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.
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.
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.
National side-steps the economic drivers they actually control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
What the political rush to punish supermarkets reveals about modern campaigning.
These are just a few examples demonstrating the impossibility of constructing a rational economic order based on socialist principles.
National doesn’t need complex market interventions for a political resurgence – it needs clear, foundational principles. The party could trigger an immediate surge in the polls by drawing a permanent line under race-based funding.
Change the Commerce Commission’s 6.2 per cent weighted cost of capital and the alleged excess profit claim disappears, taking with it the Green Party rationale for state intervention and their plan for ‘Mamdani Marts’ across New Zealand.
A bit of honesty would be preferable to trying to hoodwink the electorate with unworkable policies. You might fool some of the people some of the time but you won’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Outlawing the signal that keeps the supermarket stocked is not compassion. It might be how you get some votes. It’s also how you empty the fridge.
