The Government’s exhortation to hunt harder for fewer jobs and for more people to work more, and for longer hours, comes as ...

Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new idea. Over the past three decades the IMF, the ...

The week’s big story has been about China’s DeepSeek low-cost AI model. Because DeepSeek requires fewer advanced chips, its ...

Trump launched a tariff war with three of America’s biggest trading partners. Tariffs are a tax paid by importers that almost always get passed on to consumers. Trump is setting them at 25% for Mexico ...

Donald Trump made his fortune by speculating in real estate. These days, Christopher Luxon makes a lot of his money the very ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Early reports indicate that the temporary Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal (due to take effect on Sunday) will allow for the gradual release of groups of Israeli hostages, the release of an unspecified ...

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