Latest news with #BernardHickey
RNZ News
15-07-2025
- Climate
- RNZ News
Weather reporting and why climate change hasn't been mentioned
weather climate 31 minutes ago As you've seen across the news, the Nelson and Tasman Districts have been hammered with adverse weather. Homes flooded, properties ruined, and livelihoods turned upside down. There have been lots of stories about the terrible weather events, but according to Bernard Hickey, none of them mentioned climate change. Bernard Hickey asks why not.
The Spinoff
04-07-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
When the Facts Change: To cut or not to cut?
Kiwibank economist Sabrina Delgado joins Bernard Hickey to assess our central bank's options leading into next week's monetary policy statement. The Reserve Bank gets another chance to cut interest rates next week. So far 2025 has seen the RBNZ make three consecutive cuts to the official cash rate, which was widely expected by economists up and down the country. But next week, for the first time this year, there's doubt. Kiwibank economist Sabrina Delgado joins Bernard Hickey on When the Facts Change this week to assess our central bank's options.
The Spinoff
05-06-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
When the Facts Change: An abundance of energy
Mike Casey from Rewiring Aotearoa joins Bernard Hickey to discuss what could be done right now to electrify our transport fleet and the cost of living savings within our grasp. 'Abundance' is the hottest word in the political economy right now all around the world. A book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein called Abundance: How we build a better future argues the centre-left should adopt urbanisation and electrification as central aims to improve affordability of housing and transport, rather than framing emissions reduction as an expensive and painful necessity that the right has successfully weaponised into electoral suicide. This week on When The Facts Change, Bernard Hickey talks to Rewiring Aotearoa about what could be done right now to electrify our transport fleet and the cost of living savings within our grasp.
The Spinoff
29-05-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
When the Facts Change: Dissension in the RBNZ ranks
Kiwibank senior economist Mary Jo Vergara joins Bernard Hickey to unpack this week's monetary policy statement, and look ahead to an uncertain future for rates in Aotearoa. The Reserve Bank cut the Official Cash Rate this week, as expected, but one of the six members of the bank's rate setting committee voted to hold the OCR. That surprised markets and pushed up the wholesale interest rates that drive fixed mortgage rates. Bernard Hickey speaks with Kiwibank's Mary Jo Vergara about a very uncertain outlook for rates in the wake of Donald Trump's Liberation Day shock.
The Spinoff
22-05-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime x When The Facts Change: A Budget special
Bernard Hickey crunches the numbers in a special Gone By Lunchtime meets When the Facts Change crossover episode. In the year of growth, Nicola Willis has presented a growth budget. But does the Investment Boost initiative, which speeds up depreciation for businesses, promise the kind of growth that the economy needs? In this special Spinoff pod for budget day, Toby Manhire asks Bernard Hickey for his take on the headline changes, and whether or not David Seymour's earlier commentary that his colleague Brooke van Velden had 'saved the budget' through its controversial and hurried changes to the pay equiry scheme, has been proven true. Plus: what are the cumulative impacts of the changes to KiwiSaver and Best Start, as compared to the SuperGold cohort? And how much did the global political and economic volatility influence the documents published today?
