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Why Do They Want CBDCs?

Why Do They Want CBDCs?

Daniel Lacalle mises.org Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat? (2015) and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). There are many excuses often used to explain

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Silicon Valley Bank: Go Woke Go Broke

Silicon Valley Bank: Go Woke Go Broke

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young

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Labor Digs More Money Pits

Labor Digs More Money Pits

As Thomas Sowell has said, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”. Well, not only intellectuals — Labor politicians are just as willfully ignorant. But then, as Anthony Albanese so amply demonstrates, socialist Labor politicians can’t even learn

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What Would You Do With $16,000?

The question is hypothetical and refers to money this Government spent on healthcare over the last three years: $61.6 billion on Covid management and $6 billion on healthcare reform over two years. With a population of around 4.1 million, that’s just over $16,000 for every man,

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Where’s the Incentive to Work?

Working means income, but working also means productivity, two very separate outcomes that New Zealand government policy managed to annihilate during the Covid years. Working from home became necessary and popular around the world, although the working aspect can be a misnomer. What’s not to like? Bloomberg reported that

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When Your Banking System Fails

When Your Banking System Fails

Michael My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled End Times is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book I have written six other books that are available on Amazon.com including 7 Year Apocalypse, Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America, The Beginning

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Can We Avoid WW3?

Can We Avoid WW3?

Egon von Greyerz goldswitzerland.com Egon von Greyerz is the founder and managing partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG. Safely Managing the Knife’s Edge via Physical Precious Metal Ownership In this extended discussion with Brian and Darryl Panes of Good as Gold Australia, Matterhorn Asset Management (MAM) founder, Egon

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Virtue-Signalling Hypocrites

Virtue-Signalling Hypocrites

You may have noticed a trend where companies advertise their woke-credentials by virtue-signalling how diverse their workforce is. This is, of course, nothing new and back in the day it meant ‘We hire both white and black people.’ Then it became about helping women get into the force,

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Green Energy – the Greatest Transfer of Wealth

Green Energy – the Greatest Transfer of Wealth

Steve Goreham cfact.org Steve Goreham is a speaker, author and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. We are in the midst of history’

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Focussing on the Things That Matter

Focussing on the Things That Matter

Any political party that ignores the things that really matter to the voting public is a political party destined for losses. Right now the things that matter to New Zealand voters the most are: inflation/cost of living, housing costs, crime/law-and-order, and healthcare and hospitals. Inflation and

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We Don’t Have Time for Donkeys

We Don’t Have Time for Donkeys

Minister for Auckland and Minister of Transport Michael Wood has declared himself a spirit donkey, whatever that is, in ensuring that the Auckland light rail project, as a government/Minister Wood vanity project, is to proceed, regardless of the fact that the country has some serious infrastructure issues to deal

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Reserve Bank Slams on the Brakes

Reserve Bank Slams on the Brakes

The Reserve Bank yesterday announced a 50 basis points hike in the Official Cash Rate, moving it to 4.75%. Your mortgage, overdraft, equipment leases, and credit card costs just ballooned again. The Reserve Bank is trying to do two main things: stave off a recession, and defeat inflation. You

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It’s Not Your Money, Ralph

It’s Not Your Money, Ralph

Every now and again, an advertising slogan becomes part of the popular lexicon. “Not happy, Jan!” “You’re soaking in it.” “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride” (believe it or not, this was never a saying until a 1950s ad campaign). From a 1980s bank ad, Australians adopted the phrase,

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Time to Swing the Axe on Government Spending

Time to Swing the Axe on Government Spending

As the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle starts to be fully understood, it is going to force the government into making some unpalatable decisions that will affect its re-election chances. But they are decisions that will have to be made, and made sooner rather than later. In an article we

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What the Govt Needs to Do to Help Rebuild Our Economy

What the Govt Needs to Do to Help Rebuild Our Economy

Nick Stewart The floods, having caused devastation to land and life, will also devastate the Hawke’s Bay economy by putting pressure on many businesses that are also having to deal with flooded homes and staff members who have lost everything. Many have still not regained their pre-Covid strength

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Not Too Late to Protest against CBDCs

Connor O’Keeffe Writer and Video Producer mises.org Connor O’Keeffe is a writer and video producer at the Mises Institute. He has a masters in economics and a bachelors in geology. Whether you like it or not, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming. That’s the message

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