Govt grasping at economic growth straws

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Feb 6, 2025 · 16m

Long stories short, the top six things in our political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, February 7:

* PM Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis are set to announce another apparently splashy growth policy on Sunday of offering residence visas to wealthy migrants, but like the Invest NZ foreign direct investment policy announced last month, it is another low-impact and slow-burn measure that won’t do much to juice economic growth this year;

* The political imperative is growing for the personally-unpopular Luxon to fire up economic growth fast, given the…