Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Does Chris Bishop have a point about house prices?
I'll tell you what I found interesting over the last few days it's the enormous surprise at the start, and now the debate about Chris Bishop saying it's a good thing that house prices are falling.
He was asked about this on Friday and he said, yes, it's a good thing and that we've got to decouple the idea that the New Zealand economy is driven by house prices - labelling it 'artificial wealth'.
The immediate response to that was shock that anyone could say it, but especially a National Party minister.
And now, 3 days later, there are still newspaper pieces expressing surprise that he's got…
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