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.
Housing.
8/10.
"On fire for another week.
Profits on sale, prices asked, auctions attended, scraps with politicians, and angst for first timers. This is the soap opera that just won't quit."
Grant Robertson's Letter to Adrian Orr over Housing.
5/10.
"It's smoke and mirrors and we are being played."
Adrian Orr's Response.
5/10.
"Like he didn’t already take housing into account, like he didn’t know his FLP money is going out the door to houses.
Come on, are we thick? No, we are not."
Capital Gains Tax "by Stealth."
3/10.
"I wouldn’t rule it out.
They won't call it that, they’ll spin a bright-line extension like they’ve never spun a bright-line, but it's essentially the same thing."
Helen Clark Foundation's Call for a Higher Minimum Wage.
3/10.
"Those who ask the loudest are never the ones paying.
And they're almost always devoid of economic knowledge and reality."
Third Quarter Spending.
9/10.
"We went nuts.
We bought everything in sight, several of them in fact, and the stats back it up."
Local Councils.
3/10.
"Surely this is not a model that is sustainable?
There are real issues in Invercargill, Tauranga, Northland, Taupo, Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland.
We can't be bothered voting, they're changing the laws on Maori Wards, half those running the places hate each other, and the other half are useless.
How is that serving us well?"
Canada.
7/10.
"A major survey found of all the places people wanted to live, if they could leave their own country, Canada was the top pick."
New Zealand.
8/10.
"Of all the places who tackled Covid, we were the best."
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