Join us now for the weekly hoon

Sign in for the live weekly hoon webinar with Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey, with special guest Robert Patman on Boris' demise, Sri Lanka's demise, Shinzo Abe and the Moonies, plus China and Australia

TLDR: Paid subscribers can join Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale for their live weekly zoom webinar called The Hoon (plural of Kākā) at 5pm (now) for an hour, where they gallivant around the week’s news in geo-politics and the global (and local) political economy. It starts at 5pm and the link to join is below the paywall fold.

This week they host regular guest Otago University’s Professor Robert Patman to chew over:

• British PM Boris Johnson’s demise and what it means for Aotearoa-NZ;

• Sri Lanka’s collapse and what it says about the state of the world;

• Joe Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia;

• signs China might be warming to the Albanese-led Australia

• 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.