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'Baby Boomer' credit defaults soar
Baby Boomer lifestyles 'are coming home to roost' as defaults on credit payments rise, a credit information provider says.
Developer brought down by $100m debt
A former NBR Rich List Aucklander says a $100 million debt led to him being declared bankrupt.
IRD warns tycoon - pay $3.5m or face bankruptcy
Property tycoon David Stewart Henderson - the man involved in a celebrity drug ring in 2005 - is being threatened with bankruptcy.
Leaky homes throw up $6bn repair bill
Councils are staring at an estimated $6 billion legal bill to fix the country's leaky homes - with the crushing debt falling on ratepayers.
Snapping at the watchdog
The way Securities Commission chief executive Jane Diplock sees it, New Zealand's investor protection was way behind the rest of the world when she arrived. Since then, she says, there has been significant progress, but we are not there yet
<i>John Armstrong:</i> Gaffes paint Goff in bad light
This has been an especially awful week for Phil Goff.
Goff's jobless man owns other property
An unemployed man used by Labour as an example of someone who would benefit from its dole policy owns properties worth hundreds of thousands.
Goff backtracks on dole call
Phil Goff says his call for the dole to be paid to redundant workers, regardless of their partners' incomes, would be a temporary measure for 'low and middle income' New Zealanders.