A day or two ago, I read an attempt by a Minister in the present Labour Government to justify “co-governance”, a word now used to mean governance where Maori New Zealanders share, on a 50/50 basis (sometimes with a veto), the governance of public services or natural resources with those without Maori ancestors. The Minister…
DON BRASH: A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY CO-GOVERNANCE
DON BRASH: A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY CO-GOVERNANCE
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Discrimination?
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: sex discrimination
These wsves are an under-rated cause of business cycles
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, macroeconomics Tags: creative destruction
Fitting up? No! Stitching up!
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Believers in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory often talk about “trends”; increases in atmospheric and ocean temperatures, plus hurricanes and other storms – almost anything in fact, as long as it can be tied to AGW and is getting worse. The graph above doesn’t show anything that we haven’t known for at least twenty […]
Fitting up? No! Stitching up!
Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter
30 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial […]
Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter
National’s tax and spending plan
30 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
National announced its tax and spending plans this morning. You can read the full 29 page document. In the way of all parties and bureaucratic agencies these days, everything gets quoted as a four year figure: $14.7 billion sounds like a lot but it about $3.7 billion a year, which is about 0.8 per cent […]
National’s tax and spending plan
Following California’s Renewable Energy Lead Guarantees Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
30 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
In their sillier moments, the wind and sun cult point to places like California or Germany as prime examples of energy Nirvana. Then come the facts. California and Germany have most certainly led the charge in backing heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar, but they’ve also led the charge on rocketing power prices […]
Following California’s Renewable Energy Lead Guarantees Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
Win in 5 Moves With This Deadly TRAP for White After 1.e4 | Crush the Caro-Kann
30 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
But we haven’t had a three year negative output gap
29 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, macroeconomics, monetary economics
One of the great things about being a prominent organisation that releases complex material to select media under embargo is that you can get uncontested coverage in the first (and probably only) news cycle. Adrian Orr will have been glad of that when it came to the embargoed release yesterday (the public only got to […]
But we haven’t had a three year negative output gap
Resistance Is Futile: Net-Zero CO2 Targets Can Only Be Met With Nuclear Power
29 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The fact that those pushing net-zero emissions targets aren’t talking seriously about nuclear power, says it all. If energy policy is left in the hands of the wind and sun cult – and other weather-obsessed lunatics – it won’t be long before we’re all left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark. Those with financial […]
Resistance Is Futile: Net-Zero CO2 Targets Can Only Be Met With Nuclear Power
Not So Bright Spark: Grand Renewable Energy ‘Battery’ Plan Runs Flat
29 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Hubris drives the so-called wind and solar ‘transition’, which now depends upon the myth of giant batteries compensating for the vagaries of the weather and sunset. These mythical batteries come in all shapes and sizes and with enough added hyperbole have grown to include the entire island state of Tasmania. Touted with the rent-seeking classes’ […]
Not So Bright Spark: Grand Renewable Energy ‘Battery’ Plan Runs Flat
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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