The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

Why the young need an even higher debt ceiling

Robertson lifts debt limit that strangled investment for 30 yrs & created a $104b infrastructure deficit; He wants to use some of the extra headroom to invest, but the ceiling still isn't high enough

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Bernard Hickey
May 03, 2022
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TLDR: After 30 years of living in a budgetary straitjacket that squeezed infrastructure spending down into a $104b deficit, Labour’s Finance and Infrastructure Minister Grant Robertson is finally releasing a few of the shackles so Governments of both flavours can start catching up in the longer term.

The bigger question is whether Robertson’s new net pub…

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