Joel Maxwell (Te Rarawa) is a senior journalist.
OPINION: It’s starting again. I’m sure of it.
Over the past week I noticed money draining out of my bank account with the same mysterious urgency as it did post-Covid.
It’s like a bad dream - when I check my transactions there’s no single leak, no online pirates stealing my loot, just a whole lot of slightly more expensive regular purchases bleeding me dry. It’s an attack you only notice scrolling backwards.
In a nutshell I think the knock-on impact of fuel price hikes has arrived, transforming grocery bills into that cumulative elephant stomp on our personal budget we experienced four years ago.
