# The Weekly Hoon: An amazing SpaceX IPO; NZ's $6.5b emissions credits bill; Auckland's de-intensification & Labour's fare cap policy

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Podcast: [The Hoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157)
Published: 2026-06-11T18:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer from Wellington about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with special guests: * BusinessDesk-$ podcaster and Listener tech columnist Peter Griffin on SpaceX ’s float and what it means for RocketLab; and, * Former NZ Herald-$ columnist and former Metro , Cuisine & Consumer magazine Editor Simon Wilson on Auckland Council ’s housing de-intensification vote and Labour ’s $20 fare cap policy this week. Simon has just launched his substack; Hopetown by Simon Wilson . I highly recommend subscribing. This week: * Bernard and Peter began the show with their three news items of the week, including Peter pointing to the Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swann scoop in the New York Times-$ ( gift link ) about Donald Trump’s Epstein files mess and Bernard pointing to the self-firing of CBS’ 60 Minutes host Scott Palley. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about Treasury ’s advice to the Government that it might have to buy up to $6.5 billion worth of climate emissions credits on onshore markets or from other Governments because New Zealand is on track to miss its Paris Accord commitments, which are now hard-coded into our trade agreements with the EU and UK. * Then Bernard and Peter talked with Simon and Peter about SpaceX, RocketLab, Auckland housing and Labour’s new transport policy. * Peter finished with Donald Trump’s ‘I Love Inflation’ quote as the ‘skateboarding dog’ item. The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. Peter Bal e will be back next we…

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