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Reserve Bank leaves official cash rate at 5.5%
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Price controls, tax rates and national wage arbitration between businesses and unions were all inflation influencing levers govt used.
Fucked if I know for the bit between the late 80s and 1999 though cause all that other stuff was dumped throughout Rogernomics era labour and the 90s national govt.
Thanks for the explanation!
Looking at historical inflation, it seems there weren't many good controls prior to the 90s. Inflation was all over the place.
I think there was some way RBNZ could influence interest rates prior to the OCR... perhaps it was more direct than it is now? I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure there was something (and can't find any info about it).
Fun fact. Modern inflation rate targeting monetary policy was invented in NZ by Don Brash (and others). It has since become economic gospel for most western banking systems. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/upshot/of-kiwis-and-currencies-how-a-2-inflation-target-became-global-economic-gospel.html
That's a really interesting read, thanks for sharing!