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Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Tuesday, March 26

30% of doctors leave NZ after graduation

Bernard's Picks ‘n’ Mixes on Monday, March 24

Bernard’s Soliloquy for the week to March 23

Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Saturday, March 22

Why is the Govt so afraid of borrowing?

A special Hoon with Michael Wolff, author of four books on Donald Trump

Hoon: Trumpism dies with Trump says Wolff

Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Friday, March 21

Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

S&P downgrades 18 councils, blaming Govt

Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Thursday, March 20

Climate sceptic ACT MP attacks National

Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Wednesday, March 19

'There are no exemptions. Just eat it.'

Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Tuesday, March 18

Luxon announces start of India trade deal talks

Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on March 17

Bernard’s Soliloquy for the week to March 16

Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix on Saturday, March 15

The problems with PPPs

PPPs are more expensive, slower & riskier than Govt DIY

The Hoon around the week to March 14

Bernard’s pick n’ mix at 6am for Friday, March 14

Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

IMF calls for Capital Gains Tax or land tax

Luxon wants media to celebrate National's homelessness achievements more

Luxon’s economy focus at odds with voters

Owners of compulsorily acquired non-iwi land to be stripped of appeal rights

A soliloquy for the week to March 9

Winston taunts Luxon: 'I made him PM'

The Hoon around the week to March 7

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Will Adrian Orr’s replacement unleash a new mortgage war?

Luxon trusts Seymour & Trump

An administered, unnecessary & counter-productive inflation shock

Why the housing market is just not firing up

A soliloquy for the week to March 2

Dawn chorus for Saturday, March 1

Govt eyes big new infrastructure levies, but no value-capture rates

The Hoon around the week to Feb 28

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Seymour's late, missing, discarded, allergenic, nutritionless, dangerous & skimpy school lunch programme is unravelling

Interview: ‘I didn’t want to smile’

'We can't hold on any longer. We're selling.'

Interview: RBNZ wary of any administered inflation spiral

Govt set to hike insurance costs $400/year

A Sunday soliloquy for the week to February 23

A shattering earthquake in geopolitics

RESEND: The Hoon around the week to Feb 21

Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

A mini-hoon on the OCR cut & the housing market

'Where will your kids raise your grand-kids?'

The ambulances at the bottom of our cliffs are full

‘The funds for infrastructure projects need to be prioritised and released’

Recession & local protests drag National below Labour

Rennie, Roche & Willis want faster GDP growth, smaller Govt, lower debt, more competition & risk-taking public servants

The Hoon around the week to Feb 14

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Concrete production slumps to 2014 levels

Business doubts about National’s growth tactics growing

First polls of 2025 show coalition losing

The Kākā’s weekly roundup on politics and economics to Feb 10

Why NZ's new looser 'golden visa' won't 'turbocharge' GDP

The Kākā’s diary for the week to Feb 16 & beyond

Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for Feb 8

Govt grasping at economic growth straws

Govt to sell billions of dollars worth of state housing land

NZ jobs contracting as Australia's expands

The Kākā’s weekly roundup on politics and economics to Feb 3

How Donald Trump's tariff shock will change our political economy

The Kākā’s diary for the week to Feb 9 & beyond

The chart deck calling bullshit on Luxon’s ‘just drive faster & work longer’ economic growth talk

Govt sets 'shockingly unambitious' new climate target

The Hoon around the week to January 31

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Luxon stumbles into toxic privatisation debate

Govt pivots to faster migration & tourism

Bernard’s Soliloquy for Monday Jan 27

Why the Government's going-for-growth push will fail

Join me for a live video chat Dawn Chorus of 6 things @ 6.30am

The Hoon around the week to January 24

Join us at 5pm for 2025's first Hoon

Luxon to lay out economic plan. Questions please.

Join me for a live video chat Dawn Chorus of six things @ 6.30am

Govt leaving food banks in funding limbo

What Trump’s second inauguration means for us

NZ now frozen, listless, mean & hopeless

A silver lining for cycling?

Will swapping Shane Reti for Simeon Brown make any difference?

Luxon flicks Reti's hospital pass to Brown