The Weekly Hoon: Eastern European history & NZ; Election 2026; the RBNZ’s surprise hold & limited fiscal choices
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics.
It included special guest Shamubeel Eaqub talking about fiscal, monetary and KiwiSaver policy. We referred to this substack post he wrote:
And also the Zombie town documentaries he did, referred to in this substack post.
Bernard’s three things of note this week were:
1. Current polling shows the split vote chatter on the right might backfire on the Government.
2. The surprise RBNZ hold of…
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