Debbie Ngarewa-Packer interviewed by Jack Tame
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer interviewed by Jack Tame
30 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Trump just wants to copy NZ citizenship law
28 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Politico reports: Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumental move the president-elect’s allies say is a key step in their long-term strategy: getting the issue before the Supreme Court. The effect of Trump’s order would be to exclude the children of undocumented […]
Trump just wants to copy NZ citizenship law
By Any Other Name.
28 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
The Natural Choice: As a starter for ten percent of the Party Vote, “saving the planet” is a very respectable objective. Young voters, in particular, raised on the dire (if unheeded) warnings of climate scientists, and the irrefutable evidence of devastating weather events linked to global warming, vote Green. After all, what sort of person…
By Any Other Name.
The Secretary to the Treasury defending govt fiscal policy
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economics of bureaucracy, fiscal policy, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
I wasn’t envisaging writing anything more for a while, but….Welllington’s weather certainly isn’t conducive to either the beach or the garden, and the Herald managed to get an interview with Iain Rennie, the new Secretary to the Treasury (not usually the sort of stuff for 27 December either). I’ve always been rather uneasy about heads […]
The Secretary to the Treasury defending govt fiscal policy
What does society expect from fathers?
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of fertility
We live in a society utterly confused about parenthood and the role of fathers. The last Labour government made fathers increasingly irrelevant. In 2020 a law change repealing section 70a of the Social Security Act meant mothers applying for a sole parent benefit no longer had to name the father of their child for the…
What does society expect from fathers?
Holes in IPCC Science Revealed
26 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Graeme Weber reports from Australia on the history revealing multiple holes in IPCC claimed “settled science.” His paper is IPCC – Miss/Diss information? shared with me by email. Graeme is an earth scientist, retired consulting geologist and advocate for nuclear energy. His text is in italics with my bolds and added images. Several years ago, […]
Holes in IPCC Science Revealed
RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: abortion law reform
Our Doctors and Nurses are leaving babies to die should their attempt to kill them in utero fail. Their only care is to wrap the poor things in a blanket as they struggle and strain to their last pained breath. That happens now in New Zealand hospitals with nurses and doctors present with the ability…
RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim
A terrible decision by Treasury
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Eric Crampton writes: This week, the Treasury barred representatives from the Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union from attending its restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update. Treasury said the briefings provide time to consider materials before public release. The aim is more accurate reporting and greater “transparency and accountability […]
A terrible decision by Treasury
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
If you haven’t already done yours here is a helping hand from Hobsons Pledge so now you will have no excuse not to get to it. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11.59PM ON 7 JANUARY 2025!!!!! You can use the following as a guide – I am going to – but, use your own words and under […]
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Sent in a few minutes ago. Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill I thank you for the opportunity to make a Submission on this very important Treaty Principles Bill which I support very strongly for a number of reasons – not least of those being the undemocratic way the the Labour Government in the […]
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
So will they call the Supreme Court racist names now?
19 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
The Herald reports: The Supreme Court has ruled the majority of the Court of Appeal “erred” in a major decision that ultimately eased the test for Māori to gain customary rights for use of the foreshore and seabed. Its just-issued ruling allows an appeal by the Attorney-General against the Court of Appeal’s decision last October, at a time the […]
So will they call the Supreme Court racist names now?
GARY JUDD KC: SUBMISSION ON TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
18 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Support for the bill 1. I support the bill. My primary reason is the need for robust affirmation of the twin pillars of our constitution: New Zealand’s commitment to the rule of law and to the sovereignty of Parliament (Senior Courts Act 2016, s 3(2)). I wish to be heard in support of my submission.…
GARY JUDD KC: SUBMISSION ON TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s GDP Graph Confirms the Bottom has Fallen Out of the New Zealand Economy
18 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand
High profile US Economist Paul Krugman has written a New York Times article in which he shows in one graph the incredible resilience and performance of the American Economy. The dark blue line below tracks the pre-pandemic long-run trend in Real GDP. Meanwhile the orange line is actual real GDP. Krugman remarks that now, in…
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s GDP Graph Confirms the Bottom has Fallen Out of the New Zealand Economy
Now In A New Wrapping
17 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: recycling
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled – Greenpeace, October 24, 2022 I posted about this matter a couple of years ago, based mainly on 1996 article in, of all places, the NYT, that trashed the whole concept. The writer of that original article, John Tierney, says he got more hate mail for it than any […]
Now In A New Wrapping
Call in the Bailiffs: How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund Turned Itself Into an Unpleasant Predatory Lender and Debt Collection Agency.
16 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: solar power
The just resigned Chair of the NZ Green Investment Fund (NZGIF) and Chancellor of Auckland University, Cecilia Tarrant, previously worked at Morgan Stanley Bank in New York, starting in 1997 and finishing in 2009. She’s a very nice person, a lawyer by training, and Structured Products expert, in particular on Mortgage Backed Securities. The collapse of…
Call in the Bailiffs: How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund Turned Itself Into an Unpleasant Predatory Lender and Debt Collection Agency.
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