Central (bank) planning and other things to do or not in 100 days

Central (bank) planning and other things to do or not in 100 days
RBNZ's governor, Adrian Orr. (Image: Getty)
David Chaplin
Right. The 100-day plan starts now.Not now now, but maybe someday between Nov 11 and Dec 22.And then it will all kick off. Or perhaps after the summer holidays.Whatever, from a yet-to-be-defined starting point, there will be 100 days (working ones?) of intense legislative activity as the new government “gets things done”, as prime minister-in-waiting Christopher Luxon promised in an Oct 1 press release.Top of the Luxon things-to-do-with-power list is, of course, removing the Auckland regional fuel tax that “adds 11.5 cents per...

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