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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Nicola Willis: Finance Minister on the inquiry into the Reserve Bank's decisions during Covid, banking
Description: The Finance Minister's rejecting an accusation it's using Covid as an election tactic.  Nicola Willis announced an independent review this year of the monetary policy the Reserve Bank delivered during the pandemic. It'll be released just weeks before the election, and Labour's Chris Hipkins claims the Government's aiming to revive pandemic conspiracies. Willis told Mike Hosking she suspects it wouldn’t have mattered what the timing is, the reaction would’ve been the same – their political opponents saying they shouldn’t be asking these questions.  But she says when the Reserve Bank did its...