Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Shaun Hendy, University of Auckland, and Siouxsie Wiles, University of …
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Government should take short-term equity stakes in Covid-19 afflicted companies – rather than free money, says Alex Duncan. Before the Covid-19 crisis, government debt was around $64 billion, or about 20% of Gross Domestic Production (GDP). Achieving this took years of hard political graft and fiscal discipline by governing parties on both sides of Parliament. It is just as well, …
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