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Bernard Hickey and friends explore Aotearoa’s political economy together. thekaka.substack.com
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin
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Finance Minister has unveiled a ‘sugar-free’ and ‘tough love’ Budget that achieves a surplus by 2028/29, a year earlier than previously forecast in December, thanks to Treasury forecasting a short energy shock that allow
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand decided this afternoon to hold the Official Cash Rate (OCR), but it was a much closer run thing than everyone expected and the central bank has changed its forecasts to seeing three OCR hi
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin
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I spoke with disability advocates Blake Forbes and Nick Ruane this morning about the ongoing review of the Total Mobility subsidies provided by the Government for taxi services for disabled people. The full video is abov
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin
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Thank you Troy Baisden, Tanya Wintringham, Sue Parsons, Bryce Adams, Sam Cray, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss
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Thank you Tim, Brian Rathbone, Andrew Riddell, Carolyn Rohm, David, and many others for tuning into my live video with Verity Johnson! Join me for my next live video in the app. Here’s the PDF of the presentation I used
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The Government was insistent yesterday a move to ‘Level 4’ fuel rationing was very unlikely and it’s still forecasting economic growth and relatively moderate inflation this year. It may pay for Treasury, the Finance Min
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I have re-recorded and this a re-send of my earlier email, but with a fresh video with full audio attached. New Zealand’s political economy has become such a housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on that it has spiralled into
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Here’s my daily Chorus in video, podcast and email form for both paying and non-paying subscribers, including my selection of the six key news items in Aotearoa’s political economy over the last day or so around housing,
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin
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Here’s the six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day around housing, climate and poverty: * Chris Bishop has dumped his plan to dismantle regional councils and replace them with mayo
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patma
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In the news this morning from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty: * Nicola Willis is confident oil prices will drop soon and save the economic recovery the Government has relied on to get re
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patma
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe
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Thank you Trinity, Max Du Frene, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b
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