Last week I wrote about how the Reserve Bank has got it wrong by reducing interest rates to close to zero, and then pushing them up at a rate of knots when inflation, that they created, started to hit. Some of you disagreed with that opinion, and in particular some
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above conference as always, will attract much media attention. It’s all fairly predictable. Some show-pony rich attendees will call for wealth taxes solely to get publicity as to their goodness, but safe in the knowledge that no one present will agree. Various predictable
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF
Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa
Economists and business writers are sending us dire warnings about the inflationary outlook for the coming year. They are mostly likely correct. After creating the biggest asset bubble in decades by lowering interest rates, ostensibly to stimulate the economy – and making assets particularly cheap – the Reserve Bank is now hiking
They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s (NZIER) latest quarterly survey showing the lowest business confidence in the survey’s history, it’s clear that real change is necessary to make New Zealand a prosperous country that is open for business. NZIER reports
To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, I have never wished a private enterprise to fail, but I have smiled at a great many financial reports. Especially when they concern painfully woke billionaires whose latest “renewable” scheme has gone bust. A fall out between two of the nation’s richest men has led
Ninos P. Malek fee.org Ninos P Malek is an economics professor at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, and a lecturer at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He teaches principles of macroeconomics, principles of microeconomics, economics of social issues and intermediate microeconomics. His previous experience also
Jonathan Turley ronpaulinstitute.org Republished with permission from JonathanTurley.org. Despite my support for Elon Musk’s continuing efforts to reduce censorship and restore free speech protections on Twitter, I have been critical of some of his moves from his use of polls on restoring certain posters to the suspensions
Joseph Vazquez Associate Editor, Business & Free Speech America newsbusters.org Joseph is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. His work has been featured on Drudge Report, Fox News, Fox Business, Breitbart, Life News, The Daily Wire, Bongino Report, the Washington Times, Washington Examiner, CBN News,
There is a marvellous line in the movie Wall Street where Gordon Gekko is referring to fund managers and says, “They are sheep – and sheep get slaughtered”. But in much the same way as the mainstream media follows a specific narrative and ignores alternative opinions, so the financial community portrays
Curtis Houck NewsBusters managing editor newsbusters.org Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s news analysis division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst
David Stockman brownstone.org David Stockman, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is the author of many books on politics, finance, and economics. He is a former congressman from Michigan, and the former Director of the Congressional Office of Management and Budget. He runs the subscription-based analytics site ContraCorner. New material
Elon Musk has suspended several journalists’ accounts for doxxing which is against Twitter’s rules. They are not happy about it. State of play: The notice that appears on the now-suspended accounts reads: “Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.” […] In response to a tweet about the suspensions, Musk
