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Auckland Inc losing faith in Govt's economic strategy
Briefly in my Picks ‘n Mixes and Dawn Chorus for full subscribers on Friday August 8, the top news, scoops and deep-dives in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate are:
* The Lead: Auckland Chamber of Commerce CEO Simon Bridges has electrified the political and economic landscape by calling for Government stimulus to help Aucklanders struggling with 6.1% unemployment.
* Bridges was effectively calling time on Auckland Inc’s patience over the Government’s pray-for-GDP-growth-from-OCR-rate-cuts strategy. See more analysis and detail below the paywall fold and in the…
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