It is the Bank’s attempt to ensure that journalists, at least, have access to information on some of these important issues. Perhaps it is appropriate to end with a quotation from a speech given just last week by Mr Kerry McDonald, managing director of Comalco New Zealand and of course for a number of years Director of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.
These steps were essential for shoring up EMU and for showing the world that we were willing to do what is necessary.