Articles: 353
28 Aug 2025, 00:41
Money
Sadly, we can't do the weekly Hoon today at 5pm because Lynn & I are travelling to a friend's funeral
27 Aug 2025, 20:14
Picks n' Mixes & Daily Chorus: Willis backs off breaking up grocery duopoly. She hopes Costco will instead use 'fast-track' powers to grow, even though it has Christchurch consent, but has held back.
26 Aug 2025, 23:25
Picks n' Mixes & Daily Chorus: Govt announces new visa allowing migrants to buy residency if they invest $2m in a business, or get on 3-year fast-track to residency with $1m investment
26 Aug 2025, 00:21
PM wants 'moderate, consistent' house price rises; Last week, he told RBNZ's Governor he was too slow to cut the OCR & welcomed the RBNZ's lowering of capital requirements; Bishop wants deflation
25 Aug 2025, 21:33
Picks 'n Mixes: PM Christopher Luxon wants 'moderate, consistent' house price inflation, but says he agrees with Chris Bishop that the Govt wants lower prices & rents in the medium term
24 Aug 2025, 18:35
Ministry of Health report finds massive inequities & calls for bipartisan approach to reducing inequality; Men's health report finds men in Tairāwhiti twice as likely to die early than men in Auckland
21 Aug 2025, 19:26
Picks n' Mixes: Oranga Tamariki budget cut 21% in real terms in last five years; Diplomats warned Govt climate inaction was strategically dangerous; Five helicopters bought for cost of 4,000 homes
21 Aug 2025, 18:00
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat about the week's news in politics, geopolitics, climate & the economy with regulars Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus economist Ganesh Nana
21 Aug 2025, 04:48
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on politics, geopolitics, climate & the economy with regulars Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus independent economist Ganesh Nana
21 Aug 2025, 00:25
RBNZ forced to cut even harder as housing wealth hit & low migration exposes the abscesses in our economy's growth model: it's a housing market-with-big mortgages-and-cheap temporary-workers-tacked-on
20 Aug 2025, 22:08
Picks n' Mixes: RBNZ cuts 25 bps, but two of six MPC members voted for 50 bps cut; Investigation of the day by Aaron Smale into Police cases; Deep-Dive & Must-Read of the day are on the housing crisis
19 Aug 2025, 19:13
Picks n' Mixes & Daily Chorus: Tower lifts premia for climate-affected customers by about $230/year today, but says 90% of customers to get $70/year cut; Maui gas may end next year - BusinessDesk-$
18 Aug 2025, 20:19
Auckland Council to downzone 12,000 sections due to flood risk, but upzone areas around stations & bus routes; Govt to relieve Councils of 'joint and several liability', but replacement not clear
18 Aug 2025, 01:26
In lieu of an alternative from Treasury, here's some free advice for PM Christopher Luxon: stop thinking the Government's finances are like a household's & it's still 1991. Neither is true.
17 Aug 2025, 18:19
The Post-$ eyes building rules rewrite today; Tourism leaders want work visa age lifted to 50 to boost tourism; Aaron Smale launches Lake Ellis series; Neil Finn on the Internet's broken promise
15 Aug 2025, 19:26
Dailly Chorus & Picks 'n Mixes: Auckland in open revolt, putting in doubt Government plan to do 'City Deals' that fund infrastructure without borrowing; Removal of foreign buying ban imminent
14 Aug 2025, 20:42
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat about the week's news in politics, geopolitics, climate & the economy with regulars Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus trade expert Stephanie Honey
14 Aug 2025, 19:15
Home-owners face $200-plus-per-year hike in Natural Hazards Commission Levy; Suncorp profit rises 90% after insurance premium hikes; Rebstock to review ComCom; Govt lets Meta host scams
14 Aug 2025, 04:31
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on politics, geopolitics, climate & the economy with regulars Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus trade expert Stephanie Honey
13 Aug 2025, 19:18
But Winton Capital stops work on 3,400 home development in South Auckland after opposition from Auckland Council, Auckland Transport & NZTA; Column of the Day by Toby Moore; Deep-dive by Sam Sherwood
12 Aug 2025, 22:51
Pressure growing for Govt to open purse strings; Construction heavyweight Rick Herd wants stimulus; Concrete output crashes to 12-year low; Car imports at 11-year low; Last-minute RMA rewrite on water
12 Aug 2025, 21:35
1News/Verian poll finds 60% want more Government stimulus to create jobs; Concrete output hits 12-year low; The Deep-dive of the day is on homelessness; The Scoop of the Day is on Kāinga Ora
11 Aug 2025, 21:59
Luxon's support lowest for a new PM since Bolger in 1990s; Economy sliding into balance sheet recession with real wages & spending in reverse as rate cuts don't work without a debt-fueled housing boom
10 Aug 2025, 21:55
Picks 'n Mixes + Daily Chorus: Major report shows half of heart attack victims not treated soon enough and three times more cardiologists needed; Poll finds Labour ahead of National
08 Aug 2025, 18:12
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with special guests Felicity Roxburgh about Trump's 15% tariff on NZ exports & the future of globalisation, and Patrick Reynolds about road user charges and RONS
07 Aug 2025, 21:57
Picks 'n Mixes + Dawn Chorus: Bridges wants Govt stimulus for Auckland; Willis 'open to suggestions for actionable insight'; Hipkins calls out housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on amid louder CGT talk
07 Aug 2025, 04:53
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with guests, including transport activist Patrick Reynolds and NZIBF exec Felicity Roxburgh
06 Aug 2025, 20:47
Picks 'n Mixes + Dawn Chorus: Jobs figures softer than the headlines looked; Pak 'n Save increases profit margins to highest in the world; Corelogic cuts house price inflation forecast
05 Aug 2025, 19:22
Picks 'n Mixes + Dawn Chorus: A spatial planning ministry cut out of MBIE?; Poll shows Coalition still above Opposition; Susan St John argues 'take $3b off NZ Super costs'; Zuru has $1b nappy sales
04 Aug 2025, 21:24
ANZ warns end of labour hoarding could lift jobless rate by 0.5%; Rate already seen at 5.3% in Q2; NZTA reveals Ōtaki to Levin motorway to cost $87.5m/km, twice the average cost of previous eight RONS
03 Aug 2025, 21:56
Consumer confidence survey finds voters see 5.1% inflation, while business confidence survey sees 2.5% wage growth; PM remains confident 'progress will continue in the months & years ahead'
02 Aug 2025, 19:01
PM plans $20-40 fee on foreign trampers to raise $62m/year to help DoC pay for $300m of deferred capital spending. Again, capital costs the RBNZ can ignore, are turning into CPI inflation it can't
