When the Facts Change

Hosted by journalist Bernard Hickey, When the Facts Change is your essential weekly guide to the intersection of economics, business and politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Presented by The Spinoff together with Kiwibank.


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Business News
Politics
201
What we've learned about working from home
53 min
202
The B Corp moment
43 min
203
How sustainable is your supply chain?
47 min
204
Cleaning up capitalism from the inside out
38 min
205
Bonus episode: Why Kiwibank is embracing te ao ...
40 min
206
The future of capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
45 min
207
The case for mandatory vaccines in the workplace
45 min
208
Bonus episode: How businesses are responding to...
23 min
209
Who's taking advantage of the wage subsidy scheme?
44 min
210
How should we plan our population?
60 min
211
The political economy of the climate crisis
56 min
212
How do we fix our unkind migration system?
60 min
213
Back to the future of public transport
41 min
214
Bonus episode: SMEs with Kiwibank’s Joanna Greaves
The Spinoff business editor Michael Andrew speaks to Joanna Greaves, head of the small and medium enterprise team at Kiwibank.
34 min
215
How do we get a vaccination rate over 80%?
Around the world, countries are seeing Covid-19 vaccination rates plateauing at around 50-60% – and it's hurting them badly. So how will we get our Covid-19 vaccination rates up to the 80%-90% required for herd immunity?
37 min
216
A big money-saving solar power idea
New Zealand's electricity market isn't working to produce enough renewable power to get to carbon zero by 2050 – but maybe there’s a solution in solar power and batteries in everyone’s homes.
32 min
217
An epic intergenerational wealth transfer
36 min
218
Looking for hope in our housing crisis
52 min
219
Bonus episode: Digital innovation with Kiwibank...
24 min
220
How home ownership became the impossible dream
55 min
221
Why is New Zealand’s housing stock so bad?
40 min
222
New Zealand's path to carbon zero
38 min
223
The future of currency
46 min
224
Designing a social insurance scheme that works
36 min
225
Budget 2021: Reversing the mother of all budgets
31 min