"Helicopter money" – cash payments to all citizens – cannot be ruled out in New Zealand's current coronavirus crisis, a fund manager believes. KEVIN STENT/STUFF Putting money directly in people's hands is one option open to Finance Minister Grant Robertson. Brad Olsen says the time is not quite right to give everyone a cash injection. Roper believes the global economy was already vulnerable before Covid-19 came along, with share prices out of sync with low levels of economic growth. That was partly due to factors that had underpinned the global financial crisis in 2008 never truly going away.

Source: Stuff April 05, 2020 23:37 UTC