Manufacturing: the politics of a bogus 'crisis'

At this rate, by December Russel Norman and David Parker will still be declaring there is a desperate crisis in manufacturing, if you exclude all parts of manufacturing except a horseshoe foundry in Mosgiel. 

Rob Hosking
Mon, 17 Jun 2013

You could hear the sighs of relief – nay, the whoops of delight – from the opposition wing of Parliament when news of 84 jobs lost by a Blenheim manufacturing firm arrived on Friday.

Earlier that day, the monthly performance of manufacturing (PMI) figures showed the sector in the best heart

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