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Many jobs are precarious, but major steps are being taken to protect the wealthy.

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The inside word on New Zealand's business community.

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.

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.

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.