In the papers today in NZ I cannot find the IMF figures reported anywhere. So what do they (see link below) say about NZ's ranking. Are we second in the world after Japan, like the PM told Hosking? In 2023 the IMF ranks our GDP growth as 145th our of 173 countries, right near the bottom. As if that isn't bad enough, in 2024 it has put us at 168th, almost AT the bottom. We're still relying on the likes of Equatorial Guinea coming in behind us. Oh, and Sudan.
Are the Business Editors at Newshub, Stuff & NZ Herald going to call the PM to account for his false claim on Newstalk ZB that our GDP growth put us ahead of "every country other than Japan"? It was misinformation on steroids. Hipkins is the guy who went berserk about misinformation about the Covid vaccine, yet I cannot conceive of a greater piece of misinformation than telling 5 million Kiwis a few days before a General Election our country is ranked top of the world on GDP growth figures when we're ranked almost bottom.
How is he getting away with it?
Sources:
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/10/10/resilient-global-economy-still-limping-along-with-growing-divergences#:~:text=According%20to%20our%20latest%20projections,well%20below%20the%20historical%20average.
Are the Business Editors at Newshub, Stuff & NZ Herald going to call the PM to account for his false claim on Newstalk ZB that our GDP growth put us ahead of "every country other than Japan"? It was misinformation on steroids. Hipkins is the guy who went berserk about misinformation about the Covid vaccine, yet I cannot conceive of a greater piece of misinformation than telling 5 million Kiwis a few days before a General Election our country is ranked top of the world on GDP growth figures when we're ranked almost bottom.
How is he getting away with it?
Sources:
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/10/10/resilient-global-economy-still-limping-along-with-growing-divergences#:~:text=According%20to%20our%20latest%20projections,well%20below%20the%20historical%20average.
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
How does he get away with it?
Simple.
He has dirty pictures of journos at the Labour Xmas party ð
"How is he getting away with it?"
It's very simple really, Robert. Our MSM are biased and unfit to perform the duty of a true fourth estate.
They have taken money to report the Labour line, but most would have done it anyway because they are totally committed to the fault-ridden ideology of "progressive" socialism and wokeness.
I think that covers it.
Hipkins is a pathological liar protected by the CORRUPT MSM.
Yep, all that covers it and yet he ranks, equal first, as our preferred PM?
What are some people thinking? It seems his lies are only surpassed by others stupidity.
It was an understandable mistake he'd been hit by a motorcycle, or was a side effect of covid, anyway it was a simple mistake.
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