Data from Retail NZ showing retailers expect prices to rise 7.5 per cent in the next three months should be a wake-up call for the Government, says National’s Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis. “This price-hike warning will send another wave of anxiety through squeezed Kiwi households already struggling to
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 ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
I have something of a love-hate relationship with Elon Musk. On the one hand, his flagship Tesla company only survives courtesy of rent-seeking on a colossal scale. If the raft of government subsidies were removed, the company would vanish under a mountain of debt overnight. On the other hand, his
It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote an article regarding the culture war in the entertainment industry. I would like to follow that up with another way to fight the culture war. That is in the business world. I’m sure that I’m not alone in thinking
Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s Business Division. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk slammed woke corporate policies as “the Devil Incarnate” on Twitter. Is the world’s richest man, worth $298 billion according to Forbes,
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Was political corruption involved in the dishing out of millions of dollars by government ministers to tourism businesses? We can’t know, because the Government didn’t keep sufficient records or have proper processes for the handouts. That’s the obvious question arising from a scathing
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
This Labour Government, right from the outset, has shown itself to be pig-ignorant when it comes to private enterprise. Their members are union-friendly (beholden) and business-antagonistic. Nothing illustrates their attitude better than Covid. They effectively left the tourism and hospitality industries to bleed to death. Their complete lack of understanding
Information Opinion The announcement from the government that employers do not have to rehire unvaccinated workers came as a shock. Employers should tread very carefully in this area, as it appears, to me at least, to fly in the face of employment law as it is applied today. The new
Farmlands are the latest store to deploy discriminatory and pointless policies against their own customers. They’ve chucked someone out of their store and trespassed them for the high crime of not wearing a mask: A woman has been left shocked and hurt after being kicked out of a Farmlands
The Government’s car tax comes into force today, piling on yet another cost for Kiwis facing a cost of living crisis, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Hardworking Kiwis will be hoping that this is just an April Fool’s joke, but sadly they will still have to
It is no surprise that the National Party is proposing to introduce tax cuts, should it win the next election. They usually do. But what is surprising is that many commenters on the left side of the political divide oppose tax cuts. They immediately do a quick calculation of how
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The Government has taken a major step backwards by re-introducing 1890s style compulsory unionism. The Government’s so-called ‘Fair Pay Agreements’ Bill amounts to unionism by stealth and will simply make it tougher for business who are already doing it tough. Labour have dusted
