The Sniff Test
The government’s use of urgency to change pay equity laws doesn’t pass the sniff test but at least now MPs seem to know what a woman is.
Economy
They Must Differentiate or Drop Dead
This is the Liberal Party’s last gasp: a reformist battering ram powered by liberalism’s molten core. Conservatism’s spineless whimpering is a funeral dirge.
Trump Hits Back Against the Movie Industry
The NZ movie industry has been hit with 100% tariffs, a month after Nats announced its billion dollar subsidies would continue.
The Drivers of Prosperity
Why did the Industrial Revolution take off in Britain almost 100 years before it did in France and the rest of Europe and America?
A Beginner’s Guide to Our Self-Sabotage
Just like taxing capital chokes investment, it should be no surprise that taxing the cost of living (via inflation) results in fewer births.
Could a Modern Version of Ruthanasia Work?
The 1990’s finance minister says it’s time for some boldness.
We Need Adults in the Room
NZ will not move towards a new economic dispensation unless it is convinced the politicians offering it are serious, responsible and competent individuals. Men and women who know what men and women are and refuse to divide their fellow citizens along ethnic lines.
Defence of the Day
“New Zealand is not immune from the increasing tensions being felt throughout the world,” Collins said. “Today’s announcement sets us on our path for defence spending to reach 2 percent of GDP by 2032/33.”
The RBNZ Is Told to Cut ANZ’s Requirements
Yet Australia’s authorities have ordered ANZ to increase them.
Willis Wants Budgets to Be ‘Lolly Scrambles’
Her pre-budget speech is out-of-touch Wellington jokey silliness.
Trump’s Declining Approval: Worrisome or Illusory?
This high-risk, high-reward presidency is being severely tested.
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She is asking for the bill to be withdrawn and rewritten or amendments put into existing legislation: the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act 1996.