Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 am 'pick 'n' mix'
How one donation changed an electorate result; Car dealers cash in on EV subsidies for 'company cars'; Why is student accommodation so costly?; Meta dodgy; Inside record cocoa prices; Not PPPs please
Here’s my top ten links to news, papers and reports elsewhere as at 10 am on Monday February 26:
Today’s must-read: How one miner’s political donation changed an electorate result. Newsroom Jonathan Milne
Local scoop: Car dealers cash in on EV subsidies for ‘company cars’ RNZ Eloise Gibson
Overseas scoop: Meta pushed ahead with a subscription tool that enabled child exploitation, over-riding staff suggestions it take a less lucrative approach. WSJ-gift
Local deep dive: Leonard Powell takes a closer look via RNZ at student accommodation costs.
Overseas deep dive: Javier Blas explains cocoa’s price explosion and what might happen next via Bloomberg-free
Op-Ed: Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes PHCC Eric C. Donny Dorothy K. Hatsukami
Local video: Te Waihanga (The Infrastructure Commission)’s Geoff Cooper talking to Jack Tame via Q+A about our poor infrastructure maintenance.
Overseas video: There’s a financial timebomb in empty office buildings globally, reports Bloomberg-$$$ via Youtube
Local academic paper: The looming spectres of public– private partnerships for hospitals and the resulting decline of government responsibility for comprehensive secondary healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand. NZ Medical Journal editorial
Overseas academic paper: Economic insecurity explains about a third of the recent rise in political populism, says The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence via Cambridge University Press
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