Ask Me Anything about the week to July 15

Bernard Hickey is on site from 3pm to 4pm to answer questions about the week's news, including; moves in interest rates & house prices, pleas for more migrants & a new climate emergency declaration

TLDR: Belatedly, I’m on site from 3pm to 4pm here to answer questions from paid subscribers about the week's main news, including;

• moves (upwards) in official short-term interest rates;

• further moves (downwards) in house prices;

• another inflation shock in the United States;

• pleas for more migrants to ‘solve’ our labour shortages and rising wage inflation, and what’s the best way to do it; and,

• a new climate emergency declaration in the Pacific Island.

Fire away in the comments below.

My apologies for the …er…non-standard… time of today’s weekly AMA. Normally it’s at midday, but I got swamped this week travelling to Auckland and had too many things to write about. You know how it is. You dive into a topic at 5am and the next thing you know it’s 11 am. I’ll get back on track next week. This one has been jam packed.

Jump in and fill your boots.

PS: The Weekly hoon is on at 5pm today as per usual with myself and Peter Bale. Here’s the link for paid subscribers to join in. It is recorded and will go out to all tomorrow.