The Rough Mechanical: The Man Who Could, by Alan Bollard - review

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By David Hill in Books

Issue 3802 14th Mar 2013

You can take this economist out of the Reserve Bank, but you can’t take him out of his novel.

Mortgage restrictions floated by Bill English could see “loans for pets”

By Ruth Laugesen in Economy

Issue Listener Plus 1st Mar 2013

Former Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard warned of return to 70s-style rules in a Listener interview last year.

Alan Bollard - novelist

By Toby Manhire in The Internaut

Issue Listener Plus 19th Dec 2012

NZ's former Reserve Bank governor was “struggling through the Global Financial Crisis by day, and novel-writing by night”.