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The perils of COVID-zero—how policymakers should manage endemic COVID-19

August 22, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

As the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved and we’ve learned more about the virus, the way we manage it should have evolved as well. From a policymaking perspective, step one is acknowledging that it’s one of many risks we face in life; we need to weigh up all of life’s risks as we decide how to tackle […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: australia, COVID-19, education, new zealand

Coronavirus contemplations II

August 2, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Some further contemplations of mine regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How has the US performed during the pandemic? When I first shared a series of contemplations in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, I noted David Harsanyi’s prediction that the United States would be the best place to ride it out. This was […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, germany, new zealand

Unleashing New Zealand’s Potential and Suppressing Washington State’s—Lessons for Texas

June 17, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr 2 Comments

<This speech was delivered to the Dallas Chapter of the Bastiat Society on June 17, 2021> In 1847, French economist Frédéric Bastiat, this society’s namesake, published a facetious petition to the king now known as “The Right Hand and the Left”. In it he laid bare the fallacy of some of his contemporaries that if […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: australia, bastiat, Doug Myers, jacinda ardern, Jenny Durkan, Kshama Sawant, new zealand, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Ron Trotter, Stephen Jennings, washington state

US healthcare system comes to aid of another Kiwi

May 2, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Headline in the New Zealand Herald: Rare health condition: Government to pay for Melody Klein Ovink’s life-saving US surgery This story strikes home for me because this woman is going through the same thing my Uncle Charles went through 70 years ago. Like this girl, my uncle had a condition New Zealand’s universal healthcare system […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: healthcare, new zealand, united states

When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets

April 29, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 25, 2021> It’s one thing for business leaders to sit out policy debates, but it’s quite another for them to argue for policies that will harm long-term shareholder interests. Yet that’s what we’re witnessing today with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos supporting raising the […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Douglas Myers, jeff bezos, new zealand, Roger Kerr, sir ron trotter

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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