Treasury secretary Dr Caralee McLiesh has been given authority to spend $150-$200 million a month to pay for the losses the Reserve Bank is incurring on its large-scale asset purchasing programme.
Those payments will likely go up as New Zealand Debt Management begins to buy back government bonds
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