The Beginning of the War on Cash
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Coming to a City Near You
Where Australia leads New Zealand often follows, so you can expect this latest story to impact us Kiwis in the not too distant future. Residents have been left outraged over a Perth council’s plans to launch a new policy aimed at reducing the amount of unhealthy food being sold
Our Favourite Cheeses Gone on the Summer Bries
Roman poet Virgil warned us to “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”, but Greeks today might well warn everyone else to be wary of the EU bearing gifts. The British can also tell us a thing or two about Brussels’s overbearing arrogance. Australian farmers are justifiably concerned that they’re
Of Course, the Rules Don’t Apply to Us
Facebook got all high and mighty and banned crypto currency advertisments to look after their users, who obviously could not possibly think for themselves. Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting crypto-currency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies were
More Bad News for Landords
If you thought compulsory insulation, compulsory kitchen and bathroom fans and compulsory fixed heaters were enough, you are going to be disappointed. More than a year ago, the government announced that rental losses were going to be ringfenced. This has now passed into law… not that you would know about
Plastic Bag Stasi Dob In Small NZ Business
The Plastic Bag Stasi are out in force and have dobbed in Kiwis who have displayed good old Kiwi ingenuity. When laws are stupid clever people find ways around them using legal loopholes. One small business owner has done just that so that they stay within the law but the
Let’s Play a Google Game
From the very beginning, Google adopted as its corporate motto and code of conduct the phrase “Don’t be evil.” Back then, it was a phrase that embodied what Google’s founders stood for. They have, in more recent times, removed that pledge which is not surprising given how they
Twyford Clearly Never Had a Rubik’s Cube
Last week, Property Council CEO Leonie Freeman was talking on The AM Show about the upcoming ‘reset’ of Kiwibuild. In part of her segment, she opined: quote. “It’s important to understand there’s a lot going on… Kiwibuild is just one part of it. I liken it to a
Small business wins big victory against campus bullies
Financial activism has long been one of the favourite tools for the left to punish Wrongthink. Not that the right is immune, as recent boycott campaigns have shown, but the left have raised the tactic to a dark and dubious art. By the 1980s, vexatious lawfare, particularly by race-activist groups,
The steel industry is in crisis, America excluded of course
Trump got the jump on the worldwide steel industry when he decided, in 2018, to protect American steel interests by imposing 180 tariffs on imported steel. The steel pigeons immediately lifted off with a clatter and touched down in Europe threatening to collapse the European steel industry. Every achievement Trump
The Wellbeing Budget
Well, it has arrived. The world’s first Wellbeing Budget. The groundbreaking budget format that was supposed to have the world sit up and take notice. I am reeling with the uniqueness and diversity of it all. No, I’m not. I’m completely underwhelmed. First, the basics. * $1.9
LIVE wellbeing budget
Budget 2019 will be read from 2pm in Parliament by Finance Minister Grant Robertson. The Wellbeing Budget is about tackling New Zealand’s long term challenges by focusing our attention on the things which matter most, says Labour. This is the current Government’s second budget since assuming power. This
Are tax increases on the way?
The CGT battle is won, and whoever takes the credit for it, there will be no CGT while Jacinda is prime minister. That may not be for long, but we can take it as an assurance that it won’t happen for a while at least. That is all that