Jump onto the weekly hoon on Riverside at 5pm

With co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with guests Robert Patman on China's 'great wall of steel'; Raf Manji on TOP's plans & banks; Nicola Willis on RMA, Banks, GDP; Chloe Swarbrick too

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It’s that time of the week again when

Peter Bale

and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kaka for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on Riverside (we’ve moved from Zoom) for our chat about the week’s news with special guests

Robert Patman

from the University of Otago on China's 'great wall of steel' and the big AUKUS deals; Raf Manji on TOP's plans & banks; Nicola Willis on RMA reform, a bank inquiry, GDP falling; and Chloe Swarbrick on the policy bonfire and Auckland Council’s unnecessary austerity programme.

Here’s the link

• PM Chris Hipkins announcement of the rest of a policy bonfire to save a combined $1.7 billion, but which blew up the Emissions Trading Scheme, upset the Greens and was overshadowed somewhat by Stuart Nash’s resignation;

• the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the collapse in the share price of Credit Suisse has renewed nerves about the Global Financial System, and shows the fast rate hikes of the last year may not be sustainable if they endanger bank stability;

• a new report showed the new RMA could generate new carbon liabilities of up to $16 billion because of consenting delays; and,

• Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s budget cuts came under fire, justifiably, from those arguing the so-called ‘fiscal hole’ and debt crisis is not a hole or a crisis..

See you shortly

Bernard