The pain being felt by New Zealand mortgage owners and by exporters battling with a high Kiwi dollar and high interest rates looks likely to spark an investigation.
After squabbling by political parties over a solution, the matter could now be put before a parliamentary inquiry.
This is export year and the government wants more children to learn about the global economy. But ministers themselves are learning some tough lessons - the high dollar is crippling exporters and threatening manufacturing jobs.
Some believe the answer is for politicians from all parties to put aside their differences to find new solutions.
"We're certainly happy to join multi-party discussions but they have got to be without a pre-determined agenda and at the moment everyone seems to be saying 'we'll only come to the table if these things are on the agenda'," says United Future leader Peter Dunne.
Now a parliamentary select comittee inquiry is being suggested as a compromise.
Prime Minister Helen Clark says it would be informative and educative for those who sit on the select commitee.
"And who knows, parliament might surprise itself and find some common ground."
The government wants the inquiry to focus only on monetary policy - that is the way the Reserve Bank reins in inflation by lifting bench mark interest rates and cuts them when it wants to stimulate the economy.
National leader John Key has responded cautiously to the idea of a select committee inquiry.
"We're quite happy to leave politics at the doorstep to try to find a solution for all New Zealand but I would caution that there is no silver bullet to tackle monetary policy," he says.
A key factor in all this soul searching has been the rampant housing market. Some suggest taxing the capital gains made on investment properties.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen is not keen on that but believes the tax system could be used to cool the housing market.
"There are other issues around taxation which may be worth looking at and I think Mr Key shares those views," Cullen says.
An inquiry would most likely be done by parliament's finance and expenditure committee which represents nearly all the parties.
But while all would be likely to agree that the dollar and interest rates are too high, they are not likely to agree on the solutions.
