Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: My first election year prediction
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 9:59amKudos to Phillip Mills. He of the gym empire and, as it turns out, this election year's star turn in the donation department. His...
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Mike's Minute: There's an anticipation around 2026
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:57amWell, week one of the year and I feel there is much to be anticipatory about – perhaps even excited. As we look about the...
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Mark the Week: Trump's an infuriating mix of effective and insane
Friday, 23 January 2026, 10:31amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Trump:...
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Mike's Minute: ACC is being scammed, but it can be fixed
Friday, 23 January 2026, 10:25amACC is in crisis. I'm not sure if that’s news to you or not. They are sinking in a sea of debt. They are forecast in four...
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Mike's Minute: An ode to Dunedin
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 10:43amA nod to Dunedin. The place of my birth and a bunch of fairly happy years in the early part of my radio career. We were...
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Mike's Minute: Election issues are already popping up
Wednesday, 21 January 2026, 9:40amWe are standing by for the election date today. It’s not what it was, kind of like budgets. The suspense, the scuttlebutt,...
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Mike's Minute: Should Anna Breman be in trouble?
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 10:37amOf all the nutty stuff Trump is up to, the most egregious is the DOJ-Jerome Powell investigation. Powell —I have not one...
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Best of 2025: Mike's Minute - Here's the truth on working from home
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 1:24pmHasn’t working from home become funny? Seek have produced a thing called Money Matters, and they look at work-life balance. Actually,...
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Mike's Minute: The madness of the carbon auction needs to end
Saturday, 6 December 2025, 9:58amIt's the definition of madness. And stupidity. How many times do you have to do the same dumb thing with no result, thus...
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Mark the Week: School lunches were the stupidest story of the week
Friday, 5 December 2025, 10:37amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Consumers:...
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Mike's Minute: The NZ retail experience, a first hand view
Friday, 5 December 2025, 9:52amThe New Zealand retail experience, as summed up by a frustrated Katherine Hawkesby as of yesterday. She visited half a dozen...
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Mike's Minute: Still more questions to answer for the Reserve Bank
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 10:15amThe mail I'm getting got a bit more official yesterday with Fitch suggesting they think the Reserve Bank isn't done. A lot...
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Mike's Minute: I'm confident for 2026
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 9:52amIt probably came out on the wrong day to get the coverage it deserved, but one of the last pieces in the economic turnaround...
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Mike's Minute: The govt shouldn't have touched the carbon market
Saturday, 29 November 2025, 10:09amIf you follow the carbon market, and you should, it is yet another lesson in the abject failure that almost certainly results...
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Mark the Week: The maths trial results were an example of a simple truth
Friday, 28 November 2025, 9:38amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Education:...
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Mike's Minute: Why aren't more people excellent?
Friday, 28 November 2025, 9:28amIt’s the simple question with seemingly no simple answer: why aren't more people excellent? Naylor Love reported this week...
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Mike's Minute: Erica Stanford was right, the backlash is disgusting
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 11:38amI tell you what I like about all the educators whinging away over the curriculum redo and the Treaty treatment: they are...
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Mike's Minute: Hopefully Christian tells us the page has turned
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 9:57amIt's the Reserve Bank outing this week. One last hurrah for the year. It has a certain anticlimax about it, doesn't it? It's...
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Mike's Minute: Are banks behaving badly or not?
Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 10:02amRegular listeners will be aware of my ongoing angst over banks and whether or not they are legit players in our marketplace. The...
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Mike's Minute: We need to understand debt better
Saturday, 22 November 2025, 9:37amThere is a growing idea in economic circles in America that young people might never own anything. It's based on the recent...
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Mark the Week: This week could have been so different for the All Blacks
Friday, 21 November 2025, 10:43amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Uber:...
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Mike's Minute: Richard Chambers is the Police Commissioner we need
Friday, 21 November 2025, 10:25amWould we be asking the questions of Police Commissioner Richard Chambers if we hadn't been dealing with McSkimming and Coster...
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Mike's Minute: This is why the govt shouldn't mess with markets
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:29pmThis is how we end up in trouble. Things are said that aren't challenged. Here's the headline: "NZ will be dumping ground...
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Mike's Minute: Can the Opportunity Party succeed?
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 9:53amWell, welcome back Opportunity. I think I have that right. Opportunity is the former "The Opportunities Party". Now it's...
