When the Facts Change Podcast
1) Going up after digging down
Billions has been spent on the construction of Aucklandās City Rail Link, largely at the cost of taxpayers and ratepayers. The current Auckland council zoning rules, however, prevent the building of h...Show More
2) To cut or not to cut?
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 an...Show More
3) Post Covid hybrid work
Many bosses now want their workers back in the office full time, but for a while in the immediate aftermath of Covid, workers had the power to demand the flexibility to stay home. Now the jobs market ...Show More
4) How big do we want to be?
Itās no secret that Aotearoa is facing a range of monumental infrastructure challenges ā much has been made lately of the state of our water pipes, ferries, railways and roads. Successive generations ...Show More
5) An abundance of energy
āAbundanceā is the hottest word in the political economy right now all around the world. A book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein called āAbundance: How we build a better futureā argues the centre-left...Show More
6) Dissension in the RBNZ ranks
The Reserve Bank cut the Official Cash Rate this week, as expected, but one of the six members of the bankās rate setting committee voted to hold the OCR. That surprised markets and pushed up the whol...Show More
7) Budget special: When The Facts Change x Gone By Lunchtime
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 n...Show More
8) Let the Budget battles commence
Fresh off a pre-Budget speech that took aim at the recent changes to pay equity, Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins joins Bernard Hickey to discuss the governmentās plans to cut $4.4 billion of spendin...Show More
9) Warmer, drier - and cheaper in the long run
In 2010, the NZ Green Building Council introduced the Homestar sustainability certification, a framework that aims to allow designers, architects and builders to build better, more environmentally fri...Show More
10) Housing market psychology 101
This week, Bernard Hickey dives into the psychology of the housing market and talks to realestate.co.nz CEO Sarah Wood about why so many home sellers are holding on and simply not selling, rather than...Show More