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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Duncan Disorderly
6 mins to read

This engineered recession cost us our jobs

OPINION: The over-aggressive pumping of the interest rates lever is so damn brutal for some parts of the economy.

NBR columnist Duncan Garner speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Duncan Garner Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Without wanting to sound too dramatic; this engineered recession by the Reserve Bank Governor has just cost me, my mates, and colleagues at MediaWorks our jobs. Dozens of us without warning – dispatched from the company. Surprising for me because, just days earlier, I was shooting a marketing

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