We cling to the same predictable policy framework while our currency appreciates and the dilemma facing our exporters remains, writes John Walley. The world has changed and New Zealand needs to take notice.
Many of Mainzeal's workforce of 400 staff learned about the collapse of the company on Waitangi Day through the media.
Very weak jobs data from Statistics New Zealand yesterday raised economists' eyebrows.
New Zealand's unemployment rate fell from a 13-year high in the last three months of 2012 as people stopped looking for work and the participation rate shrank.
Auckland's property market had a booming January, with one real estate company selling 78pc more homes worth more than $1 million than the same month last year.
The New Zealand dollar has hit 76 on the Reserve Bank's trade-weighted index, its highest level since at least 1990, writes Brian Fallow.
Employment growth is moderate and wage inflation subdued, payrolls data for the December quarter suggest.
Almost two-thirds of the New Zealand workforce is looking for a new job in 2013.
Companies looking to invest or do business in China need to build up local relationships, use advisers who know the market.
Long-serving Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder has joined the exodus from the top of the state-owned enterprise, his departure welcomed on the West Coast.
The sale of a technology company to a British buyer has reignited debate over the Government's approach to research and development funding and Kiwi firms shifting overseas.
A stronger New Zealand dollar swamped further gains in world prices for export commodities last month.
Dry weather and the high kiwi dollar are causing "a deepening pessimism" to spread among sheep and beef farmers.
New Zealanders are showing a rising resistance to overseas investors, a business survey has found.
Kiwi power prices have increased at twice the rate of most other countries over the past three decades.
A slight rebound in the number of new home listings last month did little to alleviate pressure in the property market.
Marking 50 years of work at the Hillside foundry, Roger Parsons yesterday poured the last KiwiRail cast on site before heading to his local for a beer.
Alcohol company Independent Liquor sacked an employee over allegations of drunken misbehaviour at a Fight For Life charity boxing match it sponsored.
The idea that an overvalued exchange rate is the fault of the monetary policy framework has hardened into dogma, writes Brian Fallow.