Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com There is now a pretty widely shared consensus that inflation is undesirable for a variety of economic and social reasons. And around the world it has been widely
The Government and Grant Robertson would have you believe that everything is going swimmingly in the economy. This is despite them tipping us into recession, borrowing and spending like a drunken sailor, with poorly targeted government spending, like the multi-billion dollar Covid fund, all fuelling rampant inflation. Everything is
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Fresh from the news that Labour wasted $531 million on expiring Rapid Antigen Tests, the interim financial statements for May show a Government in serious fiscal trouble. Previously damning forecasts can’t keep up with Grant Robertson’s fiscal incompetence. Looking at today’s interim
In a recent episode of what is surely the best sitcom of all time, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, degenerate businessman Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) delivers a pretty accurate lesson in the basics of inflation and recession. If only more of our chattering classes had a Frank Reynolds to
Rahul Sen Auckland University of Technology India’s economy has emerged as a bright spot in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently the fifth largest global economy, it is predicted to become the third largest by 2030. It is expected India will contribute 15.4% to global economic
Stuart Smith National MP for Kaikoura http://stuartsmith.national.org.nz/ The MMP electoral system in New Zealand has its flaws, and many people are not familiar with how it works. In reality, only two major parties have a realistic chance of forming a government: National or Labour. Some people
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
Jon Miltimore 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, The Federalist,
Jeffery Marshall Dr Jeffery Marshall is a retired brigadier general with extensive experience in both the military and civil sectors. As an officer, he led the first multi-national team to rebuild the Afghan Security Forces and was the first J7 (Analysis and Assessments) at the US European Command. In
Lipton Matthews Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org and Imaginative Conservative. mises.org The scourge of poverty wounding citizens in the developing world has provoked much discussion in affluent countries. Quite unreasonably, rich countries have been
Jon Miltimore 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. aier.org In 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an
Mike Holly Mike Holly received Master degrees in Business Administration and Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His health care article published on Mises Wire is an updated and condensed version of his MBA thesis. He did his internship at the Minnesota Department of
Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org Occam’s razor is not a one-size-fits-all problem-solving principle, but it’s oftentimes the most helpful philosophical approach to tuning out the noise and focusing on the most important facts to reconstruct what actually happened. And if we engage the Occam’s
Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In addition
Matthew Piepenburg Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001 goldswitzerland.com Below, we look at gold in a broke(n) world of hubris, debt, Realpolitik and a rising East. For well over a year, we’
