I was chatting to someone yesterday about what was behind the undisciplined, highly political, way in which Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr has taken to the job. My interlocutor reckoned Orr might have his eye on a high place on Labour’s 2023 list (“doing a Brash”). I was a bit sceptical – he’d be about 60 and Jacinda Ardern about 43 – but then I guess this is the era where a youngish (only 72) Trump could be facing off against either Bernie Sanders (77) or Joe Biden (76). I still doubt Orr has a conscious personal party political goal in mind – and if he did, it would be highly inappropriate for him to be serving as Governor – and suspect it is mostly about revelling in being a big fish in a small pond, the opportunity to strut his personal ideological commitments using a statutorily provided (and…
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