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Nicola Willis is right: NZ’s economy isn’t as bad as the ‘merchants of misery’ claim

  • Written by Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago
Nicola Willis is right: NZ’s economy isn’t as bad as the ‘merchants of misery’ claimFinance Minister Nicola Willis.Getty Images

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has called them the “merchants of misery”, but critics of her government’s economic performance doubled down when the June quarter GDP figures showed a contraction in many sectors.

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