Oh Dear.
Labour leader Andrew Little still wants to stiff-arm banks:
. . . ‘I stand by the stance I took, which is to get very heavy-handed with the banks. Because the truth is when the banks fail to follow the signal that the Reserve Bank is sending, that’s keeping money out of the back pockets of ordinary Kiwis, and I will always fight for their interests and for their rights. If the banks don’t want to play ball when it comes to the way we run our monetary policy, actually, there’s only one outfit that can really take them on, and that’s the government.’. . .
The Reserve Bank is independent because it’s not the government’s role to set interest rates.
Retail banks are independent businesses and it’s not the government’s role to tell them what interest rates they should charge.
Interest rates are at historically low…
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