Professor Robert MacCulloch: New Zealand's Productivity Puzzle -The Plot Thickens.

The author of the world's best selling textbook on economics, Greg Mankiw, is someone I admire for helping students, me included, understand the subject better. Many textbooks on the subject are confusing - his are not. Mankiw is calling for far greatly humility on behalf of those pretending to be economic experts due to the great limitations of our knowledge, particularly around what kind of government interventions work best.

Ross Meurant: Culture

MAGIC FORMULA

It is generally agreed that without a distinctive national tradition which unites a nation, its people lack cohesion, balance and confidence. This I contend, is at the root of the pillars, of New Zealand today.

Divided by racial animosity predicated on demands of unequal treatment for one minority ethnicity (soon to be swamped by the unstoppable Asian tsunami), the unity upon which preservation New Zealand’s heritage depends, founders in dangerous waters.

Clive Bibby: The Irreverence of the Common Man



The joke below, told in his own inimitable style by the former Aussie PM Bob Hawke is a welcome diversion to the current woke mantra permeating our society that is doing its best to strangle every utterance that reflects the true feelings of the common man.

I have included it with my accompanying piece as much as anything in the hope that it will stimulate a revolt against the tyranny of a government operating without a mandate - silently eliminating our rights as law abiding citizens to share what is left of a way of life built on the Anzac spirit, established and fine tuned by past generations of decent, hard working Kiwis.