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Bernard’s last Saturday Soliloquy for 2024
Mōrena. Long stories short, the six things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in the week to Saturday, December 21 (Gravy Day) are:
* Nicola Willis pledged this week to cut public spending even harder to reduce public indebtedness after learning the first year of austerity had already helped cause New Zealand’s worst recession since Ruth Richardson’s Mother of All Budgets in 1991, and was making it even harder to reduce debt/GDP because the strategy to cut debt to GDP was increasing debt and reducing GDP;
* Simeon Brown and Christopher Luxon…
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