Six years after raising concerns about the level of New Zealand’s borrowing, Robert Muldoon was depicted in a cartoon sitting on a house of cards representing later loans. Like many New Zealand ministers of finance, Muldoon had realised that the only way to obtain capital for necessary investment without reducing spending at home and raising the level of domestic savings was to borrow from abroad.
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Cartoon by Bob Brockie
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