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Mark the Week: The GDP figure was the icing on the rotten economic cake

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Fri, 19 Sept 2025, 10:22am
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Mark the Week: The GDP figure was the icing on the rotten economic cake

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Fri, 19 Sept 2025, 10:22am

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. 

 

Farmer confidence: 8/10 

In an economic world of woe, it's good to see a decent chunk of people doing well and enjoying it. 

 

GDP: 2/10 

Sort of the turgid, rank, icing on the rotten economic cake. How does a Reserve Bank not see a contraction of that size? 

 

Eden Park: 7/10 

Best news of the week as reality finally arrived in suburban Auckland. Have a massive facility and actually use it? How novel.   

 

Shane Jones: 6/10 

Didn’t we already think he was the deputy? 

 

Jimmy Kimmel: 3/10 

If they stuck with being light and entertaining, not angsty and angry, they might not be getting yanked off air or sacked. 

 

Benjamin Doyle: 2/10 

What a hapless, self-aggrandising waste of time. The Greens have got a massive credibility issue when it comes to candidate selection. 

 

LISTEN ABOVE FOR MIKE HOSKING'S FULL WEEK IN REVIEW 

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