Leasing companies have gambled that second hand values for EVs would be as strong as for conventional cars. It is a gamble that could cost them billions.
Car Leasing Association Wants Govt Support As EV Second Hand Prices Plummet!
Car Leasing Association Wants Govt Support As EV Second Hand Prices Plummet!
18 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: electric cars
Treaty Principles Bill dropped, but broader reform agenda gains momentum
18 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA
Centrist reports – The Treaty Principles Bill has been dropped, but the government is pursuing incremental reform by reviewing and potentially amending Treaty clauses in 28 existing laws. FACTS Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says the aim is to make Treaty references clearer, more proportionate, and legally consistent Critics warn the reforms will “water down” Māori […]
Treaty Principles Bill dropped, but broader reform agenda gains momentum
“No One is Above the Law”: New York AG Letitia James Accused of Alleged Mortgage Fraud
17 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, Internet
Below is my column in the New York Post on the criminal referral of a mortgage fraud case against New York Attorney General Letitia James. After her scorched-earth campaign against Trump, the irony of the allegations is stunning. If James were to move from prosecutor to perp, her own words may come back to haunt […]
“No One is Above the Law”: New York AG Letitia James Accused of Alleged Mortgage Fraud
Imagine if he did this to a left wing MP?
16 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, regressive left
Pere Huriwai-Seger is a Te Pāti Māori candidate. He saw Casey Costello in a foodcourt and proceeded to berate her. Casey politely said “We’re not going to agree, so just move on”. But this guy then seats herself down at her table so he can continue to harass her. Once someone has asked you to […]
Imagine if he did this to a left wing MP?
Federal Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Deportation of Half a Million Biden “Parolees”
16 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, population economics Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of immigration
The intense struggle between the Trump Administration and federal judges continued this week with another court ordering a halt to a nationwide program. In Massachusetts, District Judge Indira Talwani is preventing President Donald Trump from canceling a Biden program granting parole and the right to work to immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV). […]
Federal Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Deportation of Half a Million Biden “Parolees”
Greens now campaigning against prisons as well as police
15 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Stuff reports: Green MP Tamatha Paul has launched a fundraising campaign for a group wanting to “defund the police” and close the court system. Paul has been attracting attention over recent weeks for her comments about policing and support of groups that call for the abolition of police, jails, and courts. While she and the Green Party […]
Greens now campaigning against prisons as well as police
Bill Maher visits the White House and has dinner with Trump
14 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television, TV shows Tags: 2024 presidential election
Not long ago Bill Maher went to the White House to schmooze and dine with, yes, Donald Trump. Trump signed a list of bad names that he called Maher over the years, showed him the small room off the Oval Office which Clinton and Monica Lewinsky made famous, and even gave Maher a MAGA hat. […]
Bill Maher visits the White House and has dinner with Trump
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14 Apr 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, free trade, tarrifs
TweetBob Graboyes masterfully exposes many of the fallacies that fuel Trump’s destructive trade ‘policy.’ Three slices: In 2016, Donald Trump promised, “We’re gonna win so much that you may get tired of winning.” His advisors must have reached that point, as evidenced by the bizarre, incoherent “Liberation Day” tariff policy they helped craft. Trump supporters have…
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Your Latte and Lesson is Ready: Starbucks Employees Pause Service to Protest Immigration Policies
14 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of immigration
We previously discussed how companies were barring political protests or paraphernalia at the workplace and how such rules are entirely enforceable. That made a recent story interesting when Starbucks workers across the country stopped working for a silent protest over the deportation of unlawful immigrants. Starbucks does not appear to be moving to stop such […]
Your Latte and Lesson is Ready: Starbucks Employees Pause Service to Protest Immigration Policies
WHOOP WHOOP — DEFUND DA POLICE
13 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, regressive left
The Sensible Sentencing Trust announced: ‘Whoop Whoop — Defund Da Police’: Sensible Sentencing Trust Drops Satirical Hip Hop Song Targeting Green Party’s Anti-Police AgendaThe Sensible Sentencing Trust has today released a satirical hip hop song and music video parodying the Green Party’s radical stance on law and order, including calls by its electorate MPs to defund the…
WHOOP WHOOP — DEFUND DA POLICE
Strange alliances on alcohol vote
13 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of prohibition
The House voted on the first reading of the bill by Kieran McAnulty’s bill to allow businesses that are allowed to open on public holidays to have normal alcohol sale conditions apply. It is a very common sense bill and passed 67 to 54. It is a personal vote, but it was interesting where the […]
Strange alliances on alcohol vote
Winston Peters at 80: the populist’s populist clocks up 50 years of political comebacks
13 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
Grant Duncan writes – Winston Peters turned a venerable 80 on April 11, but he showed no sign of retiring as New Zealand’s archetypal populist during his recent state of the nation speech. He especially enjoyed the hecklers, gleefully telling them one by one to get out. As ever, his detractors became extras in the […]
Winston Peters at 80: the populist’s populist clocks up 50 years of political comebacks
NZ workplace safety experiment a breath of fresh air
12 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights
Oliver Hartwich writes – One of the pleasures of my job as Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative is hosting events with Ministers explaining their new policies to our members. Last week, we hosted Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden at our annual retreat. I was impressed by the range of policies […]
NZ workplace safety experiment a breath of fresh air
DON BRASH: NZME can get stuffed – the ad they rejected
12 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, entrepreneurship, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: affirmative action, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Written by Don Brash in his capacity as Hobson’s Pledge trustee This morning, you were meant to open the New Zealand Herald and see a…
DON BRASH: NZME can get stuffed – the ad they rejected
Putting children first
12 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: child welfare
Karen Chhour announced: Children’s Minister Karen Chhour has welcomed the passing of legislation to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act by Parliament. The Bill’s passing will enable Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children and its frontline staff to focus first and foremost on the safety and wellbeing of children when creating care arrangements, says Minister […]
Putting children first
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