Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
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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Opinion
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...
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Mike's Minute: Labour talks tough, but it rings hollow
Saturday, 15 November 2025, 9:51amIt’s a slightly odd message from Labour over the Māori Party as they try and work out how to deal with them. The truth is...
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Mark the Week: Winston has started stirring
Friday, 14 November 2025, 10:11amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. NZ...
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Mike's Minute: It's been an excellent economic week
Friday, 14 November 2025, 10:07amOnce again we find ourselves in the midst of an excellent economic week. It's excellent, if you wish to see it that way. 100%...
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Mike's Minute: Why the increased cost of labour will hurt our economy
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 11:22amIn America at the moment there is a lot of talk about the “K” shaped economy. Car dealers see it. If you have a good, safe...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Gun law debate ends in a whimper, not a bang
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 10:07amIt seemed like a thing, until it wasn’t. Guns are like fluoride and the MSM – they get people angsty. Out of the Christchurch...
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Mike's Minute: The BBC scandal shakes the roots of journalism
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 10:53amI'm trying to work out what the ratio would be. How much squeaky clean, beyond doubt, rock solid truth would the BBC need...
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Mike's Minute: ACC and the work from home legal case
Saturday, 8 November 2025, 10:03amThe ACC vs union work from home legal case is a good one and it became even better after the Westpac dispute in Australia...
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Mark the Week: A good week for NZ Inc.
Friday, 7 November 2025, 10:45amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. NZ...
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Mike's Minute: The PM lacked a backbone this week
Friday, 7 November 2025, 10:12amAnother missed opportunity this week driven by fear and blunt honesty, or lack of it. When asked on Wednesday in Parliament...
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Mike's Minute: Quality is recession proof
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 11:13amI am hoping events this week, at least in some small way, teach us all a simple economic lesson or two. Lesson 1: the red...
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Mike's Minute: You win in court but suffer financially - how does that work?
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 11:17amHere is a line up: Alex Salmond, former head of Scotland, Dame Noeline Taurua, and Siouxsie Wiles, as in the microbiologist. The...
