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Good Point - heres the Trend since 2000 https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/monetary-policy-decisions
This just raises more questions!
People talk about the OCR like it's how things work but your link says the OCR was only introduced in 1999. How did things work prior to that? Because I know that people who have bewn around longer than me think of 7% mortgage interest rates as being closer to normal than what we have had from say 10 years ago until recently.
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.
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!