The Hoon: Budget 2023, the $5 prescription fee, market studies, Luxon’s (un)popularity and two curious foxes
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for paying subscribers included:
* All the key details from Budget 2023 on Thursday, where I travelled to Wellington for the Budget lockup and asked Finance Minister Grant Robertson about just how inflationary the Budget was. I also asked Housing Minister Megan Woods about why Labour is only planning one more year of state house building by Kainga Ora. Here’s more in Thursday’s Budget special email;
* My analysis of how the Budget’s net stimulus was worth around one percentage point of GDP, which is expected to add…
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