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. . . promoting capitalist acts between consenting adults.

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

FOMO leaves little time for reflection

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" I must hold it for the greatest calamity of our time, which lets nothing come to maturity, that one moment is consumed by the next, ...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Is it Gustav Holst we have to "thank" for heavy metal

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W ho's to blame for heavy metal? We have a new data point. Robert Fripp -- guitarist extraordinaire and King Crimson leader now for ne...
Friday, April 3, 2026

How the world's climate promises became a new way to keep Africa poor

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  "[ T he world] today says ... 'Net Zero by 2050. ...  "Banks sign net-zero pledges and quietly stop funding energy projects ...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Scratch a conservative, find a statist

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T he newly minted Dr Matthew Hooton slithered into print on Friday last to make the case for state control of international trade. Did I sa...

"Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate."

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" W ars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. (The first is dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citi...

"Globalisation encourages the capitalist engine of growth."

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" G lobalisation encourages the capitalist engine of growth. If people understood how generous that engine has been they would have les...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

It's Shitty Anniversary time

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A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden, surrounded by charts nobody understood, and declared war on mathematics. One year later, ...
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Who's to blame for high power prices? It's the usual suspects, of course.

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"[ I ]it frustrates me that our politicians have become victims of short-termism and tribalism. ... But those with the biggest chequebo...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

AUT's dean steps down to go away and work quietly in a corner [updated]

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L egal battles can be very personal, but arguments about  the law less so. Yet when barrister Gary Judd criticised  the impetus from AUT...
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Rent Control Always Fails—Argentina Shows a Better Way

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Chloe Swarbrick's Green Party are promising a 2 percent annual cap on rent increases. At first glance that might sound compassionate, bu...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

The fuel crisis delivers a chance for genuine political leadership

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" N ew Zealand does not possess the people, the capital, or the institutional settings to maintain our first world status. We are movin...

When the “junk heap” is steadily deteriorating

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W astewater analysis suggests increasing recreational drug use among New Zealanders. (Although there are some problems with the data.) But...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Inequality

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“ I n order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, so far as government is concerned, the resu...
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Taking a stand, living in truth

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"[ L et's look at] the example of the greengrocer, living in an authoritarian state [who] habitually puts a sign 'Workers of th...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Are human rights a gift from government?

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" R oy, a commenter on my ' Lessons from Iran ,' says there is no such thing as human rights: 'Human rights [he says] are g...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

"This is what Israeli intelligence penetration of Iran actually looks like in practice: millions of Iranians who want this regime gone and are willing to risk everything to make it happen."

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" I srael is not just targeting Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders. They are specifically going after the officers who killed prote...
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Super-abundant economic progress

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E VER SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL  REVOLUTION in the nineteenth century and ever-increasing global freedom in this one, human progress has been on ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Was there a strategy?

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UPDATED 8:53am : We said last week the risk, once started, is Trump chickening out . As of this morning our time, Trump chickened out . Trum...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

Treasury's Chief Strategist doesn't understand inflation

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S adly, it seems the NZ Treasury's Chief Strategist Struan Little doesn't understand inflation. Speaking to the NZ Capital Markets ...
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Freedom is a nation's greatest resource

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 " C ountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free." ~ Montesquieu from his 1748 book The Spirit of ...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

'Nature-al’ Entrepreneurship: Being Green Without the State | Timothy Terrell

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I f you want to go green, you should do so without the state’s coercion, says  Timothy Terrell at the Mises Institute conference in Oklahoma...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Utilitarianism is bunk

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"[ U tilitarians], in the fashion of [Jeremy] Bentham, pronounce the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the social end, al...
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