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Governments around the world are talking about paying you to exist. It's called a universal basic income, and AI is the reason it's back on the table.

 

In this episode I look at what's actually being proposed here in New Zealand and overseas, what the real-world pilots in Finland and Ontario showed, what a land tax looks like from someone who actually holds lan...


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Someone commented that developers are deluded and my 695,000 home was a ripoff. Fair enough, I've heard worse. But it got me onto the argument I have nearly every day: get investors out and more Kiwis will own a home.

 

Partly right, but it answers the wrong question. So in this one I do something simple. I count the houses. When an investor sells a rental to a...


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John Kenel sits down with John Bolton from Squirrel, New Zealand’s biggest mortgage broker.

 

What’s getting funded, what’s getting declined, and why?

 

They discuss the OCR at 2.5%, the water companies that are now a bigger development risk than councils, why 41% of apartment sellers lost money last quarter, Australia’s negative-gearing changes, a...


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You're not falling behind because you're lazy or doing something wrong, the ground has genuinely shifted under ordinary Kiwis and nobody's bothered to explain why.

 

Power up 12%, council rates up 9%, insurance up 30% in three years, but the official inflation number says 3.1%.

 

Once you understand what's actually happening, you'll stop blaming yo...


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The Greens are calling it a capital acquisitions tax because inheritance tax doesn't poll well, but whatever you call it, it means the government takes a third of what you've spent your life building. This isn't just a tax debate, it's a family debate. Most inheritance isn't super yachts and mansions... It's a house, a small business, a few rentals that mum and dad built by w...


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