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Kiwibank Bailed Out by Govt

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

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Kiwisaver Was to Protect the Little Guy

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

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When Womb Rental Becomes a Business

When Womb Rental Becomes a Business

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

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A Beer and a Night Out Are Now Well beyond Many Kiwis

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

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Moderna and Pfizer: It’s a Bun Fight

Moderna and Pfizer: It’s a Bun Fight

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

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Why I’m Averse to the Metaverse

Why I’m Averse to the Metaverse

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

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Is CNN Trying to Not Go Broke at Last?

Is CNN Trying to Not Go Broke at Last?

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

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Yelp Flags Crisis Pregnancy Centres for Not Killing Babies

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

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Costco Will Change the Way We Shop

Costco Will Change the Way We Shop

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

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4-Day Week Trial Shows First Successes in UK

4-Day Week Trial Shows First Successes in UK

Kontrast.at scoop.me The social democratic magazine Kontrast.at covers current political events, both in Austria and in the rest of the world. We view society, state and economy from a progressive, emancipatory point of view. Kontrast casts the gaze of social justice on the world. The world’s

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Walt Disney Would Not Approve

Sebastian James mercatornet.com Sebastian James is a Sydney journalist. Although I enjoyed Dr Strange: Into the Multiverse of Madness, I was disconcerted. Some aspects of wokism don’t concern me. However, one of the new Marvel superheroes introduced in this instalment of Dr Strange has two mums. Eternals, released

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Three Ways Out for Policy Makers

Three Ways Out for Policy Makers

Dear Editor I’m an aspiring businessman. I’ve never really taken much notice of policy makers (politicians, councillors, representatives of any form). Several years ago, my startup required capital and I borrowed money to get going along with all manner of sacrifices, stress and heartache. All quite normal of

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Data Theft and Government Power

John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post and The American Conservative. What’s the most valuable commodity in the world? Grain, coffee, precious metals?

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