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
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. CFACT is at the big UN climate conference in Egypt where we are engaging in climate diplomacy with a far different perspective than most. CFACT questions fearlessly, informs diligently and communicates relentlessly.
Jon Miltimore fee.org 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,
Michael P. Cameron University of Waikato Michael P. Cameron is an associate professor in economics at the University of Waikato. He is also a research fellow in Te Ngira – Institute for Population Research the National, and was a PGDA Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Lawrence W Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Late last century it became evident worldwide that whenever economists agreed on a future economic forecast, invariably the opposite occurred. To the best of my knowledge, I was the first to point this out in my newspaper columns at the time. In my comic novel
Let us go back to the boring subject of tax… except that it is not boring if you have to pay it, and it is anything but boring if you have to pay too much of it. The Greens are out of their box again, determined to tax anyone that
The latest economic data have been released and it is not good news. There is basically full employment, incomes are soaring, interest rates are about to skyrocket, and inflation is out of control; the New Zealand economy has many difficult years ahead. All of this was preventable, and there is
Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com Peter Imanuelsen is a Swedish journalist, Political commentator, and a supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty. Do you remember the time when I warned that the next step would be a central bank digital currency tied to your digital ID? Well, just like with the
Titus Gebel mises.org Titus Gebel is founder, President, and CEO of Free Private Cities, Inc. He is a German entrepreneur with a PhD in international law, and is the author of Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You. The battle for political supremacy in the West has been
dailytelegraph.co.nz THE LATEST DATA ON FARM SALES HAS SHOWN A FURTHER SLUMP IN VOLUMES AND A DROP IN PRICES, ACCORDING TO THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND’S RURAL MARKET STATISTICS. There were only 171 farm sales in the three months ended September 2022, down 17.8
Brian Tamaki President of Freedoms New Zealand umbrella party Information Opinion Now more than ever, this country needs to be united, not divided. Since the great depression, the state of this nation has never been so critical. Yet much of what politicians are enacting is dividing our nation. While this
Dear Editor The ruinous fabrications of the Ardern government show our political structure to be woefully lacking in counter-means for control and constraint. Debt has skyrocketed beyond rational, serviceable levels – we’re all but maxed-out. Race relations, societal deterioration and crime are off the charts. Health, in total
You can’t say Labor aren’t looking after their base, with their first budget. The workers, you ask? Oh, you sweet, summer child — Labor’s base hasn’t been the workers for decades. The last Labor pollie to ever actually work in a job that wasn’t publicly funded
