5 Mar 2025

Will Adrian Orr's tenure be remembered as the tough years?

From Nights, 10:18 pm on 5 March 2025

The governor of the Reserve Bank has shocked the country today with a no-warning resignation.

Adrian Orr's first five-year term ran from 2018 to 2023, and he was two years into his second term when he resigned today.

The last seven years have been among the toughest in our economy's history, and the Reserve Bank has drawn both praise and criticism for its moves to get inflation under control.

Associate Professor Claire Matthews of Massey University is an expert in banking and joins Emile Donovan to weigh in on how Orr will be remembered.

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