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Cliff Brown: "The Trend is your Friend"
Cliff Brown says the New Zealand dollar is often dismissed as a commodity-driven "risky" asset, and in the short term it often behaves that way.

Bernard Hickey: Sickly storm brews over healthcare, pension costs
What will our health system look like in 2060 if we change none of the entitlements or the way they're paid for?

Brian Fallow: Monetary policy needs mates
Brian Falllow ponders what can be done about the high kiwi dollar. And would changing the Reserve Bank's statutory mandate do any good?

Economy grows: Up 0.6pc
The economy is growing faster than many were predicting, with GDP up 0.6 per cent in the three months to June.

Kiwi surges as Fed prepares to print billions
The New Zealand dollar surged to a six-month high against the greenback yesterday.

Biggest problem our over-valued dollar
Bryan Gould says that as job losses reach crisis proportions we have to put up with the 'same old tired and ill-informed assertions to the effect that over-valuation is not the culprit.'