A review of things you need to know before you go home on Monday; mortgage rate cuts, booming used import sales, employees confident (but not some ANZ staff), NZD falls on Sri Lankan ban

You are forgetting the US has 'positive credit scores' which allow lenders to identify borrowers with good credit risks. NZ hasn't had these until very recently and although we are getting them, it will take a while for the resulting competitive pressure to work its way through the personal loan market. Lenders here will increasingly target those with a good credit score by offering lower rates. (And the reverse for those that don't.)

tolerant? no.

stuck in barrel surrounded by fishermen... yes

Agree.

regards

He did make statements to the effect that he had prepared.

Which backfired terribly, when ordinary voters like me got irritated by what was so evidently a smear campaign

Are you implying the current batch of Nat supporters would have voted otherwise if Hager had not appeared armed with the disclosures, amongst others, concerning a certain previous National cabinet minister?  A situation reinforced by the PM's cabinet choices today.

We shall see about that, if honest inquires as should happen, do happen.

Has anything Hager written been challenged in court? no it has not because its looks like its fact, otherwise libel/slander cases would now be pending.

You are not an ordainary voter by any stretch of the imagination. 

Did Hager's book have an effect? yes, it looks like Crazy Colin and WP gained %s over it.  Meanwhile ppl ran from the prospects of a loony left Govn.

Thank Cunliffe and Laila for doing such a great job of frightening voters into Nats arms.

regards

Boatman, you write "dishonest". Let's get this clear, when Slater went to court (and I would note his case has collapsed leaving him on the hook) under a Privacy tort to suppress the emails, part of doing that was affirming that the contents were true. So no dishonesty on Hager's part.

So we have Slater confirming in court that he was in a conspiracy with a Minister of the Crown to undermine the Serious Fraud Office in a current investigation (though that was not one of Rawshark's emails), and the Police are raiding the person who reported it not (for example) Slater or seizing all of Collin's computer equipment.

I expect Hager is going have to discard all his equipment when returned anyway, because if you are an investigative journalist working on the Security Services overstepping the law, you kind of have to assume your computer etc will be compromised in the many weeks the Government is holding it.

It's always good to see just how fragile our modern society is.  

Businesses should take responsibility to have some sort of backup system.

Re the Crosby lawsuit et al: The Nats seem to have adopted the USA Replublican playbook.  They might even have adopted the tactic of hiring paid professional trolls.  Of course, none of those would appear here.

C'mon , Hager the victim ? Get real , his use of the stolen documents to create conjecture and cast aspersions on the ruling party weeks before the election , was a calculated plan , as was the daily release of one e-mail at a time

Its now backfired on him .

Surely he knew there would be consequences for this type of lawlessness ?

His sudden claim of victimhood is a joke .

He MUST be prosecuted if found to be complicit in this .