Trump’s Declining Approval: Worrisome or Illusory?
This high-risk, high-reward presidency is being severely tested.
Economy
They Have Created a Fiscal Crisis
There’s only one way out. Here it is, in joint work with former Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas
Claire Bleakley on the Gene Tech Bill
She is asking for the bill to be withdrawn and rewritten or amendments put into existing legislation: the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act 1996.
Is This America’s ‘Suez Moment’?
This month we witnessed the same pattern. After Liberation Day, the US stock, bond, and currency markets all crashed (and gold surged to $3500 as a result). Substantial foreign pressure mounted.
This May Be as Good as It Gets
NZ and Australia face a complicated puzzle when it comes to supermarket prices.
One News Spends $1 Million to Attack
Who is One News to play God? It should be wound up. It serves no purpose.
From the Desk of a Male, Pale and Stale
What if the tariff strategy fails? (Trump tariff strategy, part three)
The All Talk NZ Treasury Secretary
Throw out his rubbish all-talk ‘Te Ara Mokopuna 2025 Consultation’.
How the Harvard Drama Continues to Escalate
Histrionics and hypocrisy. The craziness continues at the Crimson.
Regards Free Trade, Did NZ Get Conned by the European Union?
Our trade agreement with it cost our government $280 million a year.
Is This True Asylum or Backdoor Immigration
How New Zealand's loopholes are being exploited.
Trump vs the Meteor
Getting our house in order will almost certainly require real, painful sacrifice from taxpayers and beneficiaries of government programs. It is not clear if Trump has the will to do all that is necessary. If he does, history suggests that he will be punished instead of rewarded for this courage.
China, Throw Down your Wall
Give freedom to your people. Doing so will eliminate America’s trade deficit with your nation and end the tariffs.
Britain Has a State Addiction
It isn’t just direct, obvious welfare, but a web of indirect dependency through pointless jobs and services tied to government. And it isn’t just an economic millstone – it’s a cultural rot. The US risks the same fate unless it heeds the warning.
Māori Must Take Control
Children need stability, routine, security, and a mother and a father they can rely on. Welfare has robbed too many of these vital necessities. It isn’t the rest of New Zealand, the government, the public service, the Waitangi Tribunal, charities or academics who can fix this problem.