Country: New Zealand

In this week's episode of the Crypto Curious podcast, we're diving headfirst into a week of groundbreaking developments in the cryptocurrency universe.

Earlier this month, New Zealand proposed a world first - having farmers pay for the emissions of their animals. Essentially, a methane tax for livestock. In a country that only has 5 million people, but 10 million cows and 26 million sheep - and where 50% of their emissions come from agriculture, it's no surprise it's front of mind in New Zealand's battle to get to net zero. In this episode, Alec and Sascha talk about how New Zealand are proposing to tax emissions from agriculture, and then look at whether this is a model the rest of the world will follow.

New Zealand is leading the world on raising rates, so why is Australia different? There's $200bn dollars worth of companies on the ASX300 that are making no money - should we be worried? Is The Great Resignation actually a thing, and why is the Housing Inquiry arguing about whether houses are like mandarins or not? All this and more on this week's Comedian v Economist.