In this podcast Peter Bale and I took a 'hoon' about the big events in geo-politics this week, including:
what the US defeat in Afghanistan means for its allies, including us,
whether the Covid elimination strategies are sustainable in Australia and here,
what’s going on with President Xi Jinping’s ‘Common Prosperity’ drive and what it means for China’s big tech billionaires, and,
and the latest on interest rates and the Reserve Bank’s tighter LVR settings here.
Peter is a colleague and friend from my Reuters and FTMarketWatch days in London back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He has managed news rooms and news websites all over the world over the last 30 years, including for Reuters, FTMarketWatch, The Times Online, CNN Europe and MSN Europe.
Usually resident in London and Spain, he got caught in Auckland in the first lockdown and now produces a great weekly email briefing on geo-politics via the Spinoff (sign up here).
From September 21, access to participate in these live webinars and the pieces below that were published Monday to Friday will only be for paying subscribers, while these weekend ‘wrap-ups’ with the podcasts will be for free subscribers. Over 50 people joined the webinar on Friday afternoon.
I’ll be providing a special inaugural offer for all those on the currently free list. The regular cost will be $19/month or $190/year per subscriber. There will be group and corporate offers too. Watch this space and keep opening the The Kākā emails until September 21 to find the coupon to get that offer.
To get a sense of what I do Monday to Friday, I wrote these pieces this week:
Hoon: News Zealand over the horizon with Peter Bale