Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

You know how easy it is to spend other people‘s money right? Children and politicians are experts at it. Most of us were confronted with yesterday's news regarding the rate of inflation and the impending impact we can expect to see on just about everything we purchase. My grandfather told my mother - who also told all of her seven children that if you don’t have the money in your pocket - you can’t afford it. Clearly that doesn’t apply to the purchase of something essential like somewhere to live. But perhaps if more of us were to live within our means instead of that constant hedonistic desire to keep up with everybody else hellbent on having the latest of everything, the country might be in a better place. Or would it? Maybe if we had a government that was more honest about our financial situation and less inclined to spend other people’s money on questionably unessential frivolities, we might be in a better position. We are constantly reassured that the country is in a good place by Jacinda Ardern and Gran