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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

23 May 13, 12:31pm, Bernard Hickey
Ireland gives America the finger(s) over Apple's tax shifting; Where is America's creatively destructive jobs growth?; The beginning of the end of QE, or just the end of the beginning? The drive for a 'living wage'; Dilbert

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Updated 22 May 13, 1:02pm, Bernard Hickey
Apple's effective tax rate of 0.06% in Ireland; Just print me a pizza; 'Hallelujah, it's raining Yen!; Solar panel settlement may hike prices; Dilbert

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Updated 21 May 13, 1:28pm, Bernard Hickey
Where are the jobs? It's the economy stupid; Helicopter money for Europe?;  'Don't pull away the punchbowl just yet';  Dilbert

'Be brave & tackle home ownership tax status'

21 May 13, 11:23am, Dave Grimmond
Dave Grimmond says the Government ought to tax the imputed rent benefit we get from home ownership to help us make better savings decisions

Special housing legislation flawed

21 May 13, 12:01pm, David Hargreaves
The Government's proposed housing accord legislation gives it too much centralised power and could have far-reaching consequences

Curbs on foreign housing investment?

20 May 13, 11:36am, David Hargreaves
Foreign investment in New Zealand houses could become an election issue, with the Greens re-iterating interest in applying some sort of curbs

Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

20 May 13, 9:53am, Bernard Hickey
OECD reckons NZ's GFC was as bad as Greece's; Drums beating for limits on non-resident purchases of NZ homes; NZ's scandalous workplace safety; Dilbert

To the NZ media: an F

19 May 13, 10:37am, Guest
Murray Grimwood serves up his best shots at the media on the way they report 'growth' - does he convince you?

Auckland's housing Hail Mary pass

19 May 13, 9:08am, Bernard Hickey
The Auckland Accord's plan to build 39,000 houses in 3 years isn't credible without massive changes for builders, financiers & home buyers

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

17 May 13, 2:12pm, Bernard Hickey
Canada's housing bubble beginning to leak after high LVR limits imposed; How Canadians avoid those rules; Low interest rates keep zombies alive; Peter Thiel and Bitcoin; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert
17 May 13, 2:12pm Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
16 May 13, 10:42am Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
15 May 13, 1:22pm Policy is at the root of our housing problems
15 May 13, 10:28am Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
14 May 13, 1:41pm Tax distortions and burden
14 May 13, 10:08am Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
13 May 13, 10:45am Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
13 May 13, 8:33am Auckland housing plan: Is there more?
12 May 13, 8:02am Forever blowing bubbles
10 May 13, 1:07pm Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
09 May 13, 10:53am Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
09 May 13, 10:34am A Mighty flop
09 May 13, 8:28am Alternating currents
08 May 13, 12:07pm Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
07 May 13, 12:11pm 'The great bank bubble of 2013'
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