Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Over the last year or so, house prices in most parts of New Zealand have come back a bit, probably as a result of the relatively rapid rise
Don Ritter Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission
Isabel Crowhurst University of Essex theconversation.com The fallout over the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account has shed light on how financial institutions handle “politically exposed persons”, whom they may view as high-risk clients. Farge, the former Ukip leader, who held a bank account at the NatWest-
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Today’s Labour Party boasts their credentials by raising beneficiary incomes. It’s so important to them, that a requirement to report regularly on benefit incomes was instigated on advice from the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (headed by Cindy Kiro, who was duly rewarded). Here is
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com “The bedrock of any successful
Abhishek Mukherjee, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. Paresha Sinha, Associate Professor University of Waikato Paul David Richard Griffiths, Professor of Finance; (Banking, Fintech, Corporate Governance, Intangible Assets) New Zealand’s central bank is preparing for a future that includes the mainstream use of cryptocurrency. At the end of last year,
At the 2020 election the Greens proposed a wealth tax. I remember being horrified that, if Labour needed the Greens to govern, they might make the introduction of a wealth tax one of their bottom lines. While we had often discussed a capital gains tax, this was the first time
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” cfact.org Wind turbines, once touted by a few wealthy and less populated countries as a clean solution for electricity, are now becoming
There’s no imported idea so bad or demonstrably so that the Albanese government isn’t prepared to fail at it, too. From nonsensically parroting the American “First Nations”, to “Net Zero”, there’s nothing that’s proved so disastrous that Albo and crew aren’t eagerly shouting, “We want
Make no mistake: Dan Andrews absolutely will survive the debacle of the Commonwealth Games cancellation. This is Victoria, after all: the Stockholm Syndrome State. The state where a premier mired in multiple scandals and corruption investigations, who unleashed the world’s longest lockdowns and the worst Covid figures in the
Kirk Hope CEO of BusinessNZ commonroomnz.com This article was first published on The Common Room Kiwis enjoy being free to earn some extra cash to supplement their income with app-based enterprises, including ridesharing, food delivery or short-term rentals. We also love to make use of the latest
The majority of New Zealanders don’t fit in either of the above demographics; the only political influence they have is on election day. This week saw discussion on Labour’s persistence with taxing ‘rich pricks’. Hipkins can’t extract any more tax from middle income earners because Labour desperately
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as
Was there a single pandemic policy that wasn’t an unmitigated disaster? Outside of the odd, sane, jurisdiction like Sweden, North Dakota, or Florida, that is? Lockdowns were a diabolical failure. Forced Covid vaccinations, ditto. Mass masking and school closures were frankly evil. The Covid surveillance/snitch state just as
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.
