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Wikipedia Redefines ‘Recession,’ Edits Page 116 Times This Week

Wikipedia Redefines ‘Recession,’ Edits Page 116 Times This Week

Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s business division. His work has been featured in the Daily Wire, RealClearPolicy, RealClearEnergy, the Climate Dispatch and the Bongino Report. Wikipedia, a site funded by George Soros, followed the liberal

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Is Stagflation on Its Way?

Is Stagflation on Its Way?

Peter C. Earle aier.org Peter C Earle is an economist and writer who joined AIER in 2018. Prior to that he spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area, as well as running

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

The Labour Government’s Cost of Living payment begins rolling out today. To receive this payment you are required to be residing in New Zealand. But, it seems a number of ex-pats have been notified they’ll receive the handout. And IRD says it won’t be pursuing payments made

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Benefit Incomes – Why It’s Not Worth Working

Benefit Incomes – Why It’s Not Worth Working

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com 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

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Is This a Real-Life Bond Movie?

Is This a Real-Life Bond Movie?

Let’s be honest: Klaus Schwab is one creepy, creepy dude. With his thick Kraut accent, bald dome, and predilection for appearing on jumbotrons in front of adoring assemblies of the world’s elite, he’s been rightly described as “just a Persian cat away from being a Bond villain”

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Just Be Thankful We’re Not in Recession

Just Be Thankful We’re Not in Recession

In his classic adventure novel, Glory Road, Robert Heinlein’s narrator reflects on his service in an unnamed war in South-East Asia: It wasn’t a war – not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat smells

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Elites Blinded by Wind and Sun

Elites Blinded by Wind and Sun

You really have to engage with the Climate Cult to understand just how crazily immune to evidence and reason they really are. They make Flat Earthers and QAnon look like the epitome of rational debate. I’m not joking when I say that these people are truly, utterly demented. It’

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The Closing of Marsden Point Oil Refinery

The Closing of Marsden Point Oil Refinery

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Dear Reader, Many oil refineries around the world are closing. Marsden Point in Northland is just one, but it happens to be New Zealand’s only one, capable of delivering 70% of our country’s fuel needs to a small population of just 5 million. Twenty

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Zippy and Albo: The Joke’s on Australia

Zippy and Albo: The Joke’s on Australia

Election advertising is not exactly noted for its impartial accuracy, but the Coalition’s 2022 slogan is starting to look all-too real. It won’t be easy under Albanese. Just a few months in, and Mr 32% is giving even Joe Biden a run for his money as an economic

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The BFD Comment of the Week

The BFD Comment of the Week

As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Tarquinius  Thank you Tarquinius for taking the time to craft such an interesting

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion This week the public

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Education and the Supply Side of Inflation

Education and the Supply Side of Inflation

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in-person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13.

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Cost of Living Impact – Poll

Family First media@familyfirst.org.nz A new nationwide poll has found significant concern about the cost of living and its effect not only on personal budgets but also the effect on other families in the community. More than half of New Zealanders are very concerned about the cost of

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Is Inflation Really Only 7.3%?

Is Inflation Really Only 7.3%?

The annual inflation rate, revealed last week, has purportedly been 7.3 per cent. This is the highest inflation rate in over 30 years and yet something doesn’t seem quite right. Inflation was 6.9 per cent in March 2022. That was a big increase from December 2021, although

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The Gradual Collapse of Jacinda’s NZ

The Gradual Collapse of Jacinda’s NZ

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. Have you noticed the ways in which New Zealand’s mainspring seems gradually to be unwinding with Jacinda Ardern’

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