We have been caught in a ‘wicked perfect storm’ for a few years now. Labour cancelled oil and gas exploration, then hit private landlords hard; resulting in a dwindling supply of rental houses and skyrocketing rents, made private housing less and less affordable… and that was before the pandemic hit.
stats.govt.nz Food prices were 7.6 per cent higher in March 2022 compared with March 2021, Stats NZ said yesterday. This was the largest increase since the year ended July 2011 when prices increased 7.9 per cent, partly influenced by a GST increase from 12.5% to
Dr. Mihai Macovei (macmih_mf@yahoo.com) is an associated researcher at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania. Warning Long read: 1,745 words Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was met with unprecedented economic sanctions by the United States and its allies in order to cripple Russia’s capacity
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on
To their complete and utter surprise, the legacy media have discovered that not many people trust them any more. Why on Earth would that be? It must be disinformation and conspiracy theories, they say. It certainly couldn’t be because they’re a rabble of elitist liars. I mean, if
Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. The virus that locked down the world has returned to China in full force. And I don’t mean the Wuhan coronavirus. Nearly every world government
Remember Phil Twyford promising to build 100,000 houses in 10 years? It seems like a long time ago now. Instead of fixing the housing crisis as they promised, this Labour Government has made the situation worse for thousands of Kiwis. Housing is rapidly becoming a luxury in this country:
One of the biggest of the innumerable Big Lies of the climate lobby is that “renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels”. If this is true, one must ask two simple questions: why are energy costs spiralling in direct correlation with adoption of renewables, everywhere it’s being tried? And why
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. If you’ve been feeling some pain at the pump in recent weeks, you’re not alone. Gas prices are up around
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government’s books show Grant Robertson is profiteering from record inflation as he refuses to give any money back to New Zealand taxpayers. ACT can reveal the Government has taken in a massive $14 billion more in income tax revenue than expected, but Robertson
Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is
Capitalist Information Opinion As I write under the pen name of ‘Capitalist’ (chosen because ‘Sex God’ seemed unlikely to result in anything being published) it is appropriate to discuss profit-making undertakings and issue a word of caution about something which has troubled me for a while. When you invest money
This Labour Government, right from the outset, has shown itself to be pig-ignorant when it comes to private enterprise. Their members are union-friendly (beholden) and business-antagonistic. Nothing illustrates their attitude better than Covid. They effectively left the tourism and hospitality industries to bleed to death. Their complete lack of understanding
It is no surprise that the National Party is proposing to introduce tax cuts, should it win the next election. They usually do. But what is surprising is that many commenters on the left side of the political divide oppose tax cuts. They immediately do a quick calculation of how
In itself, the pandemic did not cause inflation, but the corresponding supply chain problems certainly contributed. Remember the Ever Given, the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal for 6 days, wedged across the waterway like a giant log one year ago? This is generally seen as the start
If there was an industry that we needed not to suffer as a result of the pandemic, that would be the construction industry. After the Kiwibuild debacle, rising house prices and extremely high demand, the government should have tried to protect those that are trying to tackle these issues. A
