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Friday's Chorus: 'Squashed Bottom' waaaay more stressed than the 'Squeezed Middle'
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Friday's Chorus: 'Squashed Bottom' waaaay more stressed than the 'Squeezed Middle'

Oct 26, 2023
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TL;DR: The key news in Aotearoa’s political economy today includes:

  • Fresh mortgagee sale data from CoreLogic showing the ‘squeezed middle’ portrayed by the incoming National-ACT Government to be in dire financial straits is not actually having to sell their homes, with an average of less than 10 forced sales a month this year, compared with 255 a month i…

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