Business
Energy Prices Now the Biggest Single Concern
Energy costs are rising so fast in Australia, it’s less expensive to dig up rocks, put them on ships, and send them 6,000 kilometers to China to smelt the steel with our own coal, and then ship the widgets right back to us.
Shea Nut Ban Backfires in Nigeria
The ban will no doubt be a windfall for some. But for millions of Nigerians, it could be devastating.
A Storm Just Hit Healthcare
This moment is devastating for the traditional medical establishment and for the pharmaceutical industry. It validates the growing suspicion that profit often outweighs public good and raises a larger question: what other risks remain hidden.
Banks: The Hidden Cost of Excessive Regulation
When bank capital requirements are excessive, the real victims are New Zealand borrowers. The banks themselves will adapt. But borrowers will face higher costs and constrained credit.
What Zohran Mamdani Doesn’t Understand About Wealth
You don’t fight poverty by punishing wealth.
Rip Curl’s Earnings Have Plunged
The video received massive backlash, prompting Rip Curl Women to pull the ad just days later.
Survey Shows Farmers Reject the Paris Agreement
The survey offered grassroots New Zealand farmers a chance to have their say on 10 questions focused on ruminant methane and the economic impact of the Paris Accord on both farming businesses and the broader economy.
To Really Understand What Socialism Is
Wealth only has long-term value when it is combined with the entrepreneur’s knowledge, skills, time, risk-taking, and co-ordination.
Thoughts on Charlie Kirk
Would you employ someone who danced and celebrated the assassination of someone, even if you didn’t like the person who was assassinated? These people have caused actual harm – to their employers, to public trust and to basic decency. The consequences are on them.
The Peach, the Flood and the Power Behind Wattie’s
What begins with the peach will not end with the peach. If current trends continue, within a few short years much of New Zealand’s food will no longer be grown here at all, but imported, processed and standardised to meet global shareholders’ demands.
