TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers features co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with:

* The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer about the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s moves this week to take farming out of the ETS and encourage more mining and oil and gas drilling;

* Robert Patman about the visit by China’s Premier Li Qiang to Wellington yesterday this week, what it means for Aotearoa-NZ’s relations with our largest trading partner, and whether we can (or should) join AUKUS II; and,

* Politico Europe contributing editor and columnist Paul Taylor about the swing to the right in European Union elections this week and French President Emmanuel Macron’s surprise decision to call Parliamentary elections after his party lost badly in those elections.

The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded last night during a live webinar produced by Simon Josey.

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Other things we did elsewhere

We produced an episode of When The Facts Change via The Spinoff, including this interview recorded on May 27 with Reserve Bank Chief Economist Paul Conway in the immediate aftermath of a surprisingly hawkish monetary policy statement, and just before the Budget.

We talked about where the inflation is coming from, why interest rates are staying high for longer than anyone expected, and whether the blunt instrument of the Official Cash Rate can affect this extra sticky inflation.

We also produce the 5 in 5 with ANZ daily podcast and Substack for ANZ Institutional in Australia, free to all via Spotify. Apple and YouTube

Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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