Bilateral, plurilateral, and multilateral are words that New Zealand's civil service love. There is nothing that can't be improved b...

Cato's Handbook on Affordability provides a set of policy recommendations for reducing unnecessary government-imposed costs.  There'...

The ACT Party has announced a new policy that would : Remove the existing Permanent Resident visa category; Require all Resident Visa holder...

A few bits I've neglected to blog. My chat with Adam Jarvis on datacentres .  A follow-up chat with RCR on the same thing, as well as a ...

New Zealand's electricity companies know how to stick a pipe into the ground in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and generate electricity. They...

I've been following Kalshi for a while.  I remember back in the iPredict days, Matt Burgess figured prediction markets were a billion-do...

I do not see the problem here. I do see a lot of ways of creating a problem though. Andrew Bevin writes for Newsroom: Ministers were warned ...

Excellent news out of the UK. Abrysvo, a vaccine for RSV administered to pregnant women, reduces infant hospitalisation by 80%.  From the BB...

Adam Thierer points to his favourite Ronald Coase quote: my favorite Ronald Coase quote: "I find it difficult to ignore the role of st...

It would have been just one bad part of an overarching very silly policy. Exempting it from the policy regime I suppose makes the policy a b...

Being able to speak online freely, under a pseudonym, is an important backstop for freedom of speech. If government turns repressive, or ban...

Kerry Howley has a superb piece in New York Magazine on the kids in San Francisco building the future. Houses and motels turned into dorms ...

New Zealand will be banning greyhound racing .  The Bill to formally end greyhound racing will be introduced to Parliament later this year. ...

There are a lot of metrics folks can use when evaluating policy. "Will this policy break the internet" is an important one. At lea...

I've had a couple of recent columns explaining the in-principle case for compensation for regulatory takings.  Such compensation is reco...

In a sane world, medicines and vaccines already approved by trustworthy overseas regulators would automatically be able to be used in New Ze...

The post title is obviously stupid, right? Mazda Demios are pretty common in ram-raids but: Ram raids have started coming down off their pea...