Christchurch rebuild: Does the economy have to swallow a rat?
Christian Hawkesby Fri, 07 Dec 2012
OPINION
The mantra of most economists this year has been that “you can’t cut interest rates because of the Canterbury rebuild”.
In a sense, 2.5% has become New Zealand’s zero boundary – a level of interest rates that cannot be breached, in a way that the US and UK have decided not cut below their