Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 12/9/23

The PREFU can be interpreted to support this party – or that one – but in the upshot, whatever will be will be

There was nothing new, when Point of Order checked out the government’s official website around noon, but Finance Minister Grant Robertson has posted good news since then.

At least, he shared with us the best of the news in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update, released today.

Robert MacCulloch: Has Grant Robertson got a hole in his forecast for 5 million Kiwis....

.....but not for 100,000 immigrants?

I can't make sense of the Finance Minister's statements today regards the "Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update" by the NZ Treasury. He claims the country is in better shape than expected and that the "forecasts showed New Zealand would avoid recession, with wages keeping ahead of inflation".