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The Hoon
Bernard Hickey's discussions with Peter Bale and guests about the political economy in Aotearoa-NZ and in geo-politics, including issues around housing affordability, climate change inaction and child poverty reduction.
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Episodes
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Oct 14
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Oct 7
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Sept 30
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Sept 16
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the…
The HoonRepeat: The Hoon around the week to Sept 9
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Sept 9
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Sept 2
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Aug 26
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Aug 19
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Aug 12
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to Aug 5
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to July 29
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to July 23
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that I wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week…
The HoonThe Hoon around the week to July 15
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that I wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers this week included: * PM…
The HoonThe Hoon is back: Wagner, NATO+ & housing
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for subscribers included: * The Opposition’s reckless talk about a ‘mortgage bomb’…
The HoonThe Hoon: On the China Tightrope; Cycleways vs drivers
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for subscribers included: * The Labour Government’s announcement it would share…
The HoonThe Hoon: Luxon vs density; Budget 2023’s political fallout; the RBNZ’s dovish hike; and Five Eyes’ ‘Volt Typhoon’ warning
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for subscribers included: * The Labour Government’s announcement it would pay NZ…
The HoonThe Hoon: Budget 2023, the $5 prescription fee, market studies, Luxon’s (un)popularity and two curious foxes
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * All the key details from Budget 2023 on…
The HoonThe Hoon: National ruling out TPM; the end of the Washington consensus; a call for more tax on the wealthiest
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * Migration stats showing…
The HoonThe hoon: Railmageddons; climate politics, tax and drone strikes
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * A screed of bank results…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to April 29
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * An Inland Revenue Department…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to April 22
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy covered on The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * Council staff in Wellington going…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to April 15
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to April 1
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy covered on The Kākā for paying subscribers included: * revelations that the Reserve Bank…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to March 25
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to March 19
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and the political economy covered on…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to March 12
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week’s news in geo-politics and the political economy covered on…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to March 4
TLDR: This week’s news in geo-politics and the political economy covered on The Kākā included: * National released its plan to repeal Three Waters and push the…
The HoonThe hoon for the week that was to Feb 26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week, the clean up after cyclone Gabrielle forced the Government…
The HoonThe week that was to Feb 19
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thekaka.substack.com TLDR: This week, Cyclone Gabrielle wrecked the Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and…
The HoonThe week that was to Feb 4
TLDR: This week in the podcast of our weekly hoon webinar for paying subscribers, Peter Bale and myself talked with Auckland Central MP Chloe Swarbrick and…
The HoonThe week that was to Jan 28
TLDR: Chris Hipkins signalled in his first week as PM he was open to loosening migration settings and would ‘rein in’ unnecessary Government spending to focus…
The HoonThe week that was to Jan 22
TLDR: Jacinda Ardern shocked almost everyone by returning from a summer break this week and resigning as Prime Minister because she said had “nothing left in…
The HoonThe year that was and the year ahead
TLDR: This year the long effects of covid and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine generated global labour and energy supply shocks that fired up already-hot…
The HoonThe week that was to Nov 20
TLDR: This week in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa’s political economy, we learned: * the Government’s RMA replacement will take 10 years and…
The HoonThe week that was to Nov 13
TLDR: This week in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa’s political economy, we learned: * Te Putea Matua (The Reserve Bank) found in its review of…
The HoonThe week that was to Nov 5
TLDR: This week in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa’s political economy, we learned: * PM Jacinda Ardern didn’t take the Three Waters offramp…
The HoonThe week that was to Oct 30
TLDR: This week in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa’s political economy, we learned: * China is retreating further into itself under a now…
The HoonThe week that was to Oct 22
TLDR: This week in geo-politics, the global economy and our local political economy, our inflation was hotter than expected as profit margins rose, Xi Jinping…
The HoonThe 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…
The HoonThe week that was to Oct 7
TLDR: This week in the news in geo-politics, the global economy and Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy: * Te Pūtea Matua (The Reserve Bank) hiked its interest…
The HoonInside the crunch decisions for Auckland Council and its voters
TLDR: I spoke this week in the podcast above to NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson about the election campaign for the Auckland Council that ends this…
The HoonThe week that was to Oct 2
TLDR: This week the financial and geo-political outlooks darkened in Britain and northern Europe after Britain’s plans for unfunded tax cuts were trashed by…
The HoonThe week that was for the week to Sept 25
TLDR: This week The Kākā had its first anniversary as a paid subscription email newsletter and podcast. We marked the occasion at midday for an hour on Friday…
The HoonThe week that was to Sept 17
TLDR: The podcast above is a recording of our Weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers. We do this every Friday for an hour at 5pm and it’s one of our most…
The HoonThe week that was to Sept 10
TLDR: In this week’s ‘hoon’ webinar in podcast form above, Peter Bale and myself invited on ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner and talked about: * Europe’s…
The HoonThe week that was to Sept 5
TLDR: This week on the weekly hoon webinar, we talked about the Government’s GST U-turn, the likely election of Liz Truss as UK PM, Ukraine’s counter-attack in…
The HoonThe week that was to Aug 27
TLDR: The five signals I picked out from the noise this week were: The Fed scared markets a bit US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in his…
The HoonThe week that was to Aug 21
TLDR: The five signals I picked out from the noise this week were: * Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr’s second term is hanging in the balance as he scrambles…
The HoonThe week that was to Aug 13
TLDR: The five signals I picked out from the noise this week were: * China only rattled its sabres in the Taiwan Strait; * There was no inflation in the United…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to July 30
TLDR: This week, National called for an independent review of the Reserve Bank’s unleashing of a ‘tidal wave of cash’ during Covid after a former Governor…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to July 24
TLDR: This week, Aotearoa-NZ’s annual inflation rate rose more than expected to 7.3%, which restarted the debate about who was to blame and what should be done…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to July 17
TLDR: This week, demands to loosen restrictions on bringing in migrant workers grew to a crescendo amid widespread delays, cancellations and employer concerns…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to July 9
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…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to July 1
TLDR: This week PM Jacinda Ardern signed a trade deal with the European Union and gave an historic speech to NATO’s summit in Madrid, which edged Aotearoa-NZ…
The HoonThe hoon around the week to June 19
TLDR: This week the US Federal Reserve hiked its key interest rate by a super-sized 75 basis points to fight inflation running at 8.6%. That unleashed fresh…
The HoonThe hoon about the week that was to June 10
TLDR: This week our Reserve Bank detailed its plans to slowly unwind its $55b of Covid-era money printing, the European Central Bank finally stopped its money…
The HoonThe hoon about the week that was to June 3
TLDR: In the podcast above of this week’s ‘hoon’ webinar for paid subscribers, co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale bring talk with special guests Robert…
The HoonThe hoon about the week that was to May 28
TLDR: This week the Reserve Bank warned of a rise in mortgage rates to 6% and a peak-to-trough fall in house prices of 15%, but said the economy and homeowners…
The HoonThe hoon about the week that was to May 20
TLDR: This week the Government released a tame Emissions Reduction Budget and presented a tighter Budget, while overseas, the United Nations warned 47m more…