A post this morning doing something rare: praising National, or more particularly their finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith.
There was an article on Stuff yesterday, and in the Dominion-Post this morning, in which Goldsmith is quoted as suggesting that politicians should set policy. In this particular case, National is proposing that the Governor of the Reserve Bank – unelected, and in effect appointed by other unelected people – should not get to set regulatory policy around banks all by himself, but that politicians – in this case the Minister of Finance – should do so.
The article begins in a rather overwrought style
National Party Finance Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith wants to shake-up banking, by ripping a scab that hasn’t been touched for 30 years.
Goldsmith has called into question the independence of the Reserve Bank, responsible for setting interest rates and regulating banking.
But read on a bit and, of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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