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How business leaders helped save New Zealand from socialism—Lessons for Washington State

January 9, 2020 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

<Speech delivered to the Executive Business Roundtable of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce on January 9, 2020 at the Overlake Golf and Country Club, Medina, WA.> It’s an honor to be speaking here. The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce and other groups like it are important institutions for advocating on behalf of businesses and advancing policy […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Antonio Martino, Beno Schmidt Junior, Francis Fukuyama, new zealand, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Nigel Lawson, Paul Johnson, Richard Epstein, Richard Lindzen, seattle, Seattle city council, Seattle Public Schools, Thomas Sowell, Tyler Cowen, Veronique de Rugy, Washington, Yegor Gaidar

Socialism’s apologists ignore Venezuela’s human tragedy

August 12, 2018 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Supporters of socialism have taken to suggesting that the human tragedy unfolding in Venezuela has nothing to do with socialism, rather it’s the result of the dictatorships of former President Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro. In their view, dictatorships lead to the deprivation we’re witnessing, not socialism. They’re confusing types of government and […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: dictatorship, economic policy, hugo chavez, new zealand, nicolas maduro, nordic countries, socialism, Sweden, venezuela

New Zealand’s reforms and lessons for Washington

July 27, 2017 By Nicholas Kerr 3 Comments

<This is the text of a speech delivered to the Washington Policy Center monthly breakfast on July 27, 2017> Many of you may be familiar with New Zealand’s reforms from an economic perspective, so I’m going to spend more of my talk focused on two other areas: How policies before and after the reforms impacted […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Bryce Wilkinson, Douglas Myers, new zealand, reforms, Roger Kerr, seattle, Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Washington

US healthcare problems—universal healthcare is not the solution

May 30, 2017 By Nicholas Kerr 4 Comments

Shortly after Bernie Sanders’s recent and weakly argued Twitter pic in support of universal healthcare, I photoshopped it into a similarly weak counter-argument and Tweeted back. However, it’s a serious topic and deserves a more thorough response. It goes without saying that the U.S. healthcare system is far from perfect. But the focus should be […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Canada, health care, new zealand, Obamacare, U.K., universal health care

The other passion of Sir Douglas Myers – public policy

April 10, 2017 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

Sir Douglas Myers was one of a kind and he leaves New Zealand business and public policy markedly better for his having been here. The tributes that have been written in recent days rightly note the beer baron’s business successes. But other than noting that he was involved in the New Zealand Business Roundtable, few, […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Doug Myers, new zealand, New Zealand Business Roundtable, NZBR, Roger Kerr, Sir Douglas Myers

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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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