Paula Jardine brownstone.org ON January 23, 2020, the day that the Chinese authorities sent their dramatic message to the world by putting the sprawling mid-China city of Wuhan under lockdown, the Biotech company Moderna signed a $1 million funding agreement with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to
New Zealand First Media The last thing the Queen would expect is for us to have another day off when our economy and businesses are in such a fragile state. The cost of yet another holiday would be over $400 million to the economy. New Zealand had one of the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader In a cost of living crisis, the ACT Party cannot support yet another public holiday. It would amount to the Government making small business pay for pageantry. New Zealanders are feeling the loss of the Queen, she was a true leader who selflessly served the
stats.govt.nz Retail card spending rose $55 million (0.9 per cent) in August 2022 compared with July, when adjusted for seasonal effects, Stats NZ said today. chartDownload The increase largely came from spending on consumables, up $18 million (0.7 per cent). Consumables include items such as groceries
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
Martien Lubberink Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor Martien Lubberink completed his PhD in Economics at Groningen University. He has since worked at Lancaster University. After his sabbatical year at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lubberink joined De Nederlandsche Bank, the central bank of the Netherlands. With the
We all know that this government spends money like a drunken sailor, even printing a lot of it when they don’t have enough to splash around. But, what goes up must come down… and in this, I am referring to government debt rather than government spending. It seems they
familyfirst.org.nz When does surrogacy become a commercial venture? A recent article published in Newsroom says “The [Law Commission’s recent] report recommends amending the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act to allow payments to surrogates for their reasonable costs. It suggests these should include reasonable medical, travel and accommodation
JL Increased spending equates to inflation – this is basic economics taught to school children. Our kids will also learn when our political overlords mismanage mum and dad’s money they too will feel it at the till. Yet this current crop of political miscreants has the gall to blame all
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Karl D Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D Stephan received the BS 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 development
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. For nearly 30 years, Amos Miller has owned and operated Miller’s Organic Farm, an all-natural Amish farm located in Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania.
If the decline and fall of the legacy media had a human face, it would probably be Brian Stelter. Stelter was the woke-left media personified: a smirking, hyper-partisan hack whose bias was so blatant and undeniable that even his colleagues called him the “hall monitor”. He used his show as
Matt Philbin newsbusters.org For the abortion-worshipping left, every live baby is a missed opportunity. For every unterminated pregnancy there’s a woman who can no longer have a big powerful career, carefree autonomy and meaningless casual sex. It’s a feminist nightmare. So it helps to have tech companies
Megan Phillips Auckland University of Technology Dr. Megan Phillips is a Senior Lecturer of Retailing at Auckland University of Technology. She completed her PhD in Marketing at Auckland University of Technology in 2017. Her primary research of interest is in sensory marketing, the study of store atmospherics and shopper health
