Economy
Denying This Doesn’t Change the Data
American households are hurting. With wage growth lagging and inflation compounding, no amount of presidential bluster can mask the math.
This Just Confirms National’s Impoverished Imagination
Nice-to-haves and need-to-haves often amount to the same thing.
Muldoon’s Vision vs Today’s Technocrats
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
Is This a Curate’s Egg?
Could a politician be any more disingenuous? Could a politician be any more duplicitous? National may not even be in government in 2029. They may not even exist as a party the way they are going.
Labour and Left Media Have High Hopes
Frank Sinatra’s last words before he died might just come back to haunt both Labour and their fellow cohorts in the media. He spoke just two words and they were: “I’m losing.”
This Was a Betrayal of Home Owners
The Productivity Commission had the chance in 2003 to strike a blow for freedom and prosperity. Instead, it chose conformity, groupthink, and protection of the state’s egregious intervention in the economy.
Stay Right Where You Are, New Zealanders
Australia is in trouble enough without Wellington wokies flocking here.
Guess Who Is Funding the White Anting of Our Democracy?
This was just another taxpayer-funded junket for Māori Sovereignty activists to slam the ‘racist’ government.
I Told You So
This isn’t all bad news. Just like the internet took away many jobs, it has created far more new jobs and new opportunities.
Some People May Have Children to Gain Income Support
The reality is this: it is cruel and callous to incentivise the birth of otherwise unwanted children. And it is a cruel and callous person who produces a child purely for their own monetary gain.
COP30’s Agenda Is Really About Power
If COP30 in Belém is remembered as the ‘COP of truth,’ it should be because citizens saw the truth: behind the rainforest backdrop and people-friendly branding, this process is concentrating power far from the people it claims to serve.