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Steven Joyce: Labour drifting along on a road to nowhere
From vaccination to harbour crossing - Labour's list of delivery failures is growing.
Matthew Hooton: My message to National - and how to avoid another leadership fiasco
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Brian Fallow: Climate change plan - emissions impossible for farmers?
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The ex-files: Bitcoin and breakups - how does it work?
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Liam Dann: RBNZ covers all bases with OCR balancing act
The RBNZ continues to keep its options wide open as it deals with Covid-19 uncertainty.
Richard Prebble: Everything I predicted is happening - the credit boom will bust us
New Zealand has adopted social credit, and National and Labour MPs have done nothing.
Juha Saarinen: Will Google's plan tame the cookie monster?
Browser tracking tool has been greeted with industry suspicion.
Oliver Hartwich: The politics of legal sausage-making
As the saying goes, "Laws are like sausages: Better not to see them being made".
Michael Wood: Why Govt has taken track it has with Auckland rail
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Liam Dann: America is going to war on tax havens and it's going to change the world
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Opinion: Why every Kiwi should back, or build a start-up
OPINION: Backing and building start-ups can do a lot for our future.
Bruce Cotterill: List of Government policy flops grows longer
Good design only works when accompanied by good engineering.
Fran O'Sullivan: Grant Robertson tightens Govt's grip on Air NZ
Robertson expects Government to be "involved in the process leading to board renewal".
Business Insider: The cheque's in the post, Brierley's parting gift
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Mary Holm: I have $300,000 to invest. Where should I put it?
If weighing up a high-return investment, first find out how they're doing it.
Brian Fallow: Expect Reserve Bank to keep things loose
With so much uncertainty ahead, now's not time to ease up on stimulatory pedal.
Matthew Hooton: The new Govt role that could wreck a career
The light rail idea seems to be on an endless loop - who's going to take the wheel?
Opinion: To support lower emissions, oppose the Climate Commission's plan
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Opinion: Has Air NZ lost its marketing mojo?
Air New Zealand's brand is inexorably linked to our country, our people and our culture.
Richard Prebble: Why Judith Collins is politically a dead leader walking
Labour is on the ropes on housing and how to return to normal - and Collins blew it.
Juha Saarinen: Oppo answering the Pro phone call
You might wonder what's Pro about smartphones. Easy: it's their camera systems.
Christopher Niesche: Australian house prices surge back up
COMMENT: House prices in Australia are rapidly scaling new heights.
Steven Joyce: Govt's direction - Forward into the past
The ghost of Muldoon's command economy has been revived — and the damage is growing.
Mary Holm: What if you are a renter and a landlord? One of many questions
A renter who's also a landlord misses out both ways from latest Govt changes.
Opinion: Labour tax changes - Broken promises and a socialist agenda
Even the IRD argued against the changes.
Kate MacNamara: Holiday driving: the myth and reality
There's nothing to suggest holiday driving is especially risky, so why the 'awareness'?
Matthew Hooton: NZ trapped in the vaccine queue
NZ is being left behind as faster-moving nations get on the road to normality.
Brian Fallow: Who'll feel the property pinch?
Latest moves to help new buyers could cut house prices, boost rents — or a bit of both.
Richard Prebble: Labour's housing package a loss of credibility moment
Never has a government traded away its credibility for so little.
Juha Saarinen: We have the tools to rein in runaway housing market
It's tedious and painful to repeat the mistakes of the past when we have the tools not to.