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Labour's tax plan centre stage for our CEO's
Labour's proposal for a capital gains tax was centre stage at a New Zealand Herald Mood of the Boardroom breakfast in Auckland yesterday.
House sales, prices, fall in June
House sales fell in June from a year earlier, led by properties of $400k or less, indicating the LVR restrictions are curbing demand at the cheaper end of the market.
Property prices, sales fall in May
House sale volumes and prices are dropping, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, which has just released its May sales figures.
'What a total creep': PM's unwise wink?
Australia's PM is feeling widespread anger to his tough Budget first hand - but criticism stepped up a notch when he was caught in a conspiratorial wink yesterday.
Obama promises to override Congress
President Barack Obama is pushing for green reforms and an overhaul of immigration laws in his State of the Union address.
Overcharged for power? Apparently not
Feel you're paying too much for electricity? Not according to a new report, which says consumers never actually paid the full cost of building NZ's power stations.
Don Blair: The Auckland housing debate - regional strategy needed
Creating incentives that provide opportunities within the wider Auckland region can be done if affordable housing and good paying jobs are available, writes Don Blair.
Don Blair: Affordable housing for all? Bad economic policy
As an American, I have firsthand experience of how wrong the push for home ownership can go, writes Don Blair.In New Zealand as in most countries, the housing market is driven by two main variables.
David Mayes: Patchy housing market makes case for tweaks
If house prices start rising faster, it can require lenders to reduce the proportion of the property value they are prepared to lend, writes David Mayes.
Housing seen as biggest risk to NZ economy
Auckland's 'frothy' housing market poses the biggest risk to the economy's strengthening recovery, the Institute of Economic Research says.
China sees investment openings
Finance Minister Bill English says Chinese investors are starting to think about New Zealand again as an investment destination, including for the state-owned enterprises share-float.
Construction lifts manufacturing index
The most timely gauge of manufacturing is the most positive it has been for a year, as a pick-up in construction boosts upstream suppliers.
Jack Tame: C word heard: compromise
The funny thing about an impending economic catastrophe was that no one seemed to care.
Peter Lyons: How we go about inflation
I pity manufacturers in New Zealand. They are the collateral damage of our narrow approach to controlling inflation.
Bryan Gould: NZ swims against exchange rate tide
That dwindling band who continue to deny our economy is being hurt by an overvalued currency will usually - in the face of the indisputable evidence - take refuge as a last resort.
Hickey: Headwinds head off further growth
Just imagine if economic growth wasn't a natural thing. Bernard Hickey looks at the possibilities.
Goal still surplus by 2015
NZ remains focused on the target of getting back into surplus in 2014-15, Finance Minister Bill English says, and we're better off than many other countries.
Dick Smith: Unending growth like cancer
Chasing never-ending business growth is like a form of cancer, says Australian retail icon Dick Smith.
Dick Smith to business - stop chasing growth
Self confessed right wing capitalist Dick Smith says businesses should stop chasing continuous economic growth.
NZ stuck in the days of Muldoon - MFAT adviser
New Zealand's fixation on domestic productivity is too "introspective", says David Skilling.