As some of you will know, I am a landlord and have been, on and off, for the last 20 years. Currently, we have 2 rented houses, our tenants are really great and we are happy, but it hasn’t always been that way. There were the tenants who completely
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While many workers are chilling at home or working reduced hours due to COVID-19 lock-downs many are paying little attention to the huge number of job opportunities that are vanishing every day. A lack of jobs in the future is a scary prospect
So they have done it. Mediaworks have terminated Sean Plunket’s employment on Magic Talk. There will have been a handsome payout for Plunket, never fear, but the whole thing was an overreaction of epic proportions. It seems it all came down to the conversation John Banks had with a
ACT Party “The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “That a scheme of financial inducements
We have all seen how the Big Tech corporations have started piling on to businesses that support conservative views. The fate of Parler is a very good example, but it is easy to just dismiss all that because it is America and ‘Orange Man Bad’. It is a different story,
Ok, so I am a tax nerd. I have seen all sorts of taxes come and go during my career, and I can tell you, within reason, what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you with absolute certainty that capital gains tax will not magically fix the housing
Call me crazy, but I’m not exactly inclined to take seriously lectures on business ethics from someone who makes billions from a genocidal communist regime. Being subjected to pontifications on slavery from someone who cheerfully deals with one of the most notorious slave-owning regimes on the planet just,
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic
Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and
I recently reported on a promising technology whereby processed spinach plants can be turned into carbon nanosheets, which can in turn be used to make batteries and fuel cells more efficient. In a neat and somehow appropriate twist, old batteries can also be recycled into plant food. An Australian recycling
Like the High Priests of old who dispensed their eschatological, imminent destruction, end-of-times world view, the new high priests of Climate dismiss criticism of their faith with all the conceit, arrogance and glibness of their predecessors. We were treated to such a display last week by Dr Rod
We have published a number of articles on this site, notably from Lushington D Brady and more recently from Lionred about the government’s slap in the face to Australia by claiming they should treat the Chinese with more respect. If you hark back a few months, you may remember
