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Bernard is a senior contributing editor of interest.co.nz. Until September 30, 2012 he was the managing editor. He worked for 18 years for Reuters, the FT Group and Fairfax as a financial journalist and editor.
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Poll shows opposition to LVR limits

Horizon poll shows almost 40% oppose limits on loan to value ratios over 80%, but almost as many support such limits; older, richer buyers most worried

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

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

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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

S&P reduces Kiwibank's rating outlook

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S&P says 1 in 3 chance it will cut in Kiwibank's A+ rating in next 3 years as NZ's economic risks rise; NZ Post says disappointed with rating move; S&P also eyeing how supportive NZ Govt is of struggling NZ Post

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

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Where are the jobs? It's the economy stupid; Helicopter money for Europe?;  'Don't pull away the punchbowl just yet';  Dilbert

Key sees haircuts for Solid Energy's banks

PM Key downbeat on 'broken' Solid Energy's future after KordaMentha report arrives; says it probably has no equity and he expects banks will have to take haircuts on NZ$389 mln of debt

Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

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

Auckland's housing Hail Mary pass

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

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

S&P may cut TSB, Co-op, Heartland ratings

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S&P warns it may cut credit ratings of TSB Bank, Co-op Bank, Heartland Bank and 5 credit unions by 1 or 2 notches; cites NZ's 'economic vulnerabilities' and risk of housing slump 

Small budget surplus in 2014/15

NZ Govt forecasts NZ$75 mln surplus in 2014/15; Macro-prudential tools deal signed; NZSF contributions delayed 2 yrs; Central govt may directly issue housing consents

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Why doubling Japan's money supply won't fix its demographic drag on inflation and growth; How economies can grow old with dignity; Target 3% unemployment; Time-lapsed NZ; Dilbert

Purse strings loosened in Budget 2013

Bill English set to deliver budget with around NZ$800 million of discretionary net new spending as firmer economy gives Govt more leeway 18 mths before election; Meridian float?

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

IMF gives NZ qualified tick; Cicada farming for protein?; Rounding up the herd with drones?; Did the Internet kill the Middle Class; Strolling along the Thames in China; Dilbert

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Why the developed world will have to find new ways to employ people on high wages; Push your car dealer hard for lower prices; 'Australia's housing bubble the world's biggest'; Dilbert

Bernard's property buying tool kit

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Bernard Hickey lays out his internet tool kit for buying property, including useful links to mortgage and interest rate calculators, and property value sites 

Sky City Convention deal agreed

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Govt concedes 230 more pokie machines and license extention to 2048 to get Sky City to build NZ$402 mln convention centre; Key says 'it's a day of celebration for Auckland'

Forever blowing bubbles

Bernard Hickey reckons rising house prices can push higher only as long as interest rates stay low, but the music will stop when interest rates rise

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

 How China's growth could slow to 3%; Why is youth unemployment so high globally; 'It was a data regularity until it wasn't';  Clarke and Dawe on Joe Hockey's 'preventer'; Dilbert

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Why Europe's strategy requires exports to Mars; The heartbreaking detail behind China's one child policy; America's bee population slumps; How to kill Zombie banks; Dilbert