Merry Christmas and End of Year Comments on Our Value
Our pressing problem is very much not equity – it is efficiency. Once that’s sorted out, we will be on our way up again.
Business
Asking the Big Banks to Cut Their Own Profits?
Good luck to the finance minister convincing KiwiSaver funds to start investing more in smaller banks.
The TPM Threats to Business
‘They have shown what extremist economic morons they are and how little they value the future of our country.’ – Peters.
Three Kiwis Who Should Be Knighted in the New Year’s Honours
...as symbols of how New Zealand still celebrates meritocratic achievement (or should)
These Procedures Are Funded by Taxpayers
Health NZ say that since 2020 the service has been publicly funded to deliver up to 14 gender-affirming genital surgeries (either feminising or masculinising) per year.
It Is Now Official
Behind all the hot air from the PM and finance minister, National is running a bigger borrow-and-spend government than six years of Ardern and Robertson.
Call In the Bailiffs
How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund turned itself into an unpleasant predatory lender and debt collection agency.
Big Tech Firms Forced to Pay for News
Under this new system Meta would have to ask itself: do we still want to do business in Australia or not?
My Response to the Expert Opinions
The tabling of the Gene Technology Bill at this time speaks volumes about an industry determined to ignore risks and override precautionary voices.
Denmark Passes the World’s First ‘Fart Tax’
Cow farts are a distraction and the joke’s on us. The Danish tax is a significant step toward the state ownership of the means of production. The issue is essentially about control.
Is Bovaer an Innovation or Intrusion?
My talk with ChatGPT matches my first thoughts and worries about Bovaer when I first read the good reports about this and how it will save the planet from methane.
World Class Gibberish
After reading that mind-blowing gibberish, I suggest Becky’s biggest problem is in talking plain English.
The Finance Minister’s Solution to Big Banks?
To make you pay for dirty deals that sell out three million KiwiSaver holders. Labour did the same.
The RBNZ’s November ‘Monetary Policy Statement’ Is a Crock
Can’t the Reserve Bank stop putting itself up and the nation (and world) down with its distorted drivel – so NZ can unite, fix its problems, move on and start booming?
How Javier Milei Explains His Economic Philosophy
Three highlights from Milei’s interview with Lex Fridman.