The week that was to Oct 15
TLDR: This week on the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Friday at 5pm for an hour, myself and co-host Peter Bale, along with economist Rodney Jones and University of Canterbury-based and Ukrainian-born political communications scientist Natalia Chaban discussed the news of the week in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa’s political economy, including:
* the anti-Labour backlash in local elections last weekend that saw older pro-car and anti-densification candidates win most of the mayoralties (except Wellington) … see my analysis earlier in the week here;
* the…
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