The annual inflation rate, revealed last week, has purportedly been 7.3 per cent. This is the highest inflation rate in over 30 years and yet something doesn’t seem quite right. Inflation was 6.9 per cent in March 2022. That was a big increase from December 2021, although
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. Have you noticed the ways in which New Zealand’s mainspring seems gradually to be unwinding with Jacinda Ardern’
Those of you who were readers of Whaleoil may remember that four years ago I was writing a lot of articles about the removal of ‘single use’ plastic bags from supermarkets. They were not actually ‘removed’ from supermarkets, of course; they were just no longer given out for free. Supermarket
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. In a landmark settlement, Twitter has publicly acknowledged that it wrongly sanctioned independent journalist Alex Berenson, and agreed to reinstate his suspended account. The case is politically and
Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s Business Division. His work has been featured in the Daily Wire, RealClearPolicy, RealClearEnergy, the Climate Dispatch and The Bongino Report. Leftist billionaire Bill Gates announced a historic $20 billion endowment
The Reserve Bank has a statutory requirement to keep inflation under control and to keep it within a band of 0-2%. For five quarters in a row, inflation has exceeded the statutory limits, yet Adrian Orr still remains the Reserve bank Governor. Yesterday inflation hit 7.3%, the highest in
Information Opinion The future of mining in NZ is pretty grim under our Green-aligned, unproductive government. At the rate it spends money, anyone of mediocre intelligence would figure out that producing money should be high on the agenda. Not so. Their much touted climate emergency ranks above growing the economy.
Information Opinion I came to New Zealand in the 1980s as an expat. It was a lovely place. Friendly people, low levels of traffic, fabulous beaches, jobs easy to come by. I thought I had come to heaven. I raved about the place to family and friends back home. Now,
Faced with a perfect storm of falling poll numbers, rising and rampant inflation and poor, reactive decisions of their own making, the Labour Government has been forced to roll over fuel excise and road user charge cuts yet again. They’ve painted themselves into a corner on fuel prices, and
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. A new start-up called Percy is based on a simple yet revolutionary idea: virtual cashiers. Essentially, a video calling device is set
Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen teaches economics at Ottawa University where he holds the positions of Assistant Professor and Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his graduate education George Mason University and received his undergraduate education Southeast Missouri State University. His research
The rag-bag of nonentities, pygmies, incompetents and narcissists who constitute the Christchurch City Council voted 13 to 3 for the oft-discussed stadium project to proceed, although why it has a silly name of “tea trolley” or “tea cart” (or something like that) is beyond me. As a simple, unworldly country
With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. A reader drew our attention to this discrimination against the unvaccinated and partially vaxxed and we will highlight any others that our readers send to us. Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New
Sir Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, always used to say that if you don’t have any enemies in politics then “you’re no bloody good“; oh so true – especially in his case when he caused certain people (of the Douglas, Bassett, Moore, Rowling variety) to waste
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The Prime Minister’s recent visit to Washington, during which she seemed to have signed New Zealand up as a strongly pro-US outpost in the South Pacific – and
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
