Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Confidence in our economy is growing
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 10:40amThe good news is confidence in our economy is improving. It has been a decent week: farmers confidence is up and markedly,...
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Mike's Minute: The beginning of the end for Hipkins
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 11:00amIt's only when you read the full detail in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll that you start to get a feel for where...
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Mike's Minute: Why did we need a directive on race?
Monday, 16 September 2024, 11:18amWhen a Government has to issue an email directive the way they did on Friday over race, there is something profoundly wrong...
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Mike's Minute: The ideology for our cities will never be reality
Friday, 13 September 2024, 11:05amIs it possible one of the great mistakes of the modern era has been made around our cities? There are increasing areas of...
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Mike's Minute: The super debate is fraught
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 9:49amAs we enter yet another round of the superannuation debate, I note it was led off last week by a group that wanted what they...
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Mike's Minute: IRD needs to be addressed
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 10:13amThe cock up that the Inland Revenue Department has engineered gives us a good insight into how the public service is run. They...
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Mike's Minute: Does Luxon regret this part of the coalition agreement?
Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 10:09amAs I watch the Prime Minister, as I do for Post-Cabinet each Monday, I wonder whether he regrets ever entertaining ACT's...
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Mike's Minute: Our wrecked economy is making international headlines
Monday, 9 September 2024, 9:17amLast year was the first time in 20 years that there were fewer cafes than the year before. If that isn't a reality check...
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Mike's Minute: The tourist levy doesn't improve our plight
Wednesday, 4 September 2024, 10:31amThere are a number of things that stand out to me post-Covid that are disappointing. Obviously the recessionary state this...
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Mike's Minute: Can we achieve bipartisan results in this day and age?
Tuesday, 3 September 2024, 10:38amThe letter from the energy industry yesterday got less coverage than the call last week for a bipartisan approach to big...
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Mike's Minute: Banks - The perceived problem vs what's actually happening
Monday, 2 September 2024, 1:44pmWith the news last week that a lot of people are changing banks as they re-finance their mortgages, we once again ask ourselves...
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Mike's Minute: We must question insurance companies
Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:06amIs the insurance market the last to get a good going over from the regulatory authorities? Having become a country that...
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Mike's Minute: Surely the clock is ticking for Chris Hipkins
Thursday, 29 August 2024, 10:39amYou can see how the rumblings around the future of Chris Hipkins as Labour Leader have started. They have added to their...
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Mike's Minute: The Goldsmith scandal is no scandal
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 10:12amIt was never five percent, it was always spit balling. Paul Goldsmith as Treaty Negotiations Minister is in a meeting with...
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Mike's Minute: The vibe of the economy is turning
Friday, 23 August 2024, 10:55amAs we end the week can I proffer the idea that there is an intangible starting to bubble as a result of Adrian Orr's big...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: We need the full story on the power crisis
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 11:20amA not unfair question to ask, as we return to the power crisis of 2024, is are we being told the full story? For the third...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: There won't be any action on the banking report
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 10:46amBig report day for big issues. Report Number One: The ComCom and the business of banking. The market doesn’t work, more...
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Mike's Minute: The Government have read things right
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 11:01amSo, one poll tells us something by not really moving and another poll tells us something by being badly misrepresented. The...
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Mike's Minute: The Waitangi Tribunal are overstepping
Monday, 19 August 2024, 1:16pmFor a Government looking to save money, it beggars belief that they haven't had a decent look at the Waitangi Tribunal. Yet...
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Mike's Minute: You can't trust Adrian Orr
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 10:04amThe great crime out of Adrian Orr's move is you can't trust him. A central bank is supposed to get the economy and he and...
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Mike's Minute: New Zealanders leaving could be Labour's worst legacy
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 11:20amMy least favourite data dump yesterday. Firstly tourism – which yet again reminds me how, when I was asking well in excess...
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Mike's Minute: This was the best Olympics ever
Monday, 12 August 2024, 9:19amThe best Olympics ever. Sadly it wasn’t in our timezone, which doesn’t help the communal buzz of a nation gathered together. But...
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Mike’s Minute: More eyes on the RB isn’t a bad thing
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 10:12amAn upside to Covid is most of us got into the Reserve Bank “thing”. We thought about it more than we ever had, and had a...
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Mike's Minute: Health is adjusting back to being fair
Friday, 2 August 2024, 10:04amWe end the week with a bit of good health news. We have been weighed down this week with the scrap over 14 layers of management,...
