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Bruce Cotterill: Small business paying the price of the coronavirus fight
Eradication strategy is causing too much pain -- we need to find a new approach.
Michael Cullen: Fighting this virus is harder than crushing a car
While dealing with further outbreaks, we still need to plan for the economic recovery.
Mary Holm: Cut your loan into pieces - is that the answer to the mortgage puzzle?
Is splitting a home loan into instalments a way to beat future interest rate rises?
Fran O'Sullivan: Ardern is the master of spin - but the Govt dropped the ball
Government and National have to offer competing visions for NZ's future.
Comment: Why lockdown restrictions must be less than last time around
We must adapt with the benefit of experience from the initial outbreak.
Matthew Hooton: The only option is to let Covid in
Covid-19 is here to stay. The task now is to learn how to live with it.
Business Insider: Rich-lister's IPO plans, wage subsidy warning, AMP's Blair Vernon
The inside word on New Zealand's business community.
Kate MacNamara: When is the cost of lockdown too high?
COMMENT: The need to understand the Government's calculus is looming larger by the day.
Kate MacNamara: What $640m buys in the Reserve Bank's new budget
Funds are a win for Orr, but it's not clear that NZ will receive the value he claims.
Juha Saarinen: NZ in blast radius of US-China tech war
Everyone loses as tensions ratchet higher.
Comment: Three policy responses needed in Covid battle
Initial policy response has been well handled, but a stepped-up policy focus is required.
There are no easy answers in the low-return era
Financial Times: Current market recovery is not a sign of the sector health.
Roger Partridge: Border sideshow obscures bigger problems
Fixing the border chokehold is not rocket science.
Ranked: Figures show which political party is best for investors
Which side of political spectrum has been friendlier to share investors and homeowners?
Ben Kepes: How sharing the love feeds the circular economy
The Scouts can teach business leaders a thing or two.
Christopher Niesche: Rio Tinto's controversial business move in Australia
COMMENT: The miner's decision to put profit ahead of principle might yet backfire.
Ella Jensen: Embracing tech to reduce the farming footprint
It is time to re-open a nation-wide dialogue on the use of genetic technologies.
Steven Joyce: From fiscal hole to rising debt mountain
The sheer amount of money being firehosed all over the place has got out of hand.
Mary Holm: A trust to guard your money? Not this time
Rules on resthome subsidies mean legal structures no longer offer protection as in past.
Market close: Trump and Rio Tinto news dampens late trading
The S&P/NZX 50 had its biggest fall this week.
Matthew Hooton: Unemployment figures another disaster for National
Unemployment isn't really down to 4 per cent, but it's no good arguing with the ref.
Business Insider: ASB's payroll issues, Mowbray deal sets record, law firms tie the knot
The inside word on New Zealand's business community.
How Boris Johnson lost control
Financial Times: A powerful prime minister means little without a governing purpose.
Kate MacNamara: What's the real cost of staying safe from Covid-19?
Cost benefit analysis finds that level 4 overtime wasn't worth it.
Brian Fallow: People for jobs, jobs for people
Government can ease the pain of losing work, and encourage employers to hire.
Comment: Governments shouldn't pick tourism favourites
Small tourism operators are missing out on millions in taxpayer money handed out by Govt.
Frances Sweetman: Smeltdown in the electricity sector
Sector directors face difficult decisions as excess demand looms to swallow dividends.
Craig Eliffe: NZ faces big tax questions but is targeting the wealthy the answer?
Green Party's proposed wealth tax raises important questions about the taxation system.
Tax and spend - the new economic orthodoxy
Comment: How pandemic may sweep away ideals of low debt and low taxes.