Anna Breman: The new RBNZ Governor on inflation, being told off by Winston Peters & more

About this episode

Anna Breman discusses the RBNZ's commitment to managing inflation and the implications of potential OCR hikes during an election year.

The RBNZ Governor Anna Breman says the Reserve Bank 'will do what is best for the NZ economy and to reach our inflation target' even if it's an OCR hike in election year

People in this episode

Host: Gareth Vaughan

Guest: Anna Breman

Topics covered

• inflation
• RBNZ
• economy
• OCR hike
• politics
• New Zealand

Keywords

• RBNZ
• inflation
• OCR
• Winston Peters
• New Zealand economy
• interest rates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RBNZ

Places: NZ

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