Ryan Bridge: Something's not adding up with business investment in this country
If the Post is to believed this morning, the Government is considering a business growth fund whereby some crown agency would pick winners and probably a few losers with financial backing.
Chalmers did this in Australia.
There was apparently a meeting in April between Willis and Chalmers to talk about us joining his fund.
We're talking about minnows with revenue between one and ten million.
Unless the gas transition guarantor was the start of some kind of paradigm shift in the way this government thinks about private enterprise, then investment decisions in the private sector would be left…
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