COMMENT: Big parties might accept some NZ First policies - but not a new Reserve Bank Act

Labour should hesitate to change a monetary system that is serving NZ well.

COMMENT: Graeme Wheeler has done a good job in a difficult time for central banks.

Reserve Bank governor is about to step down, but says he has work left to do.

Fed raises the possibility that she may slow the pace of interest rate increases

UK banks are now giving out unsecured consumer loans enthusiastically

COMMENT: This election will be about how we define national success.

Grant Spencer - Reserve Bank governor in waiting - talks debt and risk with Liam Dann.

COMMENT: Auckland's housing boom is over and English will be relieved, writes Liam Dann.

Labour's plan to reform monetary policy is more modest than it looks.

Labour wants the Reserve Bank to consider full employment as well as inflation.

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The Trump slump touched markets overnight that have been running on hope since election.

COMMENT: Donald Trump evidently has a primitive view of international commerce.

COMMENT: In an election year, a useful economic indicator of how Kiwis are feeling is consumer spending.

Greece is under mounting pressure to embark on a new wave of economic reforms, as its international creditors demand extra efforts.

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler will not seek a second term. Here he reflects on his time in the role.

Let's hope that whoever succeeds Graeme Wheeler as Reserve Bank governor next year does as good a job as he has.

It is hard to understand why Finance Minister is wary about giving the Reserve Bank the power it wants to impose an income limit on house mortgage lending.

WATCH: Here's how the pace of technological change is re-shaping the world.

A bombshell hit London this week: Mark Carney, the most powerful man in the British economy, will only be in his job until mid-2019.

The former leader of the UK Conservative Party, has warned the policies of central banks are pumping up stock markets and house prices.

New data tomorrow is expected to show inflation near zero - so why does it feel like the cost of living is rising?

Report shows children born in the 1980s only have half the wealth those born a decade earlier did at the same age - and they are unlikely to catch up.

The Reserve Bank is expected to hold fire from cutting interest rates next week until it can get a better steer on the inflation outlook

Deposit-payers might be asked for 15 per cent more.

A former member of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee is questioning wide-spread expectations that interest rates will remain low.

COMMENT: Lowering cost of money and increasing the quantity of cash has become a tonic for every crisis but it doesn't restore an economy to robust health.

Governor Graeme Wheeler outlines why he doesn't see the need to take a slash and burn approach to interest rates.

A 2016 rate hike from the Fed is still under consideration, as the U.S. economy is close to meeting the central bank's goals.