Bing!

A report from the Minister for Growth, on the unemployment rate. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #unemployment #joblessness

In today’s NZ Herald

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Quite some hourly rate.

Back on track…how to redeploy capital from value-add factories and brands into (tax-free) leveraged land values. Where talent wants to live?

Lifeline has been operating for 60 years, but with no government funding has been forced to stop taking calls from those in need overnight.

Kia ora e hoa mā. I'm pleased to announce that I'm coming out of retirement to take up the role of Chief of Staff role for the Green Party in Parliament (think Malcolm Tucker, Leo McGarry). I'm not moving away from Te Tai o Poutini, but just now going the process of setting up a 2nd home in Wgtn.

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

FYI here’s my Daily Chorus email/newsletter. Open to all today in full immediately. Many thanks to paying subscribers for your support to make this available publicly. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/thursdays-...

The centre cannot hold.

Spoke to Watts on his way into the House. - He refused to estimate what it would cost the Govt to meet its Paris goal offshore (Tsy estimated $3-$24b) - said tech was moving fast. - Refused to comment on the fact the price of carbon dropped immediately.

i can't stop thinking about this video. how the campaign started w/ Mamdani as an unknown basically...just like out reporting on the political apathy in 2024. figuring out why people felt jaded. and then working to bring about the opposite. beyond remarkable www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tur...

A bonfire of the climate policies. An emissions Guy Fawkes Day

Five-byline alert: “.. The Trump admin has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect .. Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

The Globe and Mail

FYI today’s Chorus. I’ve opened it up immediately to all so those affected & can’t afford it can read & listen. Q3 jobs data is expected to show a slight rise in the jobless rate, but that disguises a jobs & mental health catastrophe for 15-35s since 2010. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays...

📢 Barfoot & Thompson's stock level the highest for the month of October since 2008 suggesting the buyer's market may persist over summer

The lucky country?

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Big tick down in Trump approval over the past several days -- is this about getting a bunch of high quality polls right before VA/NJ?

In today’s Chorus: After years of repaying mortgages early, the net credit impulse from households is about to warm up the 'bits tacked on' in our economy. Also, the Govt is scrambling as a systemic health crisis compounds & spreads #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/tuesdays-c...

Bits tacked on about to get some help.

The RBNZ specifically made sure interest costs aren't in the CPI and its inflation target is CPI. If its target was the Household Living Cost index, which it should be, it would have some awkward questions to answer about how tighter monetary policy (ie higher rates) actually makes inflation worse.

Our economic catastrophe of the last three years in chart form.

This will ok won't it? Asking for a few friends. Asking my auditor followers in particular.

The gap between non-fiction and satire is getting smaller and smaller.

Quick jobs numbers addendum. The Govt constrained public sector budgets, but it was private sector jobs that took the recession hit mostly. That's why Auckland is struggling to recover while Wellington is stabilising. [1/3]

Let's celebrate the update (finally) of Stats NZ Household Living Costs Price Index - a better measure of the cost of living than CPI. First thing to notice is that a big chunk of the increase in our cost of living was thanks to RBNZ hiking interest rates to tackle the cost of living! [🧵 1/n]

I am so here for this.

In today’s NZ Herald #NZPolitics

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Thursday's Chorus: $288 billion at risk. Kāinga Ora advice refuted. Wellington is emptying out. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/thursdays-...

I hope this ends well.

Flyover. Newsday.com/matt

We're famous. But in the wrong way. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

When the heroes at Stats NZ are screaming at the world to take notice. A clear separation between the cost of living for the wealthy and sorted folks who are seeing a rapid easing, and the bottom-feeders who are getting properly screwed.

The mortality rate for children under 5 in Russia is now lower than in the US. I'd consider this an embarrassment at the very least if I was American. Source: buff.ly/9d5QJ07

Brutal for Trump with young people

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Here’s my Daily Chorus for paying subscribers first: Politicos laud CGT-lite's low-target neutralisation of a tax negative with a health positive. Others want detail on interest deductibility, depreciation, build-to-rent & live-in commercial property. 1/2 #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays...

Chatted last night with @seaqub.bsky.social about Labour's CGT-lite policy, which he sees as a small step in the right direction. A more ambitious tax on wealth isn't politically possible now, but may be in future, he says. Open to all immediately. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/mini-hoon-...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

FYI I'm live with a pop-up Hoon on CGT Lite with Terry Baucher 5:15, Shamubeel Eaqub 5.30 and Susan St John 5.45. Free for all here. open.substack.com/live-stream/... And here riverside.fm/studio/berna...

My #nzpol cartoon for The Listener #megastrike www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

At this point, the New Zealand government is just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

U.S. Stock Market hits its most expensive valuation in history, surpassing the Dot Com Bubble and the run-up to the Great Depression 🤯

Labour just went for CGT-lite. It won't raise much money & won’t change the incentives in our housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy. It’s focus-group-hugging performative politics. It tells low wage renters flying to Australia: not much will ever change. It says; ‘Fly my pretties. Fly’. #nzpol