Four weeks ago I escaped from prison ship New Zealand through a deserted Auckland airport, where the shops are boarded up and almost all signs of life and of commerce have been erased. Standing alone in the eerie quiet of the departures hall in a midday twilight felt akin to
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Opinion Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. President Joe Biden wasted no time after Wednesday’s inaugural ceremonies before getting to work. He signed 17 executive orders and memorandums—by far the most in history on a president’
If China thought that they would whip Australia into submission with their trade and diplomatic war, it’s starting to look as if they made a big boo-boo. Firstly, in an admirable display of fortitude, the Morrison government has ignored the incessant yapping of China-compromised Labor and the white-anting by
Simon Black sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. “Spend as much as you can and then
This government’s response to Covid may have wrecked many businesses and lives but a luxury development in the well-known wine region Gibbston Valley, not far from Arrowtown and Queenstown, has shown us that not everyone in New Zealand is hurting. The long awaited Gibbston Valley Resort’s first phase
While sleepy Joe Biden was rehashing tired old cliches in his inaugural speech to the nation, Jacinda Ardern was busy doing some rehashing of her own. Having retained her title as the Spin Queen by naming 2021 as the “Year of the Vaccine”, she then moved on to the most
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The financial markets have never been more irrational. All sound traditional valuations are out the window in a classic tulip mania scenario. Driving this is world-wide Central Banks money-printing, currently four times greater and rising, than that which followed the 2008 banking crisis. That exercise
It’s that time of year when the Auckland CBD homeless return from their baches in the Coromandel to live another year of gluttony and excess on the streets of our fair city. The last time I encountered them, one bloke, who is roughly the size of a small car,
Chris Sellars It had to end of course. Anyone who thought the status quo was reasonable or sustainable were delusional. They were living in what has always been referred to as a fool’s paradise. Alas, paradise cannot be realised in this transitory material world. We live imprisoned by space
In a sign that drugs – or threats (both are equally effective I’m informed) – work, and proving the steady decline of standards in NZ media, where the flow of intellect has been reduced to a mere dribble, Damien Grant has succumbed to the sinking lid of stupidity and thrashed out
As one of The BFD’s Christmas posts noted, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is almost single-handedly responsible to establishing many of the features of our traditional Christmas. It also gifted the English language with a new pejorative: Scrooge. Derived from the story’s protagonist, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a “scrooge” has
John Tamny aier.org John Tamny, research fellow of AIER, is editor of RealClearMarkets. His book on current ideological trends is: They Are Both Wrong (AIER, 2019) What better way to begin a review of what is an excellent book than to say that the book’s author always knew.
Duggan Flanakin PA Pundits – International Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundations, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in
