Any approach to lifting housing affordability has to be broader than boosting the responsiveness of the supply side of the construction market, writes Brian Fallow.

There is a cost to businesses and the economy when innovative thinking and individualism is suppressed, though obviously a balance is required, writes Peter Lyons.

"Few folk understand money, which is logical as it's enormously complex," writes Bob Jones.

A telemarketer who told her supervisor she was going to "smash her" has been awarded $5000 for wrongful dismissal.

The New Zealand dollar climbed more than half a US cent after new Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler gave no indication he's leaning towards cutting rates.

Housing affordability is still a problem and the "housing market is not working properly'', says Finance Minister Bill English.

An apparent absence of economic rationality is not the only reason for questioning the Government's sense of priorities over this issue, writes Bryan Gould.

Avoiding or evading tax used to be socially acceptable, or at least not socially unacceptable. Bernard Hickey looks at how artful these dodgers can be.

Sure, people want a job. But more than that, they want to avoid boredom and take pride in their work, writes Ditia De Boni. "Life is too short to endure a psychotic boss."