Dairy prices rise modestly; US retail data good; Canada achieves 2% inflation; China on holiday; UST 10yr 3.64%; gold down and oil up again, NZ$1 = 61.8; TWI = 69.4

You clearly didnt read the article.  Your architect did the calculations, most don't.  Most just apply the individual elements building code requirements.  Here's the rest of the paragraph

They calculated the added costs for building two real-life home designs complying with the 2023 standards, versus complying with the old standards, including labour and materials. They found costs were much lower when the architects and designers worked out heat loss from the whole building to see whether the design as a whole complied with the rules, rather than treating each part of the building separately.

Costs were much higher when they simply copied the minimum insulation values for each individual part of a house (windows, walls, roof) and put it all together in a house - currently the most common method of meeting the standards.

So you paid the extra design costs to do the calculations, and now everyone else will as well.  

When someone is taking on a mortgage to pay for those upfront costs, that cost is then paid for over 30 years and at a considerable amount of interest.  Who wants to pay an extra $3000 a year in interest costs to save $300 a year in heating bills?

Whoooosh

Great question.

Firstly, your house didn't cost any pies. 

Both the house, and the pies, represent energy expended, and materials (call them resources) used. From there it gets complex, and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics comes into play, as does the other (non-energy) meaning of entropy. The pies probably decayed faster than the house... but both are permanently deteriorating, trending to zero use as items (and presumably of recycling-only value; composting etc) 

The society you are part of - both then and now, is the problem. Within it, you may well equate one of something with 100k of something else - but if the whole is dependent on a finite resource (fossil energy, say) and is depleting that resource at an exponentially-increasing rate (2%, say) THEN THE WHOLE IS BECOMING POORER. 

Your question reflects the failure of economics, as a discipline, then; it ignores essential inputs/outputs. The word they use is 'externalities'. It is incorrect. Invalid. As is a wealth-token system which also ignores those 'externalities'. The chimera worked during the first half of planetary draw-down - it cannot during the last half. 

Go well...

It's a 'now', just not entirely visible to use ordinary folk.

Ukraine will avail western long range missiles and strike targets deep in Russia. Russia will retaliate with its equivalents, selectively to begin with, targets likely in the Baltic States, maybe Poland too. That will see continental NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine with capacity to push Russian forces back towards the starting lines of the conflict. The large question then is whether or not Mr Putin categorises that as an existential threat. There you go, who needs Tom Clancy to predict the commencement of WW3.

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Do you think Hezbollah got the message?

More like a hatchet man



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"Levy’s style had radically changed upon his return to the fold in 2009, with what was viewed by many as an increasingly top-down, controlling and destructive approach. In each of the positions, he came in with an embellished assertion that he had inherited a financial mess and was the right person to fix it.

In each of the four DHBs, the chief executives resigned; Canterbury’s David Meates survived longer but almost all the senior leadership team also resigned. Morale also plummeted (less so in Waitemata but dramatically in Counties Manukau and Canterbury). Ironically, following his appointment as their chairs, the three Auckland DHBs went from financial surpluses to deficits."