Bad news for Kiwis who love a classic pavlova on Christmas, New Zealand is in for an egg shortage. New egg farming rules coming into force next month and high bird-feed costs are driving huge price increases and rationing of eggs. Newshub The new farming rules have forced small
Some years ago, I read an account of what it was like to be a Facebook moderator. This was, of course, back in the day when they spent less time policing WrongThink and actually tried, at least, to contain the sewer of graphic violence and child abuse. It was a
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Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff
How do societies slide into totalitarianism? One step at a time. You don’t go to bed one night in an open, free country and wake up the next morning to find yourself under constant surveillance with jackbooted thugs banging on your door and all your civil liberties stripped away.
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Elon Musk says Twitter’s new speech policy is “freedom of speech,” not “freedom
Just what, exactly, went on with collapsed crypto exchange FTX will no doubt take months and years to unravel. If ever, given the already-uncovered dark web of connections running from the Bahamas to Washington to Kiev. Whether allegations that FTX was some kind of money-laundering front for the
Jeff Deist Robert P. Murphy mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets and civil society. He takes particular interest in private legal systems and private money as tools for radically decentralizing political power. Robert
After my partner and I had spent nearly 24 hours travelling from Asia to return to New Zealand our last leg from Sydney to Auckland was delayed by two hours. We finally arrived at Auckland Airport on QF143 18 November 2022 only to be advised by the captain they had
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at the Epoch Times,
Punit Shah Luca Hargitai University of Bath Lucy Anne Livingston King’s College London Punit Shah is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Bath. Luca Hargitai is a PhD researcher at the University of Bath exploring the concept and measurement of ADHD and its links with mental
In business, it is said, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. However, this is not the case for planned obsolescence, where planned failure is factored in at product design stage. As we are to be subjected to ever more stringent and punitive climate change measures, the increasing
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson brownstone.org Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author
What the hell is going on with FTX? What even is FTX, and why is it all over the news, suddenly? Groucho Marx said, when the market is in the news, it’s time to get out of the market. For many investors in crypto currency exchange FTX, it’s
Raymond Hogler Colorado State University Raymond Hogler teaches labor and employment relations at Colorado State University. After earning his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees at the University of Colorado, He taught at Pennsylvania State University where I was a tenured associate professor in the Labor Studies Department until returning
