Are Robotaxis Prepared to Pick up Fares?
The hopes of a safer, easier world have proven elusive for the manufacturers of robotaxis. Hundreds of accidents with prototypes have attracted investigations.
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Covid and the Green Revolution
In agriculture, public health, and medicine, we should stop envisioning and hyping magic technological bullets that empower governments and enrich investors more than they benefit their purported target populations.
French Exports to Avoid: Wealth Taxes
Wealth taxes tend to yield low revenue, while dragging down economic growth. But they do make for good politics, especially in election years; envy commands votes.
Can’t Fool All Business All the Time
It’s like a shopping list for non-woke investment.
Why Selling Part of Kiwibank Could Do More Harm Than Good
Rather than rush to part-privatise, Kiwibank should focus on strengthening its capital base, improving performance, and establishing a clear track record of growth and innovation.
The Rise and Fall of a Top Lobbying PR Firm
No one should shed any tears when such companies go under. They merely symbolise how the political system is looking rather morally bankrupt.
Looks Like Meat’s Back on the Menu, Boys!
Yet another business finds that virtue signalling doesn’t come cheap.
More Renewables Equals More Expensive Electricity
The solar daytime glut, negative prices, and community hatred of high-voltage lines is spoiling the market for developers. And not a day too soon...
Farmer Confidence Hits Near-Record Low as Pressures Mount
Farmers surveyed identified their biggest concern as debt, interest, and banks.
Inequality is caused by inflation
Marxists have misdiagnosed the cause of economic inequality. It’s not the extraction of surplus value from workers, as suggested by the labor theory of value, that gives capitalists unfair wealth.
An Open Letter to NZ Parliamentarians
There are very deep principles of democracy and legitimacy at stake – the duty of care for its citizens that a government must evidence.
We Should Be Worried About This Biotechnology
We must take a stand to protect our natural food sources and ensure our vision that New Zealand becomes the organic, GE-free market garden for the world. The time to act is now, before it is too late.
Biden and Newsom’s Energy Foolishness
Mandating EVs and electricity generation from wind turbines and solar panels is mandating MORE USAGE of crude oil.
CFMEU Should NOT Exist in the First Place
The CFMEU scandal is just another recent prime example of how unions can become corrupt and self-serving.