Evidence Points to Willis Forcing Out Orr
Nothing our finance minister says about economics makes sense to me. It only can be understood in terms of back-room deals responding to lobbying from Big Business.
Business
Lord of the What Now?
Seriously, how dumb can you get? When I first saw ‘Lord of the Fries’, I didn’t think Lord of the Rings.
The Sniff Test
The government’s use of urgency to change pay equity laws doesn’t pass the sniff test but at least now MPs seem to know what a woman is.
In Today’s NZ, the Enigma Code Would’ve Never Been Cracked
Why? Because the smartest and hardest working are being shafted by dummies.
Retail Crime Is Under-Reported by 40%
Retail NZ is urging all businesses to report every incident to police, regardless of the scale.
Trump Hits Back Against the Movie Industry
The NZ movie industry has been hit with 100% tariffs, a month after Nats announced its billion dollar subsidies would continue.
The Drivers of Prosperity
Why did the Industrial Revolution take off in Britain almost 100 years before it did in France and the rest of Europe and America?
‘Art of the Deal’ at the Vatican
The Russian conscription is like having to fill a bucket with holes in it. Though 1,000 are conscripted a day, it is thought that 1,500 are dying a day. The Kremlin is running out of fuel and armour.
The RBNZ Is Told to Cut ANZ’s Requirements
Yet Australia’s authorities have ordered ANZ to increase them.
Willis Wants Budgets to Be ‘Lolly Scrambles’
Her pre-budget speech is out-of-touch Wellington jokey silliness.
Trump’s Declining Approval: Worrisome or Illusory?
This high-risk, high-reward presidency is being severely tested.
Claire Bleakley on the Gene Tech Bill
She is asking for the bill to be withdrawn and rewritten or amendments put into existing legislation: the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act 1996.
Is This America’s ‘Suez Moment’?
This month we witnessed the same pattern. After Liberation Day, the US stock, bond, and currency markets all crashed (and gold surged to $3500 as a result). Substantial foreign pressure mounted.
This May Be as Good as It Gets
NZ and Australia face a complicated puzzle when it comes to supermarket prices.
They Want a Licence to Kill
The average number of sunshine hours in New Zealand is above 2,000 per year. In the United Kingdom, it averages around 1,350.