The hoon around the week to July 9

The Hoon · Jul 8, 2022 · 1h 1m

TLDR: This week PM Jacinda Ardern pushed back at talk Aotearoa-NZ has joined the ‘west’ too strongly in a new cold war between the United States and China, British PM Boris Johnson (finally) resigned (sort of) and former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was shot and killed.

Closer to home, two-year mortgage rates were cut 30-40 basis points to around 5.45%, commodity prices fell again as global recession fears mount, and consumer confidence here slumped despite record-low unemployment and household income growth actually being more than than the CPI inflation rate.

Also:

* the Infrastructure Commission…