Mike Hosking

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Mike Hosking

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. The Golden Visas: 7/10 Part of what's turning out to be a pretty solid run for the Government. There seems genuine interest from the wealthy to come and park up here and grow the place. Business sales: 6/10 Demand is up, supply is down. People want to chart their own destiny, which is always a very good sign.

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Mike Hosking

My fun fact of the week, not that it's that fun or even new, given it's been around if you could be bothered looking. In Hawke’s Bay there are 56 mayors, chairs and councillors spread across five councils. Just for Hawke’s Bay. Not Mexico City, or London, or New York. Hawke’s Bay, in little old regional New Zealand. This is contained in an excellent piece well worth reading over the long weekend to be found on the Newsroom website. Broadly it looks into amalgamation of councils.

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Mike Hosking

I wonder if we are doing ourselves more harm than good when it comes to our finances, if not our general mental health, with what seems to be an industry in polling and surveys. The latest IPSOS work has over 40% of us not happy about money and a decent chunk of us "struggling". What is "struggling"? It's open to a lot of interpretation, isn't it? Mood doesn’t necessarily deal in fact, and in that is part of the issue. The facts are, on average, our wages are outpacing inflation.

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Mike Hosking

I have a good example as to why so many people don’t trust the media. Like most things it's got complicated and a lot of it is fuelled by emotion. So a simple survey, the likes of which was published by AUT over the weekend, can never come close to capturing exactly what the relationship between the industry and the punter really is. But the US President had a medical over the weekend.

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Mike Hosking

My ongoing advice to the Government is: don’t make big announcements on a Friday. I watched the Prime Minister from Waikato at the Ruakura Superhub. This is what the Government lives for. It's what they dream of. It's what they preach. The Superhub by the way is one of the great visions for this country. It services 45% of the population and 55% of GDP. It's part of what they call the "Golden Triangle" when it comes to business, servicing Hamilton, Tauranga and Auckland.