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Matthew Hooton: Why Bloomfield, ministry have lost their hold on Ardern

Prime Minister knows Kiwis won't keep on accepting level 4-style rules.

Brian Fallow: Reserve Bank and Treasury play pass the parcel

RBNZ is buying nearly $1b of bonds a week — what's the result for govt debt?

Why business is turning against the Government's Covid elimination strategy

New Zealand's elimination consensus is starting to fray.

Gary Walker: Where are all the Shovel Ready projects?

The time is now or never.

Covid-19 breach: Why aren't we asking the right questions?

We need a better strategy to keep Covid-19 out of New Zealand.

Roger Partridge: The inconvenient questions over NZ's Covid setback

COMMENT: The New Zealand public deserves answers to some inconvenient questions.

Juha Saarinen: Is Samsung's Note 20 Ultra worth its $2299 price tag?

Samsung has taken a fairly moderate approach with the Note 20 Ultra.

Ian Taylor: The Covid Card - a tool to help the A Team

COMMENT: How many times can we have a $400m per week shutdown?

Matthew Hooton: October 17 choice masterful by Ardern

National must now respond with exciting policy, focused on the next 12 months.

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.

RBNZ shows 'preference' for negative OCR

Central bank could lend direct to retail banks to ensure OCR cuts get to customers.

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.

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?