The article frames New Zealand's 2025 economic struggles as a 'dying marriage,' highlighting rising unemployment, inflation, mass emigration to Australia, and public disillusionment with government claims of recovery, while examining the political competition between parties to贏g
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I think it won't go up as much as we think. The reason is I think a lot of businesses are looking through what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz right now, just as we all are, to say, well, look. They will look, let's pause and wait. And what you see in the economy, I think, is pausing and waiting. I don't think the economy is going to hell in a handcart just yet. So I think businesses will try and hold off and try not to disemploy people or try to get rid of people. But I think the longer it goes on, they'll have no choice. But, you know, those unemployment figures today didn't surprise me. And I think you'll see the next ones won't leak up all that much because of that impact. This is not a downturn of trading conditions. It's a downturn of an expensive fuel problem that hopefully goes away at some stage in the next. In the next 12 months.
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retail sector under strain from broader slump
****Retailers looking for a tourism boost to turnaround trading woes**** \\ \\ **12 March 2025**\\ \\ Stats NZ electronic card transaction data for February 2025 shows total retail sales were down 4.25% compared to February 2024, with the total number of transactions down 2.7%, in a still struggling economy.spending cuts worsening unemployment and migration
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