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"Analyst Owen McShane " Oooh an expert wrote it, so it MUST be TRUE.  If he's that good (...
mist42nz It's time to take the risks in China seriously
"Maybe our economy and the global economy will never get back to "normal". Bernard in the...
Wolly 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
Aye, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.  I can see those things happening. But....
mist42nz Budget 2012 reactions
If 40story turbines are in a res zone. Then the problem is not with the generation company. It's with...
mist42nz 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
CHRISTCHURCH COUNCIL NEEDS BIG SORT OUT - FAST   The Press article "Council rules out need for sell...
Hugh Pavletich Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Yes...unless it is rental income given how rental receipts are defined in the Act. As an aside this is why...
speckles 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
Well mist42nz, Glaxo didn't plan to stick 40 story turbines right over residential property and for those...
OMG 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
I only have the specifics for the ones setup by myself (as assistant) and the guy in charge (Chris, who did...
mist42nz 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
IRD say so. and the law backs them up. It's illegal to set up a company with a constant loss projection...
mist42nz 'Next 5-10 years make or break for NZ'
And that is precisely the reason we need Gareth and co, or anyone else in the media industry to speak up,...
ctnz What covered bonds mean for ma and pa

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StoryFriday'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 Bernard Hickey442 hours 54 min ago
StoryThursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Bond investors flee Southern Europe to invest in 0% interest German bunds; Germany as vays of making Greece stay in zee euro; Chinese coal imports collapse; Dilbert Bernard Hickey381 day 19 hours ago
StoryFinance Minister English welcomes jump in investor confidence for rental property if it means more house building; Doesn't see bubble Alex Tarrant303 days 19 hours ago
StoryKey won't budge on Super at 65 stance even if European situation deteriorates to point where govt needs to look at policy changes Alex Tarrant134 days 19 hours ago
StoryExodus of Kiwis to Australia hits a record 53,462 or 146 a day in the year to end of April; Short term Euro-visitor numbers slump BusinessDesk754 days 23 hours ago
StoryPM Key says NZ Government would delay move to surplus beyond 2014/15 and borrow more if Euro crisis worsens considerably Alex Tarrant195 days 9 hours ago
StoryBusinessDesk: Dairy product prices drop to new 3-year low in Fonterra’s GDT auction BusinessDesk1595 days 11 hours ago
StoryFriday'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 Bernard Hickey1196 days 12 min ago
StoryGovt's 'Gateway' affordable housing scheme scrapped; Funding to go to community organisations; Sections too valuable, Heatley says Alex Tarrant206 days 1 hour ago
StoryConstruction companies being forced to build identical houses differently to meet the divergent demands of different council inspectors and their councils Alex Tarrant381 week 2 days ago
StoryRisk of IMF calling on NZ$1.3 bln loan from NZ govt to help with Euro crisis rising, as rumours swirl of Italian bailout too big for the IMF's coffers Alex Tarrant821 week 2 days ago
StoryOpinion: Olly Newland says building reasonably priced housing is a dying business, strangled by regulation. Your view? Olly Newland2791 week 2 days ago
StoryWednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Der Spiegel argues for 'Grexit'; How Greece might default; China may have purged internal security boss Zhou Yongkang; How US, America (and NZ?) are turning Japanese; Dilbert Bernard Hickey221 week 2 days ago
StoryReadymix concrete data shows most regions with weak construction sectors David Chaston21 week 2 days ago
StoryKey takes aim at hostile, aggressive and antagonistic media, but not worried about it; Highlights 'tabloid and sensationalist' NZ Herald Alex Tarrant901 week 3 days ago
StoryTuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: What a Greek exit from the euro might look like; Germany's lethal bluffing over Greece; 'Obama the Great Deceiver'; George Lucas hits back at his snooty neighbours; 'Please can we default too?'; Dilbert Bernard Hickey181 week 3 days ago
StoryMonday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hard landing looks more likely in China; Greece to run out of cash within weeks; A flying shopping trolley; China's banks built on quicksand'; Dilbert Bernard Hickey381 week 4 days ago
Story90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ drops to 77.7 USc as Euro fears return with a vengeance; Open talk of 'Grexit' riles Eurostoxx and Italian/Spanish bonds; Dow down 1% Bernard Hickey291 week 4 days ago
Story90 seconds at 9 am: Australia cuts taxes and cuts spending; Greek political turmoil; stocks and commodities fall; NZD down; Sendak dead David Chaston261 week 4 days ago
StoryCredit Agricole: Chronology of a local debt issue by a foreign bank out of left field Gareth Vaughan311 week 5 days ago
StoryFriday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: China's property developers doubled their debts; Higher inflation targets debated in Germany and America; JP Morgan's Too Big to Fail Whale; Clarke and Dawe Bernard Hickey241 week 6 days ago
StoryRoost Mortgage Brokers Home Loan Affordability report shows affordability slides in Auckland but flat elsewhere David Chaston52 weeks 3 days ago
StoryMonday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: European voters 'as mad as hell' with the bond market vigilantes and their political mates; Australia 'set for the mother of all hard landings'; A homeless generation; Sacha Baron Cohen; Dilbert Bernard Hickey252 weeks 4 days ago
StoryFriday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Another mess in European banking; Germans pay 75 cents a litre for milk; Aussie economy snaps; Hugh Hendry talks; Chinese house prices falling; Clarke and Dawe Bernard Hickey682 weeks 6 days ago
Story90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ slides under 80 USc to lowest since Jan 17 on global growth fear; US and Australian services sectors weak Bernard Hickey322 weeks 6 days ago