Bernard Hickey

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The Hoon around the week to April 18

6 days ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

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Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

1 week ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

Kia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat with myself, and regular guests climate correspondent and on climate and geopolitics, plus special guest Sarah Dalton from ASMS. CheersBernardKeep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Kākā by Bernard Hickey to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Open mike 13/04/2025

1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Marc Ablong

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Why Write (and Read)?

1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Marc Ablong |David Farrier

Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam penned a compelling piece about writing politically. It could be an obvious segue into political blogging, but her piece is so much more. Staying with the political theme, writings like Sidnam’s expose the arrogant dumbassery of the Coalition to defund humanities and social sciences and point to a plausible reason: fear. The Coalition doesn’t like evidence, because it cannot handle it. The Coalition doesn’t like criticism, because it cannot counter it.
Bernard's Saturday Soliloquy for the week to April 12

1 week ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

Six long stories short from our political economy in the week to Saturday, April 12:Donald Trump exploded a neutron bomb under 80 years of globalisation, but Nicola Willis said the Government would cut operational and capital spending even more to achieve a Budget surplus by 2027/28. That even tighter fiscal policy conflicts with the Reserve Bank’s easing of monetary policy, which it continued this week.
Bernard's Dawn Chorus & Pick 'n' Mix Six for Friday, April 11

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

Long stories shortest:The White House confirms Donald Trump’s total tariffs now on China are 145%, not 125%. US stocks slump again. Gold hits a record high. PM Christopher Luxon joins a push for a new rules-based trading system based around CPTPP and EU, rather than US-led WTO. Winston Peters turns 80 today. (There is more detail, analysis and links to documents below the paywall fold and in the podcast above for paying subscribers.
The Hoon around the week to April 11

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

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Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

Kia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat with myself, and regular guests climate correspondent and on climate and geopolitics, plus special guest Boyd Swinburn. CheersBernardKeep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Kākā by Bernard Hickey to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Bernard's Dawn Chorus & Pick 'n' Mix Six

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

(A note to subscribers:I’m going to keep these daily curated news updates shorter in future to ensure an earlier and more regular delivery.Expect this format and delivery around 7 am Monday to Friday from now on. My apologies for not delivering yesterday.
'We can afford more drones, but not more homes'

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

Long stories short in Aotearoa’s political economy this morning:PM Christopher Luxon says the Government can afford an extra $12 billion to ‘enhance the lethality’ of the NZDF’s planes, drones and artillery. Previously, he has said there ‘isn’t enough money’ for more housing, social welfare and infrastructure spending because debt reduction is more important. Luxon says the United States was happy New Zealand plans to almost double defence spending to 2% of GDP.