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The Spinoff
When the borders closed in March 2021, immigrants who were cut off from their families never imagined they'd still be waiting to be reunited more than a year later. Now many are at their breaking point, they tell Branko Marcetic. Despite all the worries that had driven Johan and Sumari Steyn to l
RNZ
Vets say a nationwide shortage of staff, drought and uncertainty due to Covid-19 is pushing them to a breaking point.
Newsroom
Amid all the noisy talk of constraints on LVRs, DTIs and interest-only loans, the Reserve Bank has quietly floated the possibility of wielding a fourth tool: increasing the capital requirements for banks to lend against houses.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Bringing The Past Into The Present: For the proposed solutions of those promoting a Tiriti -based constitution of Aotearoa to work, the who...
The University of Canterbury
In a new article on The Conversation, Associate Professor Laura Meriluoto explains that the underlying productivity of the economy could be ...
Newshub
The number of borrowers in financial hardship reached 11,900 in April.
Stuff
Trade Me's latest rental price index appears to show a slowing market as more renters stay put ahead of the winter months.
www.waikato.ac.nz
With the government facing a serious backlash over its public sector wage freeze policy, that sound you hear could be the ghost of Rob Muldoon chuckling.
Stuff
National security officials say there is a “very high” risk of a serious terrorist attack in the coming years, according to a previously classified report.
Stuff
OPINION: In Auckland the council can only borrow three times its income yet its voters are borrowing seven times their average income to buy a house.
Newshub
The latest Quotable Value figures, out Monday, show the average value nationwide is now $913,209.
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The national average value was $913,209, representing a year-on-year increase of 21.4 percent.
Stuff
OPINION: What is different about debating these difficult issues now is that they are increasingly understood in the context of our colonial past.
Newsroom
Two global tax measures working their way through the OECD could be the spur to a wider reform of taxation internationally to counter climate change and inequality, writes Rod Oram
Stuff
Moves to tackle New Zealand’s housing supply problem won’t show results right away, but experts say the supply-demand equation will improve - eventually.
Stuff
Hydrologist Earl Bardsley believes Lake Onslow may remain the only viable plan to cope with the threat of more 'dry year' power crises.
Newshub
Bryce Edwards looks at the the public sector worker backlash against Labour.
NZ Herald
Auckland is in a building boom and we reveal which suburbs have the most new homes.
Māori Television
It is not the first time a hapū have turned to crowd-funding methods in an attempt to raise funds to buy back lands of historical significance.
An Oscar Wilde play famously described a cynic as âsomeone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothingâ. A quip thatâs droll on stage loses its humour when it spreads too far into real life. Even Mark Carney thinks our obsession with market prices has gone too far. Fortunately, he is working on some solutions.
The Spinoff
The long-term economic value of cutting child poverty is clear. So why won't Treasury advise the government to spend on welfare, instead of cutting debt and filling Super Fund coffers? In the latest episode of When the Facts Change, Bernard Hickey talks to Girol Karacaoglu, head of the school
The Conversation
New Zealand's financial system is sound but still vulnerable, according to the Reserve Bank. But without better evidence there's too much room for fear-mongering and confusion.
The Spinoff
By freezing most state sector wages, cutting $926m of Covid spending plans and strangling transport projects, Labour is pivoting to budget austerity and public debt reduction too soon after a crisis, argues Bernard Hickey. This story was originally published in Bernard Hickey’s email newsletter
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
'He iwi tahi tātou'? Should Maori poverty be addressed as a manifestation of the economic and social injustices inherent in free-market cap...
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The central bank is worried about how much debt people are getting into.
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