Aaron Gilbert Ayesha Scott Auckland University of Technology There are few stores without an Afterpay logo displayed on the door, or that don’t offer Laybuy at their online checkout. And these schemes are particularly popular with younger consumers. But what price might these buyers be paying for the conveniences
Something happens to the very rich, to their detriment: they lose the presence of people to tell them, “No”. When, as invariably happens, the wealthy and powerful surround themselves with sycophants, there’s no one around them willing to tell them, “That’s a stupid idea. You’re making an
David Bell David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
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After a week’s worth of skirmishes with customer service providers, I am heavily of the opinion that the idiots I spoke to this week should change their department titles from “Customer Services” to “Please Go Away, We Don’t Want to Help”. Customer service is extinct. Naturally, companies are
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 – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz National is not only winning the race towards the general election finish line, but is also miles
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com David Seymour makes no bones about his desire to clean up the grossly excessive bureaucracy. Some of his expressed goals, such as wiping out the farcical Women’s Affairs Department, an agency set up in the 1980s by the then Labour Government as a sop to
Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution
Meryl Nass Dr Meryl Nass, MD is an internal medicine specialist in Ellsworth, ME, and has over 42 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1980. brownstone.org This report is designed to help readers think about some big topics:
Kristen Schiele Kristen Schiele specialises in the areas of digital marketing and social media, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Marketing Educators’ Association. Dr Schiele is co-author of the Mobile Marketing Essentials textbook, and frequently speaks on current and emerging trends in user experience and human-
Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Zoom recently announced they are calling some workers back to the office. The company’s new policy requires close workers to return to the office at least two days per week. This announcement is
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a health practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com Summary In this article, we explore the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Scarcely a day passes when strangers don’t write to me with investment proposals. Given I’ve plainly done OK investing on my own accord, an ounce of common sense would suggest I’m an unlikely candidate to allow a stranger to take over this
Nicholas Schau newsbusters.org Musk, in yet another win for free speech, offered to stand behind employees of various companies who were mistreated for exercising free speech on his social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Musk, in an Aug. 5 post on X, said, “If you were unfairly
Mahesh Muralidhar Venture Capitalist commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room “There is only one word for New Zealand – EPIC!” said Bear Grylls. New Zealand is epic. Our young beautiful country. Our modern-day democracy has punched above its weight and has had the confidence and
Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org Throughout the coronavirus scare, Joseph Mercola has provided much information challenging many of the aspects of the government and big money media’s fearmongering campaign. Given Mercola is a doctor with the ability to reach with his message a significant number of people who value his
