Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

America's US$7 trln growth gap; NZ's Companies Office system used yet again to commit fraud; A bond exodus from Southern Europe; Adult nappy sales surpass kids' nappy sales in Japan; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert

It's time to take the risks in China seriously

Rodney Dickens thinks the risk of a hard landing in China is real this year. Your view?

Why Fonterra's TAF rebel should be heard

Alex Tarrant thinks Parliament's Primary Production Committee needs to urgently call back ex-Fonterra Shareholders' Council chair, who resigned over TAF concerns

Bill's ChCh CHA budget

Budget 2012 is a steady as she goes budget that relies on growth and a bit of tweaking to return to surplus, but doesn't shift NZ's growth track

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Bond investors flee Southern Europe to invest in 0% interest German bunds; Germany has see vays of making zee Greece stay in zee euro; Chinese coal imports collapse; Dilbert

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Analysing the Greens/BERL critique; Better Life Index; 'It's here and it's unclear'; Decline; Magic; bloopers; Dilbert

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Why rocket scientists are now algo traders; Is Facebook 2012's Lastminute.com?; European bank stress; Capitalism on trial; Dilbert

'Aggressive bank lending rates won't last long'

Roger J Kerr questions whether local moneymarkets are sending correct signals on future rate moves. Your view?

Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Stockpiles mount in slowing Chinese economy; China's Red Nobility of wealthy 'Princelings'; The amazing Bill Yan; CEOs trust communists most; Dilbert

Thousands get lower rates; what now?

Bernard Hickey says you should use the 'savings' from lower mortgage interest rates to repay your loan faster. Your view?

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Markets expecting 'large scale intervention' to ward off 'Grexit' meltdown; 'Apocalypse fairly soon'; A 'Grexit would doom the euro'; Blue Men drum Donna Summer's 'I feel love'; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

NZ judged too easy on money launderers by EU; China's housing market in full reverse; Chinese state bank lending collapses; 'Grexit' seen as 'unthinkable, apocalyptic and Armadeddon-like'; A 12 year old Social Crediter; Dilbert

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Der Spiegel argues for 'Grexit'; How Greece might default; China may have purged internal security boss Zhou Yongkang; How UK, America (and NZ?) are turning Japanese; Dilbert

Can retailers adjust fast enough to survive?

Both store-centric retailers and goverments need to accept consumers are pushing sales online

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

What a Greek exit from the euro might look like; Germany's lethal bluffing over Greece; 'Obama the Great Deceiver'; George Lucas hits back at his snooty neighbours; 'Please can we default too?'; Dilbert

Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Hard landing looks more likely in China; Greece to run out of cash within weeks; A flying shopping trolley; China's banks 'built on quicksand'; Dilbert

'Fix now before rates rise,' says Kerr

Roger J Kerr reckons the US is recovering and borrowers should look to fix while rates are so low. Your view?

Bully your banker

Bernard Hickey says to mortgage borrowers: Don't pay the asking rate. Go straight to your banker and demand a lower rate

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

The amazing Beppe Grillo; Chinese political turmoil deepens; Europe's slow moving train-wreck; Why Facebook dumped the Vampire Squid; Dilbert

SMEs need to think bigger

Terry McLaughlin says our SMEs need to get out out their comfort zones, grow, and contribute more to NZ's economic growth. Your view?

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Modern Monetary Theory's 'guaranteed job' goes mainstream at CNBC; Chinese pawn brokers doubling property lending every two years; Europe's zombie banks;

'SkyCity deal sends wrong message'

Negotiations for an Auckland convention centre between the Government and SkyCity set a dangerous precedent, says John Carran. You agree?

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Asian NZers and women dominate Barfoots top agents list ; A depressing Golden Dawn in Greece; 'Both governments and central banks should print money and then swap it'; Dilbert

How democracies default on their debts

In the wake of voter revolts in Europe, Bernard Hickey looks at how and why democracies might default on their debts

It's Hughes v Foss & I'm with Hughes

Opinion: Mind the gap, the regulatory one. Why we need regulation of KiwiSaver providers' governance, related party transactions and audits