Not PC

"[ T ]wo salient facts: At April 1, 2025, a sole parent with two or more children received on average $1,110 weekly; a couple with two ...

" S elling assets the state does not need, and investing the proceeds in new infrastructure, is called asset recycling, as opposed to s...

" T he Bill’s rhetorical appeal rests on the idea that it targets under-16s. Its mechanism does not. "To reliably prevent a 15-yea...

“ T he [Iranian] regime [massacred] up to 40,000 in just two days in January. Since then, an execution spree has killed hundreds, many hung ...

Chloe Swarbrick: 'Yes, I alone will decide how much profit you will make. Or not.' " O ne of the most valuable inheritances fro...

[Hat tip Being Objectivist ]

  "While Trump makes love to Kim Jong Un and betrays U.S. ally South Korea, North Korean ballistic missiles are slamming into Kyiv .  ...

“ W hen government engages in a losing venture, it gets doubled in size. But in a market system, if somebody engages in a losing venture, he...

P hilosopher Stephen Hicks writes on the long reach of postmodern philosophy , its insistence on the social construction of reality, and its...

"[ W ] omen, men, of all backgrounds discover, invent and create in ways that uplift themselves and others, thousands, millions ... app...

" C apitalism says inequality can exist, but your needs don't automatically become claims on somebody else's effort. You produc...

"Defenders of a billionaire tax need to show that government officials would better allocate the relevant resources than billionaire en...

  "[ T ]he substantive issues of the case [are] whether four blog posts Bradbury made on his site, 'The Daily Blog,' about O’Br...

" I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observe...

  " S ometimes both institutions and people pick up a firearm and blow both feet off.  "Cambridge University has done so with its ...

"[ M ] ost people hold, explicitly or implicitly, that without regulation, markets could, and sometimes would, spin off into disastrous...

" T he source of income matters. A lot. "Children in households with the same low income suffer hardship disproportionately if the...

Paul Krugman : " He builds elaborate Keynesian models that treat consumer spending as the engine of prosperity, ignores the capital str...

"What are the odds that the clueless young bro who created the biggest financial fiasco of the year is connected to the clueless young ...

" U niversities do not exist to promote 'marginalised voices.' They do not exist to promulgate social engineering experiments....

“ N ew Zealand MPs are so keen to be seen to be 'doing something' about cyber-bullying that they are about to pass a poor piece of l...

" T hose who claim our tax system is unfair and fosters inequality typically quote Scandinavian countries as operating superior tax sys...

" A dam Smith’s most famous sentence remains one of the clearest statements in all of social science:  "'It is not from the be...

  "[ W ]ho actually carries their share of New Zealand’s tax burden. [Let's see] how unfair and disproportionate New Zealand’s tax...