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Automakers Wake Up to Reality on Electric Vehicles

Automakers Wake Up to Reality on Electric Vehicles

Diana Furchtgott-Roth Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits International papundits.wordpress.com CLAYTON, GEORGIA – Driving through rural Georgia, I have yet to see an electric vehicle

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Would You Change Your Name for $1 Billion?

Would You Change Your Name for $1 Billion?

Kay Smith cfact.org Elon Musk said Sunday that he’d give Wikipedia $1 billion if the organization changed its name to “Dickipedia.” It feels like it’s been a hot minute since Musk stepped out from behind … I have literally no idea where he lives, or what he does

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How the Sky Could Be the Limit for Market Dominance

Renaud Foucart Lancaster University theconversation.com Amazon’s latest plan to use drones to deliver packages in the UK by the end of 2024 is essentially a relaunch. It was ten years ago that the company’s founder Jeff Bezos first announced it would fly individual packages through the sky.

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It’s Never Going to Be Cheap

It’s Never Going to Be Cheap

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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Business Fail of the Day

Business Fail of the Day

Oh dear. MediaWorks’ annual report, audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, is not rosy. There had been concerns about delays in [MediaWorks] providing its financial results to the Companies Office, which it must do as an overseas company. It missed two deadlines and directors faced a fine. The annual report shows that the

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How Walt Disney Conquered the World

Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon

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Will NZ Businesses Grow Under Luxon?

Will NZ Businesses Grow Under Luxon?

Christopher Luxon’s working relationship with the Ardern Government will come back to haunt him when voters become more familiar with the unlucky 13 who made up the Ardern Business Advisory Council. In 2018 Jacinda Ardern appointed Christopher Luxon chair of a new Business Advisory set up to advise the

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A Popular Career Choice for Ex-Labour Ministers

Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz In April this year, when Kiri Allan was still Minister of Justice, she launched a review of lobbying. Justice officials

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Doubling Exports in 10 Years

Christopher Luxon announced an admirable goal of doubling New Zealand’s exports within 10 years. This is something which simply must occur in order to make us a wealthy nation again, but the lack of enthusiasm for the policy shows the ‘New Zealand Disease’ is at the ‘luetic’ stage. Mike

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Qantas Is Likely to Continue to Take Us for Granted

Qantas Is Likely to Continue to Take Us for Granted

Mel Marquis Mel is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of competition law and policy. Prior to joining Monash he taught law for 10 years at universities in Italy. He has lectured and taught law courses in many countries, including Europe and Asia. Neerav Srivastava Neerav’s thesis investigates

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Stop Trying to ‘Contain’ China

Jeremy Powell Jeremy Powell is a blogger on Substack. His X (formerly Twitter) handle is @jpowell145. mises.org It was a laughable moment when President Joe Biden said at a press conference during his visit to Hanoi that the United States wasn’t seeking to contain China. Despite efforts by

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Foreign Policy and Why It Matters

In the leaders’ debate there was a single question on foreign policy – about AUKUS. I am a US citizen and one of the true oddities of being an American abroad is the astonishing similarities to being a ‘made man’ in cosa nostra. Let me explain. In 1986 the US Congress

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What Have They Got to Hide?

What Have They Got to Hide?

Maryanne Demasi Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she produced TV documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has worked as a speechwriter and political advisor

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Stuff and Nonsense

Stuff and Nonsense

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent lengthy article in Wellington’s Post newspaper by Julie Jacobson headed “Council offers rich-lister’s support to secure tenants” left me incredulous. Julie babbled on about the Wellington City Council’s efforts to woo tenants into my company’s central Lambton Quay large retail

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The DOJ’s Coercive Case against Google

The DOJ’s Coercive Case against Google

Kimberlee Josephson Dr Kimberlee Josephson is an associate professor of business at Lebanon Valley College and serves as an adjunct research fellow with the Consumer Choice Center. She teaches courses on global sustainability, international marketing, and workplace diversity; and her research and op-eds have appeared in various outlets. aier.org

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YouTube Acts as Judge and Jury

YouTube Acts as Judge and Jury

Luis Cornelio Luis is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business and Free Speech American. He graduated cum laude with a Political Science and a minor in legal studies from City College of New York. Most recently he served as the English Editor-in-Chief of El American and is an alum of

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