Has anyone considered our Business leaders are delusional optimists?
Business confidence rises to highest level since 2014
Business confidence has risen in the latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO) for the December quarter of 2025.
The survey is a key indicator on the state of the economy, how businesses are poised for the year ahead and how the economy is performing compared to its full potential.
According to the survey, a net 39% of firms expect an improvement in general economic conditions over the coming months on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Business confidence is now at the highest level since March 2014.
Ummmmmmm….
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…I get that people in Business always have to accentuate the positive, that they must always be hustling and positive about the hustle but has it crossed anyones mind that these Business leaders are delusional optimists?
There are major issues confronting the economy because this hard right Government are promoting austerity while borrowing billions for tax cuts and corporate welfare.
The weird self belief of the Business Community comes across as neurotic and brittle like an addict before their next hit.
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Wishful thinking more like. As you say they always have to accentuate the positive. i.e. stretch the truth.
That is not the reality for a lot of businesses or other people.
To ask a few select elite business leaders for their thoughts on the subject is pointless.
Ask a few people at foodbanks what they think. Ask Pak’n Save customers. Ask people just walking down the street or living in country towns. Ask the Plunket or daycare parents, or the local hairdresser.
There’s no point in asking privileged, successful business owners. They are more than likely telling porkies because they don’t want to spook the horses, it’s election year.
If you have rounded up some people who have a positive outlook, you also need to round up people with a negative outlook. Balance is news. A one-sided report, is not.
Of course business confidence will be shown to rise as the 39% ‘dreamers’ try to brainwash the public that the economy is improving!?! Most of us won’t be conned again and can see clearly the name of the game. NZ is at an ALL TIME LOW – the stats speak themselves and it won’t matter what this inept CoC-up bring in now, the damage is well and truly done and will take some fixing! *Liquidations hit decade-high; *highest # of business closure in 14 years; *our youth fleeing to Australia; *prices going through the roof – etc. etc. Left, wakey, wakey, time to step up now and start ruffling the CoC’s feathers!
Many of the businesses folding were made weak by covid were weakened even more by the high inflation that came with the recovery and could not hold on until the recovery that is now happening. Being in business is a gamble and it does not always pay off .Some contributors cry about the failures but then condemn those that do well and call them names .
Neoliberal guff for National tanked the economy and businesses are taking the brunt.
I know a handful of these supposed ‘business leaders’ and their silence when discussions turn to the economic leadership of Luxon / Willis, Bishop and Seymour is ….deafening.
Normally they are full of their same old bullshit and bravado riddles about how they are going to “move New Zealand forward”, (whatever that means)…
Now that their leaders ..the ones they blind faith voted for at the last election, have failed miserably, it’s now up to their media friends to try and gaslight the general public and con everyone by telling them what a success story N.Z. is .
The proper stats, however, tell a very different story….
Labour had unemployment around 3.5 %
Under National ..now 5.6%
Apparently, because it is still around 5.6 % in the last 2 months, that is a success story for Naltional.
Delusional..good word!
Record growth in the number of businesses being liquidated is the only sure bet this year .
And record growth in Meth and Cocaine sales….the woke right are really nailing it!!