Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets. The farcical rule was subsequently wiped but here’s
An article in a weekend newspaper featuring Grant Robertson talking about his $50 billion dollar bill showed just how little understanding he has of what is needed to get out of the canyon he has put us in. Referring to last week’s article by Audrey Young, it was stated
As Eric D. July observed at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, “folks with guaranteed jobs are telling people that can’t work they have to be imprisoned in their houses for an indefinite amount of time”. Not one of the people mandating lockdowns and at the stroke of
Ardern and Robertson are running a circus. I leave it to you to work out who is the ringmaster and who is the clown. Ardern warned beforehand to prepare for pain. She, of course, didn’t divulge just how much. As it turned out, for obvious reasons. If I’d
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In her pre-budget speech, the Prime Minister said, “There is no playbook for the recovery we are about to embark on. But nor do we need one. When it has come to COVID-19 we have carved a path based on our people, our
I am still reeling from the numbers in the “Rebuilding Together” budget. It reminds me of Hillary Clinton‘s campaign slogan in 2016, and we all know how that ended up. All I can do is hope fervently that this government ends up the same way – on the scrapheap, with
The Xi Plague is perhaps the deepest challenge the world has faced since WWII. It didn’t have to be, of course: as evidence, opposed to dodgy modelling, mounts, the virus is turning out to be a lot less scary than it was made out to be. As it turns
The government’s small business loan scheme has started this week. Administered by the IRD, it allows small businesses to borrow $10,000, plus $1800 for every employee, up to a maximum of $100,000. Eligibility for the loan scheme is much the same as for the wage subsidy; you
While governments on both sides of the Tasman are loudly backslapping themselves for their response to the Wuhan virus, hard economic reality is starting to quietly bite. The Australian federal government has acknowledged the gaping hole its response has opened in public accounts: $320bn, or 16.4 percent of GDP,
Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Remember the Trekka? Winston Peters does. David Parker does. Grant Robertson does. Or at least you’d think so, given their talk over recent weeks about how they’re going to be “picking winners” to get New Zealand back off the economic canvas — Peters to
Audrey Young writing in the weekend newspaper headlined her article – “Ardern’s AAA team has one member – and a vital one.” Grant Robertson is the vital one and her article discusses what he has done and what he has to do. Unfortunately, Audrey misses the point – and a vital one.
