Sitemap - 2021 - The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Summer reading and listening for Dec 29
Summer reading and listening for Dec 28
Summer reading and listening for Dec 27
Summer reading and listening for Dec 26
The year that was for the year’s end
Dawn Chorus: Air NZ cancels 120 flights
Omicron delays border reopening by six weeks
Dawn Chorus: Border reopening in doubt
Dawn Chorus: Omicron outlook darkens
Join me for an end of year hoon now (with a link that works)
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
Dawn Chorus: Fed sparks tightening wave
An intergenerational wellbeing crime scene
Dawn Chorus: 'Unaccountable on housing'
PM ties herself in a housing affordability knot
Auckland stuck in 'red' until Dec 30
Dawn Chorus: Auckland wants to go 'orange'
The week that was for the week’s end
Come and join us now for our weekly hoon
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
'BTFD and HODL. There's always a bailout'
Dawn Chorus: Third Pfizer dose needed to beat omicron
When low debt trumps reducing child poverty
'Blame yourselves before you blame Orr'
'Please crash this housing market'
The week that was for the week’s end
Weekly hoon starting now. Come on in.
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
Luxon's perfectly rational investing choices
Will asset prices survive the end of money printing?
Luxon’s National set to walk back ‘Townhouse Nation’ accord
Our counterproductive Covid 'rekovery'
Much of North Island going into ‘red’
Dawn Chorus: Am I orange or red?
The week that was for the week’s end
Come and join us for the weekly hoon now
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
Dawn Chorus: National set to pivot
Dawn Chorus: Orr lacks regrets
RBNZ sees 2.6% OCR by end of 2023
Dawn chorus: Trying to reduce leverage
Banks launch 'mini credit crunch,' but will it be enough to make house prices fall? In short: no.
NZ to enter ‘traffic light’ system on Friday Dec 3
Dawn Chorus: ACT bids for National's NIMBYs
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
Dawn Chorus: $5.4m/day in capital gains
Dawn Chorus: Vaccine pass onboarding mess
Auckland boundaries to open softly from Dec 15
Dawn Chorus: The announcement day
Dawn Chorus: 'Soft' Auckland border tipped from mid-Dec
Booster shots available from Nov 29
On a mission to rental affordability
Dawn chorus: Housing market not slowing at all
The week that was for the week's end
Ask Me Anything about the week that was
Dawn Chorus: Will all of NZ go amber from Nov 29?
Dawn Chorus: Elimination's time of death
Dawn Chorus: Super-spreader events
Dawn Chorus: Air NZ's Dec 5 relaunch
PM sees ‘strong expectation’ Auckland will move into ‘traffic lights’ system after Nov 29
Dawn chorus: 'Disappointing and out of touch'
The week that was for the week’s end
Ask me anything about the week that was
Where John Key is wrong on the housing boom, mortgage debt and public debt
Dawn Chorus: MIQueues around Auckland for Christmas?
Why the RBNZ was more than a ‘bit player’ in the 34% rise in house prices in 18 months
Dawn Chorus: Can Auckland really reopen with 200 cases per day?
Auckland retail can reopen next Tuesday
Dawn Chorus: The performance art of climate change announcements
The week that was for the week's end
Join us for a 'hoon' at 4pm today
Dawn Chorus: Preferred Auckland rail option not carbon neutral til after 2050
Dawn Chorus: Water and power rejigs coming
Govt widens vaccination mandates
Dawn Chorus: 90% NZ-wide not likely until late Dec
The week that was for the end of the long weekend
Come and join me and Peter Bale for a 'hoon' at 4pm
90% vax threshold set for relaxation
Dawn chorus: Prep for the big livestream
Dawn Chorus: National eyes $30b of spending cuts
The 'Townhouse Nation' bipartisanship lasted just 112 minutes
Labour and National agree to change RMA to allow three storey intensification without consent
Auckland to stay at level three for at least two more weeks
14 more Super Saturdays to go? Or none?
The week that was for the week’s end
Join us for The Kākā's weekly 'hoon' at 4pm
Our Covid crisis' awful inflection point
Lunch Chorus: Climate 'plan' ridiculed
Dawn Chorus: Govt biggest winner from housing boom
Dawn Chorus: The PM's frustrating quest for optionality
Weekly Hoon: News Zealand over the horizon with Peter Bale and me
Vaccination mandates for health and education
Dawn Chorus: Circuit breaker lockdown?
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey for a 'hoon' at 3pm
Dawn Chorus: The PM's unexpected vaccine trip to Murupara
Dawn Chorus: Call for North Island lockdown
Why lifting interest rates now was a bad idea
Hipkins leaving Cambridge at level two for now despite discovery of a case
Dawn Chorus: Six week vaccine delay exposed
Vaccination certificates to be used from November
Dawn Chorus: Two more months of lockdowns
Elimination abandoned in new multi-step opening plan
Dawn Chorus: The fingers of blame are turning to the unvaccinated
The week that was for the week’s end
Join Peter Bale and me now for our weekly hoon
Dawn Chorus: Stagflation fear growing
PM indicates hard border around Auckland will stay in place next week
Dawn Chorus: A moment of housing truth
A housing travel plan without a destination or a vehicle
Aucklanders leaving city for new jobs, homes and study being let out
Dawn Chorus: 'Vaccine certificates for summer'
Dawn Chorus: Vaccination passport coming
The week that was for the week's end
Join us for a 'hoon' at 4pm with Peter Bale
Dawn Chorus: RBNZ green lights loan crackdown focused on first home buyers
Aucklanders need to test to leave
Dawn Chorus: Where are the vaccine mandates?
Dawn chorus: From hawkish to heron-ish
Dawn Chorus: Last gasp for elimination
Auckland to drop to level 3 for at least 2 weeks
Last free Dawn Chorus: The long tail has a spike
The week that was for the week's end
Join us at The Kākā for a 'hoon' webinar at 4pm today
Dawn Chorus: China tries forcing us to choose
Dawn Chorus: Australia's shock nuclear sub move
3,000 new MIQ slots to be released from 9am on Monday
Dawn Chorus: House price inflation 31.1%, with more to come as rate hike 'hope' fades
Dawn Chorus: Calls to end elimination grow
Dawn Chorus: Longer lockdowns loom
Hoon: 'News Zealand Over The Horizon' with Peter Bale
Join us at The Kākā for a zoom hoon at 4pm today
Dawn Chorus: PM doubles down on elimination
Dawn Chorus: Time to stop kidding ourselves with the re-opening dream
Delta Two Dawn Chorus: NZers more worried about housing than Covid
A transport budget that is yet to respond to the climate emergency
Dawn Chorus: Extra dose deal due
First Scratch: Rest of NZ goes to beefed-up ‘Delta Level 2’ from Tuesday night
Dawn Chorus: Low interest rates for longer
Hoon: The week that was for the week's end with Thomas Coughlan
Hoon: News Zealand over the horizon with Peter Bale
Join us at The Kākā for a zoom hoon at 3.30pm today
Dawn Chorus: Auckland faces four more weeks at level four
Dawn Chorus: 'Don't come home for Xmas'
Dawn Chorus: $9b in Govt kitty for Covid
Dawn Chorus: Vaccine deal in the works
Dawn Chorus: 'Tighten the lockdown and slow vaccination'
The week that was for the week's end with Max Rashbrooke
News Zealand over the horizon with Peter Bale
Join us at The Kākā for a 'hoon' around 4pm
Dawn Chorus: Auckland faces weeks more in lockdown
NZ Inc calls out gentailer's $3.5b 'super-profit'
Dawn Chorus: Crucial delta moment
Dawn Chorus: RBNZ set on rate hikes
Why elimination will have to end before most voters want it to
Dawn Chorus: MIQ stops taking bookings
Time to eliminate elimination?
Would another unplanned-for population surge wreck our climate change plans?
Join us for our weekly 'News over the horizon' hoon at 4pm today
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn Chorus: RBNZ warns of house price falls...eventually
Dawn Chorus: The disappearing rate hikes
Dawn Chorus: Starting the rate hikes
The week that was for the week's end
Join us for the weekly News Zealand over the Horizon 'hoon' at 3pm
Dawn chorus: House price inflation 30.6%
Dawn Chorus: Fortress NZ staying closed for now
Dawn Chorus: 'The market has failed'
Dawn chorus: 'A code red for humanity'
Dawn chorus: A big week for our climate and Covid plans
How Aotearoa-NZ could live up to its kind 'Team of 5m' self-belief
The week that was for the week's end
Join us for a 'hoon' webinar on zoom at 4.30pm today
Dawn Chorus: Group-thinking our way to premature rate hikes
Dawn Chorus: RBNZ move will hit first home buyers hardest
Dawn Chorus: Here's all the levers the Govt is not pulling to fix our housing catastrophe
In conversation with Dr Sarb Johal on the psychology of living through our Covid-19 era
Dawn Chorus: Human Rights Commission launches inquiry into housing
The week that was for the week's end
Join us for a 'hoon' to end the week at 4.30pm
Dawn Chorus: Don't bet on a breakup
Dawn chorus: Rio Tinto profits as NZ's poor shiver
Dawn Chorus: China's tech crackdown
Dawn Chorus: The scandal of worsening housing-and-power-driven child poverty
Dawn Chorus: 2021 now a travel write-off
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn Chorus: A generation's dreams sacrificed
Dawn chorus: Wellington's big rental squeeze
Dawn chorus: China may not open for years
Dawn chorus: Will our mortgage rates really spike when the rest of the world's are not?
Dawn chorus: Could central banks buy green bonds to deal with climate change?
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn chorus: The problem with incrementalism
Dawn chorus: RBNZ starts tightening
Dawn chorus: Palmerston North house price inflation 61.2% in last year
Dawn chorus: Why rate hikes won't stress the housing market much
Dawn chorus: 70% of home buyers need parents
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn chorus: Should RBNZ adopt average inflation targeting too?
Dawn chorus: Wellington is the world's third hottest housing market
Dawn chorus: Rate hikes by November?
Dawn chorus: A low tax future?
Dawn chorus: Goldilocks markets
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn chorus: Banks get with the programme
Dawn chorus: The anatomy of a 'rekovery'
Dawn chorus: 'Don't expect more houses quickly'
Dawn chorus: Auckland busway cut
Dawn chorus: ANZ's 1.68% mortgage rate
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn chorus: A pyrrhic and only partial victory
Dawn chorus:Housing moves not working. Yet.
Dawn chorus:3 Waters in trouble
Dawn chorus: Bitcoin crackdown
Dawn chorus: Wellington's Unitary Plan-like battle begins
Dawn chorus: Sustainably unaffordable
The week that was for the week's end
Dawn chorus: US inflation hits 29-year high
Dawn chorus: Work visas extended
Dawn chorus: Mortgage demand still strong
Dawn chorus: 64% want lower house prices
News Zealand over the horizon this week
The week that was for the long weekend
A chorus: A massive bond-buying tool and massive bond-issuing needs
Dawn chorus: Housing not so cool
Dawn chorus: Cycling lanes the political fault line of our age
Dawn chorus: The hot buttons in the social insurance debate
The week that was for the week's end
News Zealand over the horizon this week
Dawn chorus: RBNZ's hawkish tilt surprises
Dawn chorus: Dental promise fail
Dawn chorus: When is a levy not a tax?
Dawn chorus: Will the RBNZ flinch?
The week that was for the weekend
Dawn chorus: The day after the anti-MOAB
Budget 2021 special: Righting some wrongs. A bit.
Dawn chorus: Govt's skill shortage
Dawn chorus: The $5,200/week rental in Rotorua
Dawn chorus: The end of the immigration industrial complex
Govt to leave migration tap turned off when the borders reopen
Dawn chorus: How populous should NZ be?
Dawn chorus: Five years of profitable delay
Dawn chorus: Australia relaxed about A$1t of debt
Dawn chorus: 'Striking a balance' in favour of home owners
Dawn chorus: Australia closed 'indefinitely'
The week that was for the weekend
Dawn chorus: The brilliant and perverse absurdity of Labour's austerity Budget of 2021
Dawn chorus: Parliament caves on Uighurs
Dawn chorus: A migration and population review
Morning chorus: Ferraris disguised as Toyotas
Dawn chorus: March's mortgage madness
Morning chorus: Debt lid strikes again
Dawn chorus: RIP RBNZ independence
Dawn chorus: A review of how to pay
Dawn chorus: Biden pledges to halve US emissions by 2030
Dawn chorus: No need for rate hikes
Dawn chorus: All DHBs to be abolished
Dawn chorus: Call for migration review
Dawn chorus: Where's the wellbeing analysis?
Dawn chorus: Australian jobs surge
Dawn chorus: Govt eyes faster densification
Dawn chorus: Will the price hikes stick?
Dawn chorus: DHBs severely stressed
Dawn chorus: Biden throws tech giants under global tax bus
Dawn chorus: Australia's AstraZeneca problem
Dawn chorus: The vanishing MIQ places
Dawn chorus: Global tax rate call
Longer reads and listens for the long weekend
NZ Inc's 'yeah, nah' Government
Dawn chorus: 'The govt was right to panic'
Dawn chorus: Covid report late and critical
Roosting chorus: Gentailers win again
Dawn chorus: Council funding review eyed
Roosting chorus: Slower minimum wage increases
Dawn chorus: Govt not borrowing enough
Dawn chorus: Westpac NZ on the block
Dawn chorus: Not a single new home announced
Here's the detail in the housing package
Dawn chorus: An announcement of a date, for an announcement
Dawn chorus: Big bubble and housing news due in next 48 hours
My longer reads and listens for the weekend
What's news to me this morning
What's news to me this morning
Wage subsidies safely in the bank
What's news to me this morning
Free buses and a just transition vs political reality
What's news to me this morning
Morning chorus: Watch for herd immunity in Q3
Why our ute culture will eat our climate strategy for breakfast
For owners, houses are actually cheap
Dawn chorus: RBNZ expands bond buying
Dawn chorus: Net debt just 31.3% of GDP
Dawn chorus: An invidious and unfair debt lid
Dawn chorus: Housing inflation raging in provinces
Dawn chorus: Reclaiming our information
Dawn chorus: Bond vigilantes vs mass money printers
Dawn chorus: Diversionary direction
Dawn chorus: Monetary conditions tighten
Join a 1pm 'hoon' on housing demand
Dawn chorus: Child poverty progress stalls
Join a 'hoon' on interest rates
Dawn chorus: Landlords borrow big
Dawn chorus: ASB's new build restriction
Dawn chorus: 17% housing inflation?
Three lonely and large elephants
Dawn chorus: Locked down again
Dawn chorus: Where's the population growth and wealth tax permissions?
Dawn chorus: 'A fiscal conservative'
Dawn chorus: Spend it or save it?
Dawn chorus: Gasfitters report cancellations
Dawn chorus: Next OCR move up?
Dawn chorus: NZ housing rocket ship
Where is the inflation bonfire?
Dawn chorus: Political landmines ahead
Dawn chorus: NZ weak on car rules
Dawn chorus: Two more in community
Dawn chorus: Collins wants rezoning
Dawn chorus: Panic testing queues in Northland
Dawn chorus: Husband of Northland case doesn't have it
A response that's neither serious nor credible
ICYMI: No new housing moves til late Feb
ICYMI: No new housing supply announced
ICYMI: Business confidence rebounding
ICYMI: Container 'home' for $390/week in Johnsonville
ICYMI: 19% house price inflation
What a bipartisan approach to the housing emergency could look like and why it's needed
Why work when you can just own houses?
ICYMI: Who blinked at Rio's bluff over Bluff?
ICYMI: Covid Tracer app use fading