Sitemap - 2022 - The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

Meri Kirihimete and best wishes for the summer

Summer Chorus: Japan wants nuclear power again

CTU wants new Act to cut inflation and lift disposable income

Why are we using a blunt and short-term demand lever in response to two long-run supply shocks?

Govt concedes to farmers on emissions

Summer Chorus: The Grinch has already stolen the Christmas cheer

Summer Chorus: Covid rips through China

The year that was and the year ahead

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The final Dawn Chorus for 2022

Robertson steps up as a ‘mate’ for the RBNZ

Dawn chorus: US inflation lower than forecast

Flying blindly back to migration-led growth

The Australians are coming (for our workers)

The week that was to Dec 9

Financial heat rising to reinstate 25c fuel levy

A glimmer of hope via inclusionary zoning

How to redevelop a golf course for housing properly

Wayne Brown should sell the golf courses instead

The week that was for the week to Dec 2

Slamming on the brakes when the rest are easing off

ANZ sees 32% fall in wage-adjusted house prices

Another looming housing crisis

Dawn Chorus: Covid protests spread in China

The week that was for the week to Nov 27

Inside the Reserve Bank's (even bigger) rate hikes

A 'hoon' video on the MPS with David McLeish & Jarrod Kerr

The RBNZ throws a wet blanket over the economy

Get ready for a big rate hike

A chance to close our democratic deficit

Dawn Chorus: Climate fund agreed

The week that was to Nov 20

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Ask Me Anything about the week to Nov 18

Dawn Chorus: A Ministry of Water Works?

Dawn Chorus: PM to meet Xi

Dawn Chorus: 10 more years of magical thinking

Hotter dividends and land values now, but an even hotter planet and power bills later

Dawn Chorus: Robertson relaxed about power profits

Dawn Chorus: Electricity investment drought

The Kākā's diary for the week to Nov 20, and for the rest of 2022

The week that was to Nov 13

A post-mortem on an inter-generational and institutional tragedy

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Ask Me Anything about the week to Nov 11

RBNZ rebuffs Willis' criticism

Choosing cheaper diesel over faster climate cuts

RBNZ now a hostage to politics

The case for a windfall tax on bank profits

PM wags finger at bank profits

What’s in The Kaka’s diary this week, and in the months to come

Dawn Chorus: National/ACT could govern alone

The week that was to Nov 5

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Why 75 being the new 50 may not be a good thing

Incomes are rising faster than prices & bad debts are tiny

Dawn Chorus: 'Aspirational for the top 10%'

PM drives past Three Waters off ramp

What The Kākā is watching this week, and beyond

Dawn Chorus: A windfall profits tax?

The week that was to Oct 30

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Ask Me Anything about the week to Oct 28

Is the RBNZ's fast tightening fair to Covid's losers?

What The Kākā is watching in Oct/Nov/Dec

Dawn Chorus: Dubai of the South Pacific?

Dusk Chorus: Early wage, price pressures easing

Dawn Chorus: Deflationary signs welcomed

Tuesday’s Dusk Chorus: Uber drivers deemed employees

Tuesday's Dawn Chorus: 'Flush your pipes'

The week that was to Oct 22

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Ask Me Anything about the week to Oct 21

A cautionary tale for Christopher Luxon

It's a profit-price spiral, rather than a wage-price spiral

Dawn Chorus: Overcrowded and under-invested country chooses unlimited migration

Dawn Chorus: Xi sticking with Covid Zero

The week that was to Oct 15

How many people do we want living in Aotearoa by 2100?

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We're still bargaining when we should already be accepting

Boomers lash back to ‘make Niuw Zullund grey again’

The week that was to Oct 7

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Inside the crunch decisions for Auckland Council and its voters

Dawn Chorus: IMF warns of slowing growth

Election 2023: Reversing fiscal drag vs a pulling a big rabbit from a fast-growing hat

Dawn Chorus: Early inflation signs turning down

The lady was for turning after all

Inside TOP's new $7b land-tax-for-income tax switch plan, with extras

Challenging the priority of a AA+ rating over climate change action

The Kākā's diary for October

Dawn Chorus: TOP's tax switch pitch

The week that was to Oct 2

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Dawn Chorus: Baltic explosions and British implosions

Bank of England bails out pension funds and pays for tax cuts for Britain's richest

Dawn Chorus: The bond vigilantes are back to take down Truss' gilt-edged tax cuts for the rich

The week that was for the week to Sept 25

Join us on a hoon to celebrate The Kākā's first birthday

A 'reverse currency war' just broke out

The Fed pledges to keep rates higher for longer

First home buyers returning, but too soon?

National wobbling on Townhouse Nation densification pact

Choosing dirt, tax-free capital gains and low debt over new homes for kids

The week that was to Sept 17

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Friday’s Dawn Chorus: Councils quiet quitting on urban densification

Thursday's Dawn Chorus: EU windfall profit tax

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Housing slump ending in Auckland

Tuesday's Dawn Chorus: Inflation falling

Dusk Chorus: PM declares Covid over

Monday's pick o' the links

Dawn Chorus: A maskless holiday?

The week that was to Sept 10

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Dawn Chorus: Europe's jumbo rate hike

Dawn Chorus: Covid rules expiring

Magical thinking hits the physical and financial buffers

Dawn Chorus: Geo-politics driving inflation and recession in Europe

Monday's pick o' the links

The week that was to Sept 5

What Adrian Orr learned at Jackson Hole

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2010: the moment geo-politics changed forever

The anatomy of two tax failures

Another $186b taken from the future

Tuesday's pick o' the links

Tuesday's Dawn Chorus: Winter is coming (for Europe)

Dusk Chorus: 'Cost of Living' payments hammered

Monday's pick o' the links:

Monday's Dawn Chorus: Powell puts down his 'put'

The week that was to Aug 27

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Ask Me Anything about the week that was to Aug 26

Friday's Chorus

The 20% house price fall is not much of a problem at all

Climate feedback loops rocking global economy

All roads lead to a land tax

Labour loosens migration settings

The week that was to Aug 21

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Ask Me Anything about the week to Aug 19

Our climate lizard brains

RBNZ eyes 20% house price fall

Wednesday's pick o' the links

The missing link in Labour's housing response

Two yellow cards

Tuesday's pick o' the links

Even Nats oppose cutting 39c tax rate

House-building seen falling 35%

Monday's pick o' the links

Why 2030 is more important than 2050

Deeper reading and listening for the weekend of Aug 13/14

The week that was to Aug 13

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House prices troughing out

Inflation pressures easing globally

Christopher Luxon's errors of judgment

Tuesday's pick o' the links

The real reason Three Waters is failing

Monday's Dusk Chorus: Inflation expectations fall

Monday's pick o' the links

Carrots, sticks and missile tests

Wage inflation surges

Rearguard action saves most of CCCFA

Tuesday's pick o' the links

Pelosi to visit Taiwan

Migration lever set for pulling

The hoon around the week to July 30

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US in technical recession already

Betting on a soft landing

Second term for Orr in doubt

Wheeler joins Orr's critics

The case for Covid windfall refunds

The hoon around the week to July 24

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Europe's financial turmoil deepens

Building inflation seen rising and extending

House builders brace for another bust in a repeating boom-bust cycle

Tuesday’s pick of the links

A mini-hoon on the deck about inflation

Who's to blame for 7.3% inflation and what (not) to do about it

Monday's pick of the links

The performance art of climate emergency declarations

Weekend reads and listens for July 16/17

The hoon around the week to July 17

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Ask Me Anything about the week to July 15

The middle isn't really that squeezed

NZ Inc stumbling towards another investment-lite influx of guest workers

RBNZ subsidises banks with $12.7b of cheap loans

Tuesday's pick of the links

The 30/30 mantra sucking our future dry

Monday's pick of the links

Be careful what we wish for

My deeper reading and listening for the weekend of July 9/10

The hoon around the week to July 9

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Ask Me Anything about the week to July 8

Friday's pick of the links

Friday's Chorus: Team Transitory's week of redemption

Thursday's pick of the links

Thursday's Chorus: A '2 Degrees Effect' for groceries? Yeah...nah

Wednesday's pick of the links

Wednesday's Dawn Chorus: Young renters give up on home ownership

Tuesday's pick of the links

Tuesday's Chorus: Banks apply marketing blowtorch to chilled Auckland housing

Monday’s Chorus: US in recession already?

The hoon around the week to July 1

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Friday’s Chorus: This time is different?

Thursday’s Chorus: PM's China warning at NATO summit

Wednesday’s Chorus: Just a housing market with bits tacked on

Tuesday's Chorus: Mould in 115,000 homes making kids sick

My pick of the news links for Tuesday, June 28

Monday’s Chorus: A western Belt and Road

Longer reads and listens for the weekend of June 24-26

My pick of the bunch for Thursday, June 23

The case for Matariki accounts for all

Thursday’s Chorus: IRD eyed 'helicopter payments'

My pick of the bunch on Tuesday, June 21

Wednesday's Chorus: Rebels in GIB probe

Tuesday's Chorus: GIB crisis escalates

My pick of the bunch for Monday, June 20

Monday’s Chorus: War derailing emissions plans

My weekend reading and listening for June 18/19

The hoon around the week to June 19

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Ask Me Anything about the week to June 17

My pick of the bunch for Friday

Friday's Chorus: Global stocks slump again

Thursday's Chorus: Biggest Fed hike since 1994

Wednesday's Chorus: Why petrol is stuck over $3/litre

Tuesday’s Chorus: Global market meltdown

Monday's Chorus: 'End cheap RBNZ loans to banks'

My weekend reading and listening for June 10/11

The hoon about the week that was to June 10

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Friday’s chorus: 'We might print again'

Thursday’s Chorus: OECD wants NZ infrastructure spending deferred

Wednesday's Chorus: National + Act at 50%

Tuesday's Chorus: Sky TV set to buy MediaWorks

My weekend reading and listening for June 4/5

The hoon about the week that was to June 3

The grocery duopoly's secret weapons

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Friday’s Chorus: China lashes back

Thursday's Chorus: Sugar taxes work

The Kaka’s diary for June, 2022

Tuesday's Chorus: Finally, a real carve-up threat

Monday Chorus: Samoa does China deal

The hoon about the week that was to May 28

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World Bank recession warning

Two hawkish swoops to slay the dragon

Dawn Chorus: A quick shift to neutral

A strategic alliance without freer trade

A climate change reckoning

The hoon about the week that was to May 20

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Budget 2023's $50b warchest

Budget 2022: When politics and inflation collide

Building back no better

Dawn Chorus: Tight enough?

Dawn Chorus: Recession warnings

A tame, late and skimpy Emissions Reduction Plan

Dawn Chorus: PM too sick for cabinet

The hoon about the week that was

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Dawn chorus: Double-digit house price deflation

Dawn Chorus: Not-so-cold turkeys

Dawn Chorus for Wed May 11

Dawn Chorus for Tuesday May 10

The weekly hoon with Peter Bale

Dawn Chorus for Monday May 9

A hoon of gallery wonks with Thomas Coughlan

Ask Me Anything about the week that was to May 6

The Chorus for Friday May 6

The Dawn Chorus for Thursday May 5

Dawn Chorus for Wednesday May 4

Why the young need an even higher debt ceiling

Breaking: Robertson sets new debt rules

Dawn Chorus for Monday May 2

The week that was for the week's end

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Dawn Chorus: National win would fire up housing market again

Dawn Chorus: A monstrous moral hazard

Dawn Chorus: Russia turns off taps

David Parker's long, long game towards a fairer tax system

Dawn Chorus: Twitter capitulates

The week that was for the week’s end

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Dawn Chorus: Fuel levy cut extension

The dirty little secrets inside our nation of inflation

Dawn Chorus: Reaching the inflation peak

An update on the state of The Kākā nation

Dawn Chorus: 'MIQ wasn't needed over summer'

Is Grant not being enough of a mate to Adrian?

Dawn Chorus: Global growth fears

Dawn Chorus: How to think about mortgage rates now

Dusk Chorus: An 'orange' double-whammy

Dawn chorus: Luxon incoherent on transport

Dusk chorus: Ready for the hike?

Dawn Chorus: Ag migrant worker tap turned on

Dusk Chorus: NZ boosts military aid to Ukraine

Dawn Chorus: 40% of China GDP locked down

The week that was for the week’s end

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Dawn Chorus: Australia's growing jobs pull

Dusk Chorus: CCCFA tweaks emerge

Dawn Chorus: Global shipping crisis worsening

Dusk Chorus: A phalanx of tributes for Ashley, and one critique

Inside our housing supply catastrophe

Dawn Chorus: Housing bottoming out

Dusk chorus: Cash flooding into Treasury's coffers

Dawn Chorus: The great down-zoning disaster

Dusk Chorus: PM keeps NZ at red

Dawn Chorus: Change to orange?

The week that was for the week's end

The weekly hoon of gallery wonks

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The week that was for the week's end to April 1

Dawn Chorus: What was missing today

A Transmission Gully to $7.8b of tax-free capital gains

Across-the-board cash across the Tasman

Dusk Chorus: $300/week shortfall for beneficiaries

The Kākā's live squawkbox for March 29

Dawn Chorus: Bank of Japan ramps up printing again

Dusk Chorus: PM pushes back at China

The Kākā's live squawkbox for Monday March 28

Dawn Chorus: Biden accidentally escalates

The state of The Kākā nation

The week that was for the week’s end

Apologies, but we can’t do the hoon today

Ask Me Anything about the week that was

Don't worry, the credit tap has been turned back on

'It's time to diversify'

The red light warning of a US recession

Dusk Chorus: Knowing your beneficial owner

Dawn Chorus: First home buyers at the bargaining stage of inter-generational grief

Dusk Chorus: Covid rule change news on Wednesday

Dawn Chorus: Where's our climate emergency plan?

A weekly hoon of gallery wonks

The week that was for the week's end

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False economies in health, water and transport

No Powell Put. Yet.

Why we need to diversify away from China ASAP

Dawn Chorus: The good and bad surprises in the energy crisis moves

Govt to cut fuel levy by 25c/litre

Dawn chorus: The Ukraine shock's potentially perverse climate consequences

A weekly hoon of gallery wonks

The week that was for the week's end

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Govt tweaks CCCFA rules as banks suggested

Housing and food stress intensifies

The real reason Three Waters is bogged down (and it's not the one you probably think)

Supermarket duopoly lives to profit another day

There's a $2b hole in Luxon's tax cut plan

A weekly hoon of Press Gallery wonks

The week that was for the week’s end

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Dawn Chorus: Fastest commodity price rises ever

Russia's toxicity pumps up oil to US$120

Global interest rates fall sharply

Opening up and closing down

China will decide if globalisation ends

The week that was for the week's end

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Dawn Chorus: What the Ukraine invasion means for Aotearoa-NZ

RBNZ's kōtuku sounding more hawkish

Why rate hikes are unlikely to puncture the bubble

What the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine might mean for Aotearoa-NZ

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Dawn Chorus: Protests funded overseas

Dawn chorus: Police concreting protestors in

The weekly hoon of Press Gallery wonks

The week that was for the week's end

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Fletcher’s very profitable inflation

Govt set to honour housing guarantee

Dawn Chorus: $1b for just a 47kt reduction?

Aotearoa-NZ moving to ‘phase II’ of omicron plan on Tuesday night

Dawn Chorus: Migrant quotas linked to building consents?

A hoon of wonks from the Press Gallery

The week that was for the week's end

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Dawn Chorus: Kiwibank ownership reshuffle eyed

Morning chorus: Finally, the Police act

Misinformation threatens our national security

PM restates housing hope without defining success

Dawn chorus: The problems with income insurance

This week's hoon of wonks

The week that was for the week's end

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Dawn Chorus: HUD told to look at rent control

Breaking: Govt opening borders to migrant workers early

Dawn Chorus: Border opening news

Breaking: Unemployment and sickness insurance scheme proposed

Dawn Chorus: House value inflation accelerates

Robertson says voters don't really want house prices to drop

Dawn Chorus: Inside the not-so-crunchy home loan figures

Dawn Chorus: Is Luxon more 'approved' than Ardern?

The week that was for the week’s end

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Dominion Rd 'saved' by tunnel to Mt Roskill

Dawn Chorus: NZ$3/litre beckons

Covid's big winners and losers revealed

PM keeps RATs on a tight leash

Dawn Chorus: Stocks diving

Dawn chorus: 'Red' means cancel it

The week that was for the week’s end

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Dawn Chorus: The unanswered omicron questions

A 6% mortgage rate within months? Really?

Dawn Chorus: House prices fall

Dawn chorus: Slowing China cuts rates

Dawn chorus: CCCFA review launched

Summer reading for Jan 14

Summer reading for Jan 13

Summer reading for Jan 12

Summer reading for Jan 11

Summer reading for Jan 10

Summer reading for Jan 7

Summer reading for Jan 6

Summer reading for Jan 5

Summer reading for Jan 4

Summer reading for Jan 3