The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

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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 about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with Arab News Editor in Chief Faisal Abbas and disinformation researcher Sanja...

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 allows GDP growth to average 2.7% over the next four years. Thank you Cheese (Ashley Cheeseman) , Kath , Suzanne Jansson-Bush , Steve Robinson , and many others for tuning into my live...

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 hikes by the end the year. Most economists now expect three hikes in a row on July 8, September 2 and October 28, just in time for the OCR to be 3.0% by the election on November 7. F...

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

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 about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with historian and author Jonathan Lyons, PhD on the conflict with Iran and Tex...

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 above. They met Transport Minister Chris Bishop this week to talk about the review, which is running headlong into a July 1 deadline to start a revised scheme with a lower subsidy (65%...

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 about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes a discussion with former Productivity Commission Chair and now independent economist Ganesh...

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 this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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 with it. 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

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 Minister and voters in general to have a look at what the closest observers in the global oil industry were saying as recently as last night, especially now the latest suggestion of p...

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 a self-reinforcing system, where the ever-older-and-ever-wealthier winners keep rewarding politicians that protect and enhance their gains, especially when it is at the expense of...

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, climate and poverty: * The OECD called on New Zealand to reform its overpriced electricity market and undersized stock market in its annual survey published yesterday, along with...

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 about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes a discussion with special guest Iain Walker , who is an expert in deliberative democracy an...

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 mayoral committees, instead telling councils to present their amalgamation plans to the Government within 90 days or ‘we will do it for you.’ * The ultimatum is the latest in a multi-d...

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 Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes a discussion with special guest Paul Spoonley about his report this week with P...

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-elected, even though experts globally are increasingly concerned the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed for many more months and cause a global recession. * Productivity statistics...

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 Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes discussions with special guests Jonathan Lyons, PhD from Vancouver and Shamubee...

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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 bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes discussions with with special guest Geoffrey Miller, a strategic analyst with a PHD in New Zealand’s relations with the Middle East. This...

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