I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: these are crazy times we’re living in, readers. It’s not just the nuttiness of Frankenfemmes pretending that men can have babies, or a goodly slice of the political class pretending that gibbering teenage dropouts are scientific experts,
Jon 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,
Laura Meriluoto University of Canterbury Laura Meriluoto’s research interests include industrial organisation and network economics. She is currently doing research on the solutions to spam, existence advertising, email pricing and on-line auction design. You would be hard pressed to find an economist who would argue against the merits
rt.com The latest survey carried out by credit card giant Mastercard has revealed that nearly 40% of those polled are planning to use cryptocurrencies for payments within the next year. According to a survey titled ‘Consumer Appetite for Digital Payments Takes Off’, 67% stated that they are more open
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz The Government’s proposal announced Friday, May 7th to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions,” said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand Initiative. Partridge said The New Zealand
The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
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. Set against
David Seymour ACT Leader Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any identified problem. Today’s proposal is far more radical than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s proposal
The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George
Jon 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,
Plans by the Government to reallocate $926 million of money unspent from the Covid Response and Recovery Fund is irresponsible and burdens future generations with even more debt than is necessary, National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Finance Minister Grant Robertson told a Wellington Chamber of Commerce audience this
The Government should be much further down the road towards reconnecting New Zealand with the Pacific Islands than it currently is, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I’m pleased the Cook Islands travel bubble finally has a start date, but the time it took to figure out quarantine-
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Last Friday’s Face of the Day, Mark Dunajtschik, got me thinking. This is the man building and donating Wellington’s new children’s hospital. Dunajtschik, a property developer of considerable experience, and a philanthropist as well, expressed his surprise that NZTA (Waka Kotahi, which literally translates to ‘One Canoe’
