NZ now frozen, listless, mean & hopeless

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Jan 20, 2025 · 11m

Long stories short in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Tuesday, January 21:

* PM Christopher Luxon presented his new Cabinet this week as refreshed and refocused on hustling for economic growth, but again did so without any new strategies or policies beyond doubling down on extracting and selling resources and assets to prop up a housing market with bits tacked on;

* However, nearly half all professionals and managers surveyed for recruiter Robert Walters’ 2025 salary guide don’t buy it, and are either throwing in the towel and planning to migrate themselves…