David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Wanting ever more money and getting very little, the UN climate agenda is now calling for the global financial system to bend to its will. I am not making
Gee, I’m angry. I can’t tell you how angry I am. The OCR hit a 14-year high today, with banks advising that approximately 60% of fixed mortgages will be coming up for renewal in the next 9 months – many of those over the summer. Thankfully, I don’
Yesterday the Reserve Bank Governor, Adrian Orr, shattered Kiwis’ Christmas dreams delivering a massive 75 basis point jump in the OCR, to 4.25 per cent. That is the highest rate since 2008. The news is bleak: The Reserve Bank has delivered a jumbo-sized interest rate rise of 75
Josh Stylman brownstone.org Josh Stylman, a former tech entrepreneur, co-founder Threes Brewing in Brooklyn, New York. It’s seemed evident for a while that the current fiat monetary system is, at best, unstable. At worst, it’s a Ponzi scheme whose time has expired. If that’s the
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com Political columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with the Washington Times, including eight+ years as managing editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers
Jeff Deist Robert P. Murphy mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets and civil society. He takes particular interest in private legal systems and private money as tools for radically decentralizing political power. Robert
Adrian Orr, the governor of the Reserve Bank, has recently been reappointed for another five-year term by Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson. Robbo has been lavish in his praise of the governor, while plenty of others think he has done an awful job. Rather than lowering the official cash
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at the Epoch Times,
Claudio Grass mises.org Claudio Grass is a Mises ambassador and an independent precious metals advisor based out of Switzerland. His Austrian approach helps his clients find tailor-made solutions to store their physical precious metals under Swiss law. It can be argued that the world has reached the sorry
Back when I was still young and ignorant enough to think that socialism was a pretty good idea, I was astonished by Ronald Reagan’s aphorism that: The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.” He really
November 17th, 2022. The only chance the conservatives have electorally is if the electorate thinks that the measures are fair and the pain is shared. It is 2 budgets in one, 1 for today’s issues and one for election year 2025. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) needed to
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
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. It is all the fashion today
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. As an opposition MP I read government documents, reports and correspondence almost every day. I understand the need for Kiwis to be able to easily digest information that they receive from government departments, but frankly we should not have
Patrick Barron mises.org Patrick Barron is a private consultant to the banking industry. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin for over 25 years
