Racism And Equality

See what this election's going to come down to. It's not about these policies. Policies are no one's interested in policies or numbers or diatribe. What they're into, do you like what's going on broadly in this country? Roughly speaking, do you like what's going on in this country? If you do, you're going to vote for the current lot. Do you not like what's going on in this country? If you don't, you're going to vote for the other lot. There's only two lots to vote for. It's it's the ones that are in and the ones that aren't. It's as simple as that. Now, business and sustainability. We've got new work from the sustainable business network. They looked at 42 startups. People like the Palmerston North base Bio Lumic, uh, which has developed seed enhancement tech based on ultraviolet light. Now the theme of the study is big profits remain elusive. The number of companies reporting profit margins above 20% dropped from 17% in 2024 to just 3% last year. 31% were breaking even, which is up from 17% in 2024. So that's encouraging. Uh, those reporting in operating loss drop from 43% to 39%. Uh so that's encouraging as well. Next question, I don't know if it's covered in the study, is when you're a start-up, you don't want to be making profits, do you want to plow all your money back into the business to grow the business? Isn't that part of what's going on? Biggest challenges for all these businesses remain access to capital, which I find fascinating because there's no shortage of money for AI and space stuff. So maybe some of the uh other stuff is a bit pedestrian for the people with money. Building customer demand is an issue and awareness, and government policies being unsupported. That's the that's the age old red tape thing. Right, the field days, uh, my maintenance guy went to the field days. He couldn't do my property. He said, I'm not coming to your property uh this week until later in the week because I'm at the field days, and he had the time of his life. So he's thinking life is wonderful at the moment, and uh Greg was telling us earlier on the money's there. I'm reading also over the weekend that farming debt is down five billion. I'm assuming a lot of that's out of the dairy payout. So the first thing they did was pay off their debt, and that leaves farmers particularly well balanced at the moment in terms of equity v debt. So everyone seemed to have a good time at field day. So we'll have a look at this in the next half hour of the program. Do we have a deal or not? We'll go to the states on Iran, and of course the Prime Minister in the studio after 7 30 as the Mike Asking Breakfast rolls on for this Monday morning. UFC Freedom 250.