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Mark Tanner notes that China has been beavering away for years coming up with innovative ideas that change the way people live, consume and market, and building an innovation culture that is putting its copycat years behind it
Anthony Grant explores the issues around the ignorance of many trustees of their duties, especially their duty to act impartially, and the need for trust deeds to have provisions enabling trustees who develop dementia to be removed and replaced
Paola Subacchi cautions against efforts to limit multilateral cooperation to countries with shared values and principles
More investors bought gold than cryptos in 2021. We are in another sharp retreating phase for cryptos just as inflation jumps. Louise Street says gold is doing its job as a safe-haven, and exhibiting its inflation hedging qualities
Carolyn Hill looks at whose ‘identity’ we are preserving in Auckland’s special character housing areas
Rabobank forecasts $9kg/ms farmgate milk price for new season – tells farmers to prepare for a bumpy ride ahead
Tim Hazledine's review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Michael Jacobs & Xhulia Likaj explains why, on its 50th anniversary, the Club of Rome's landmark report is more relevant than ever
Zhang Jun defends the goals and principles underpinning a strategy that has led to a six-week lockdown in Shanghai
Buddle Findlay's Tony Wilkinson, Fiona Heiford & Maria Clezy highlight problems with NZ's ad hoc capital gains tax rules, and the unlevel playing field this causes
As Australia's prime minister Scott Morrison seeks reelection, Michelle Grattan looks at what makes him tick
Air of compromise: NZ’s Emissions Reduction Plan reveals a climate budget that’s long on planning, short on strategy
If the polls are right, he may soon be the next Australian prime minister. So who is Anthony Albanese?
How New Zealand could become a world leader in decarbonisation using forestry and geothermal technology
Pinelopi Goldberg touts an effective way for a high-tariff country like the US to do more to reduce costs for consumers. "Openness" and "globalisation" may have fallen out of political favour, but free trade remains sound economic policy
China’s COVID crisis and the dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak
Why the budget should treat public health like transport – vital infrastructure with long-term economic benefits
Struggling to manage the pandemic, China is caught in a tough spot, reports Mark Tanner. Although there is substantial infrastructure stimulus, there will also be further consumer-specific policies to keep spending ticking along
In their second edition of The Vault, ANZ commodity strategists think heightened geopolitical risks will drive investor demand for gold, and make it a good hedge against inflation despite a strong USD
James K. Galbraith thinks Chairman Jerome Powell will get credit for a decline in US inflation that would have happened anyway
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James Shaw details first three emissions budgets in zero carbon push, says Emissions Reduction Plan to be released May 16
Koichi Hamada frames an answer to the question, "When does inflation stop?" by examining the various mechanisms that have pushed up consumer price indices
Chief Executive Jo Hendy sets out the Climate Change Commission’s expectations for the Government’s first Emissions Reduction Plan
Milford Asset Management's Felix Fok is cautious about China from an investment perspective given the lack of a political off-ramp to change tack on fighting Omicron
With seas rising and storms surging, who will pay for New Zealand’s most vulnerable coastal properties?