TO SELL • AUSTRALIANS PROTESTED
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA • RANCH AREA EQUIVALENT TO SIZE OF KANSAS • OWNERS WILLING TO SELL • AUSTRALIANS PROTESTED • AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STOPPED SALE
CHINA ACTS TO SECURE BEEF • GROUP FROM CHINA ATTEMPTED TO BUY LARGEST RANCH IN AUSTRALIA • RANCH AREA EQUIVALENT TO SIZE OF KANSAS • OWNERS WILLING TO SELL • AUSTRALIANS PROTESTED • AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STOPPED SALE • BUT COULD GOV’T STOP SALE AFTER TPPA?
Australia Minority Party Leader • SCRAP FREE-TRADE MENTALITY • BUY MORE LOCAL PRODUCTS • PROPERLY SCRUTINISE FOREIGN INVESTMENT
GLOBALISM NEWS AUSTRALIA • AUSTRALIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY WILL SHUT DOWN IN 2017 DUE TO STRONG AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR • AUSTRALIA JUST BLOCKED CHINESE ACQUISITION OF CONTROLLING STAKE IN THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST ELECTRICITY NETWORK
GLOBALISM WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF IT AROUND THE WORLD? • BREXIT • NEW ZEALAND • AUSTRALIA • USA
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN • TRADE IS AN ISSUE
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