Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The pressure's on the RBNZ to fix the economy - fast

Well, I think it's fair to say that the GDP print has come in at something of a shock.

The Reserve Bank was picking a contraction of 0.3 percent. The consensus was a contraction of 0.4 percent. The worst-case prediction from one of the banks was a contraction of 0.5 percent. It's come in at a contraction of 0.9 percent, which is basically twice as bad as most of us thought.

Robert MacCulloch: Where's our media? Where are the IMF GDP figures out yesterday proving Hipkin's fabricated NZs rank?

On the front pages of the UK Times today it reports the latest IMF growth figures that came out yesterday, on 10th October. Just a few days ago our PM insisted on Mike Hosking's Newstalk ZB show that NZ's GDP growth numbers put us higher then "every country other than Japan". I couldn't work out what he was talking about.