More proof from overseas that govt spending is not linked to consumer prices: US inflation rate back down to early 2021 levels and the amount of money that has been pumped into the economy to boost infrastructure and jobs is unprecedented.
Nicola Willis, meanwhile, celebrates the RBNZ rate cuts as "proof" that brutal austerity is the way to go, rather than the hurried response to slash-and-burn tactics that they are.
Right wing parties are economy destroyers. Every time.
#nzpol
Phil Stevens /
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