Mike's Minute: Inflation number paints a grim economic and political picture
Along with the number, came the commentary, and the commentary was the thing that clearly stung the most.
Our inflation number is a disaster. 6.9 percent is something we all see, feel, and fear. There was no escaping it, given it's a statistic. It's a number, and numbers don't lie.
But Adrian Orr's commentary to the International Monetary Fund is the bit that clearly got under the governments, and particularly Grant Robertson's skin.
His line was we are not in a good place right now. It's a simple line and a damning truth, especially when you are the Government trying desperately to underplay…
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