John Key's decision to weigh in on the debate about taxing of foreign online purchases seemed to come out of left field last week.

Bernard Hickey writes: John Key grappled this week with one of the toughest tasks any modern government has to deal with - how to tax the new economy.

The December quarter 2014 gross domestic product statistics, released this week, show the economy was a top performer last year.

The main negative of KiwiSaver for kids is that the money is tied up until they buy a first home or retire, writes Mary Holm.

Are zombies eating your bank interest? Zombie accounts are the ones that pay low interest rates - sometimes as low as zero.

The ADSL has stopped losing money - due, in part, to savings made from a free chocolate biscuit ban.

Remember inflation? The Reserve Bank estimates the annual inflation rate right now is zero. Zip, zilch, nada, none.

It remains to be seen how, if at all, Fonterra will communicate the performance of its Chinese infant formula investment to farmers and unit holders in its NZX-listed shareholders' fund.

New Zealand has zero affordable housing markets, according to the '11th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey'.

The lesson seems to be, today more than ever, when considering university education: choose carefully if employment is your objective.

Could 2015 go down in history as the year of the boring sharemarket listings?

If my husband and I purchase land using our KiwiSaver funds, can someone else build the house for us to live in or does the title of the house need to be in our names?

Auckland's rapidly expanding economy has prompted the city's biggest private developer to announce $220 million of new work.

Here are 10 tips to save you time and to help you get significantly better results for your written and visual communications.

We get hooked on less-important costs – they loom larger in our minds than they really should.

Almost no one outside his inner circle knows what David Teoh looks like.

Octogenarian billionaire investor says ambitions have no finish line, writes Brian Gaynor.

Collectibles are subject to the laws of supply and demand. They can provide some protection from inflation, but aren't the best hedge around, writes Diana Clement.

CaseLoad's coverage of the stellar career of a dashing celebrity judge was graciously acknowledged recently.

As people turned out to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership last weekend, one of the issues exercising them was "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS).

Leading telecommunications company Spark actively considered becoming the cornerstone sponsor of the new Paul Henry breakfast show, but has pulled out, writes John Drinnan.

If banks wanted to adopt a theme song for KiwiSaver it would have to be the song from Bonanza.

Everything is fine in New Zealand is it not? The country has experienced a great few years. We have ridden the commodity boom and other countries' misfortunes.

After everything New Zealand's infant formula industry has been through over the past few years, the last thing it needed was yesterday's news of the 1080 threat.

Despite it being only March, we've already seen 17 central banks around the world reduce interest rates this year.

NZ won't get the Apple Watch for a while, so if you wanted a gold iPhone, gold MacBook and gold wristwatch immediately, too bad.