Kelvin Davidson
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1,120 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Kelvin Davidson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A 10% trim, for example, if you take off 5% from the top, 5% from the bottom, that measure went from 2.6 to 2.9, so that's getting closer to the top of that target band.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's a few of the measures.
Depends.
And Reserve Bank has their own ones, which I'm not necessarily familiar with, but they must do a whole bunch of stuff behind the scenes to
add certain things in and take other things out and so i guess yeah where am i left it you know strikes me that you could put in whatever you want and take out whatever you want as well and you know it's the whole thing if you know my cricket batting average if i took out all my ducks i'd be you know don bradman or so you know i think there's a limit to what you want to do here i mean you know it
you can fiddle statistics any way you want um but so so i think there's a balance you know you probably want to ignore some one-offs but you don't necessarily want to ignore them all the time and let's face it we've still got headline overall cpi inflation 3.1 so and that's above the reserve bank's target and they're not they're not tasked with um keeping some measure of core inflation within target over the medium term it's headline cpi inflation and at the moment is above target so um
Yeah, there's lots of things to weigh up.
And I mean, I've already said the legs, you know, let's not panic about one number above target for now, because it's been a deep recession.
There's still capacity in the economy.
You know, inflation should come down.
So, yeah, I'm sort of there's lots to weigh up.
I mean, for me, I still I'm always a wee bit cautious of taking out the stuff that's inconvenient, you know, and focusing too much on
on whatever measure of core inflation you have.
I think in the end, 3.1% is above target.
That's what people see.
That's what people understand to some extent.
They're still sort of concerned about that cost of living, not only the level of prices, but also the growth rate.
So yeah, I just think, what does it amount to?
Probably that you have to, don't panic, but also don't ignore the possibility that inflation stays a bit higher for longer.
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