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)
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
A chance to close our democratic deficit
Dawn Chorus: Climate fund agreed
Ask Me Anything about the week to Nov 18
Dawn Chorus: A Ministry of Water Works?
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
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
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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?
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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'
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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
How many people do we want living in Aotearoa by 2100?
Ask Me Anything about the week to Oct 14
We're still bargaining when we should already be accepting
Boomers lash back to ‘make Niuw Zullund grey again’
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Ask Me Anything about the week to Oct 7
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
Dawn Chorus: TOP's tax switch pitch
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Ask Me Anything about the week to Sept 30
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
Ask Me Anything about the week to Sept 16
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
Dawn Chorus: A maskless holiday?
Ask Me Anything for the week to Sept 9
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
What Adrian Orr learned at Jackson Hole
Ask Me Anything about the week that was to Sept 2
2010: the moment geo-politics changed forever
The anatomy of two tax failures
Another $186b taken from the future
Tuesday's Dawn Chorus: Winter is coming (for Europe)
Dusk Chorus: 'Cost of Living' payments hammered
Monday's Dawn Chorus: Powell puts down his 'put'
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Ask Me Anything about the week that was to Aug 26
The 20% house price fall is not much of a problem at all
Climate feedback loops rocking global economy
Labour loosens migration settings
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Ask Me Anything about the week to Aug 19
RBNZ eyes 20% house price fall
The missing link in Labour's housing response
Even Nats oppose cutting 39c tax rate
House-building seen falling 35%
Why 2030 is more important than 2050
Deeper reading and listening for the weekend of Aug 13/14
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Ask Me Anything about the week to Aug 12
Inflation pressures easing globally
Christopher Luxon's errors of judgment
The real reason Three Waters is failing
Monday's Dusk Chorus: Inflation expectations fall
Carrots, sticks and missile tests
Rearguard action saves most of CCCFA
Migration lever set for pulling
The hoon around the week to July 30
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US in technical recession already
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
A mini-hoon on the deck about inflation
Who's to blame for 7.3% inflation and what (not) to do about it
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
The 30/30 mantra sucking our future dry
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 Chorus: Team Transitory's week of redemption
Thursday's Chorus: A '2 Degrees Effect' for groceries? Yeah...nah
Wednesday's Dawn Chorus: Young renters give up on home ownership
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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Two hawkish swoops to slay the dragon
Dawn Chorus: A quick shift to neutral
A strategic alliance without freer trade
The hoon about the week that was to May 20
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Budget 2022: When politics and inflation collide
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 Tuesday May 10
The weekly hoon with Peter Bale
A hoon of gallery wonks with Thomas Coughlan
Ask Me Anything about the week that was to 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
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 week that was for the week’s end
Apologies, but we can’t do the hoon today
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Don't worry, the credit tap has been turned back on
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
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
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
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: '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