Business
An Example of a Critical Resource Shortage
It’s tough news for anyone with an electricity bill. But you can also be on the other side of it and make money from this trend. When supply and demand is so fundamentally unbalanced, the companies that produce these scarce resources tend to perform extremely well.
CDC Recommends Off-Label Covid Vaccines for the Healthy
Many of Kennedy’s supporters endured censorship, professional repercussions and public ridicule for questioning whether healthy children should receive Covid vaccines. They expected his appointment to bring a decisive change in policy. For many, this will feel like betrayal.
When the Inclusion Stops at Israelis
Nationality is not culpability. Shalev Biton did not need Adidas to endorse his politics. He did not need it to endorse the IDF. He needed one shoe. Adidas should never have apologised for selling it to him.
All Smoke, Mirrors – And Supermarkets
National side-steps the economic drivers they actually control.
They Don’t Make TV Ads Like They Used To
British TV adverts were once worth watching, capturing the public’s imagination even as they drove product sales. Now all we get is forgettable DEI box ticking, says Alexander McKibbin.
Is This Consistent With Centre-Right Values?
Christopher Luxon says National’s proposed breakup of a successful New Zealand owned co-op has been thoroughly investigated. By whom? The only evidence I know of in favour of the proposal is the polls.
NZF’s Company Tax
A 20 per cent SME rate is not a magic wand that will rebuild the country on Tuesday. It leaves more of the profit with the people who hire. Applaud that.
You Can’t Ignore the 2nd-Order Effects
New York’s city-run stores promise cheaper groceries, but their discounts merely transfer costs. Taxpayers foot the bill, while bodegas and grocers lose customers.
The Popularity of Flounder in Massachusetts
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
The Scapegoats Are Now at the Checkout
What the political rush to punish supermarkets reveals about modern campaigning.
The Graveyard of Eastern European Socialism
These are just a few examples demonstrating the impossibility of constructing a rational economic order based on socialist principles.