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The article is also a great tutorial on how to reverse engineer an online business model. Read it all here.

The excellent blog at interest.co.nz have a daily briefing that covers today’s move.

I may do a couple of extra graphs, using different commodities which I’m sure will show that priced in many of these the DOW is significantly up, over the last few months.

The price drop will worsen New Zealand’s trade deficit, and suppress domestic demand, especially in the rural economy. Rural land prices look very inflated. There should be some benefit to inflation with reduction in prices of milk, cheese and butter.

Recent prices from Agridata.co.nz illustrate the new environment.

Real estate investment has been one of the worst performing asset classes over the last few years. Some brave people though are buying cheap foreclosed real estate, doing some quick, cheap remodelling and putting the house back on the market for a significant mark up, all in the hope of a large quick profit.

In this video Jim the Realtor walks us through one such property and with his commentary gives us a breakdown of his estimate of the costs and what the vendor is hoping for.

More here