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Welcome to Emma Geraghty as a new interest.co.nz journalist
February 4th, 2010
I’d like to welcome Massey University journalism course graduate Emma Geraghty to interest.co.nz as a full-time journalist.
Emma will be covering banking, insurance, personal finance, real estate and the economy for interest.co.nz. Emma completed an Arts degree majoring in Media and Political Science at Canterbury University before doing a post-graduate course in International Relations.
Emma arrives as journalist Alex Tarrant prepares to leave us (hopefully only briefly) to formally study journalism at Massey University in Wellington for a year. Alex has worked for Interest.co.nz for the last 18 months while completing his studies at Auckland University in Media Studies, Political Science and Economics. We very much hope to drag Alex back in to work for Interest.co.nz when he completes his course. Alex formally finishes with us next Friday. We’ll open up a special packet of gummy bears to see him off.
Meanwhile, we’re also pleased to tell everyone that Gareth Vaughan (pictured left), the Deputy Editor of Fairfax’s The Independent newspaper, will be joining us as a full-time senior journalist from early April as Interest.co.nz expands its coverage of banking, finance and the economy.
Gareth is one of New Zealand’s most experienced financial news-breakers with a long history of financial journalism online both here in New Zealand with Stuff.co.nz/BusinessDay , The Independent, the NZ Herald, and in Europe with MarketWatch.com and FTMarketWatch.com.
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Excellent news for Interest.co.nz and the principle of independent journalism in NZ – as part of the real estate industry we welcome the addition of a further skilled contributor to interest.co.nz professional coverage of real estate.
Congratulations to David and Bernard on the continued success of the site
February 4th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Well hello there Emma…!!
Alex Tarrant……Good luck in your Studies… may you prosper. have enjoyed many of your columns…….I think you started some real yank em out o the woodwork threads in your time …didn’t ya ya scamp…
February 4th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Some original content, with real in-depth investigations into the local finance sector would be nice .. rather than providing links and/or reporting company announcements.
February 4th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
All well and good to bring some fresh faced outrageously pretty young thing to join the team ; but of crucial importance is whether you are willing to give free gummy bears to the more dedicated & personable bloggers , Gareth ?
February 4th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Ha ha!! yeah cough up wit those bears Gareth
February 4th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Curtis,
Here we go.
http://www.interest.co.nz/ratesblog/index.php/2010/02/04/nz-credit-card-fee-reforms-risk-handing-extra-profit-to-retailers-repeating-australias-mistakes/
cheers
Bernard
February 4th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Well done bringing Gareth over Bernard, a great addition to the team.
February 4th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I get alot of information & education from the daily supply of links / Top 10’s / fellow bloggers / company announcements . This is a one stop-shop for a smorgasbord of the financially weird / wonderful /& worrying . Original content is an added bonus .
Welcome to Emma & Gareth . Sorry to see you go , Alex ……….. Think it’s time for Hickey to do a refresher course ?
February 4th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Brilliant
February 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Hehe, welcome Emma and Gareth to the crazys’ sandpit!
February 4th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Great to see the expansion and look forward to their contributions.
Cheers
February 4th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Roger Thompson Says:
“All well and good to bring some fresh faced outrageously pretty young thing to join the team ;”
Is that not politically incorrect these days?
Anyway I cant comment..Im married, can do anything I like, so long as I have the wifes permission.
All the best Alex, sure you will do well now you have a new look, a shave and reasonable hair cut m8..you where a bit scruffy compared to your successor
And Welcome Gareth….I expect so indepth research and comments ..get down to the nitty gritty BS of a lot of the media press releases some of these so called experts put out
February 4th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Ya think that I offended Gareth , with that ” welcome ” , Steps ?
February 4th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Many thanks Akex for your contributions and assistance over the past 18 months – and all the very best for the future.
Welcome Gareth and Emma to the interest co nz team – which seems to be going from strength to strength.
Best regards,
Hugh Pavletich
February 4th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Alex, good luck. I liked your many of your articles and your responsiveness to queries, comments, etc. Party hard pal. Learn well. …. and enjoy.
PS – Fred, have you worked it out yet?
PPS – Roger, lady on deck, watch the …. ahh, sorry, forgot, I said I’d get down there and ignore that kind of ‘Bumper Sticker’ crap, etc. Suck them bears pal. (Happy New Year.)
February 4th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Enjoy your year Alex,it’s been great sharing on the middle east situation. Hope you like your year in Wellington. Look forward to your return
Andrew
Wally look out
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAid0.8z1qBs&pos=6
February 4th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Language , LES ! You are naughty . And lecturing me , the model of sobriety and good manners . Shame , my good man , …………….. . Gummy bears you say ? Holy shit Batman , ……. .. let’s at ‘em !
February 4th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Hey Alex, good luck with the course and have fun in Welly!
Welcome new recruits – congrats Bernard on the great hires.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Roger Thompson Says:
“Ya think that I offended Gareth , with that ” welcome ” , Steps ?”
Dunno know m8…bit of an open question..do we really what to go there lol
February 5th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
goodluck Alex, appeared you were developing a reasonable knowledge and had taken the fork in the road leading to integrity, dont let them lead you past to many closed doors down their, insist on having a look for yourself in every one.
To the new additions, let begin the collecting of pluses and minuses toward the rare cross-breed that will obtain the diploma of both integrity and knowledge.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Gareth, a few more following the trail of global connectivity used to defraud nationstate treasuries would have me ticking pluses
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/gareth-vaughan/news/article.cfm?a_id=206&objectid=10334204
February 5th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Gareth, how about articles disclosing that the Executive Director of the Bank Of England now states that the State has routinely become the lender of last resort to the bankers not the other way around, or as I have presented evidence that the reserves follow the issuance of created credit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/06/will-hutton-city-finance-budget
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2009/speech409.pdf
these paragraphs below sum up beautifully what a great commercial pyramid scam pioneers like John Key have turned the banking system into:
” Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Henry M. Paulson Jr. recalls dining with some of Wall Street’s most powerful bankers on June 26, 2007, not long before the credit bubble imploded.
“All were concerned with excessive risk taking in the markets and appalled by the erosion of underwriting standards,” he writes in his penetrating memoir, “On the Brink.” Yet they felt forced by competitive pressure to make loans they didn’t like, the former U.S. Treasury secretary says.
“Isn’t there something you can do to order us not to take all of these risks?” was the gist of a question posed by Charles O. Prince, the chief executive who was still dancing at Citigroup Inc. as the bank bumbled toward disaster.
That comment encapsulates the bizarre tango that enveloped Paulson as he struggled along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and New York Fed chief Timothy F. Geithner to save the free-market system from itself. Banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions were playing a game of chicken, the economic equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Paulson’s mission was to prevent mutually assured economic destruction.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a.RNgXE6N2WM
I alledge they have not learned a damn thing and although they may have got the symptoms to temprarily let up, the tempature down and the rash to settle, the terminal cancer has not been touched.