Our economic recovery: Want the good news or the bad news?

Our economic recovery: Want the good news or the bad news?

Tourists are coming back, manufacturing is picking up, our primary industries are doing well and that’s filtering into South Island cities. We’re seeing some good company results, inflation is down and the services sector is finally seeing some growth. We should see economic expansion in the third and fourth quarters this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is, improvement is slight and sometimes marginal; unemployment, especially youth une…