On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 20th of September, Finance Minister Nicola Willis attempts to turn our economy around as we stare down the barrel of another recession.

Penny Simmonds spoke to AUT about their race-based ranking system to send professors to overseas conferences. So did she get to the bottom of it and stop it?

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson talk Dubai chocolate bars and Luke Combs coming back to the country, as they Wrap the Week.

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At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.

The economy: 4/10

Between the GDP and the current account, it’s a bad week of data. You could argue the upside is it might be the worst of it. It might be better from here on in.

Whining unions: 3/10

This week it was relief teachers. Name me the last time unions said something, anything, positive.

The race edict: 8/10

Because doing stuff, handing stuff out, based on nothing more than race is racist.

The All Blacks: 7/10

Australia comes at just the right time. What we need off two losses is someone pretty useless. Australia - come on in.

Liam Lawson: 9/10

If the word is accurate, by the time the weekend is out we will have our next full-time driver in F1.

Federated Farmers: 125/10

That’s a birthday worth celebrating and of all the advocacy groups, I think they could be close to being my favourite.

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The US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the first time in more than four years – a significant political boost for the Harris campaign.

Rates have gone down by 0.5% to about 4.8%, a far bigger rate than economists had predicted.

Policymakers expect the rate to fall another 0.5% this year and go down to around 3% by the end of 2026.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that Donald Trump is complaining about the impact it will have for Harris’ campaign, calling the move by the Federal Reserve “sheer politics”.

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