Government surplus gets silver lining and clouds reviews
Politics: Don’t hold your breath that a strong set of government finances will turn around business pessimism.
Brent Edwards
Thu, 10 Oct 2019
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Hawke’s Bay
Throughout the 2000s, the then Labour-led government repeatedly returned stronger-than-expected surpluses.
Despite that, it was continually accused of being wasteful and a poor manager of the public finances and the economy.
By the time it left office at the end of 2008 the New Zealand
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Brent Edwards
Thu, 10 Oct 2019
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