Price caps and subsidies make for easy campaign promises, but they do not make anything cheaper to produce. The NZ Initiative ...

Investors could have priced a clean fight between nine-month and three-month repayment rules. What they cannot price is a ...

Inflation fell to 3.7% on the same day TVNZ staff voted to walk out over a 2.5% offer. That timing tells every employer in ...

The Greens want voters to judge government debt by what it buys, not by whether it breaks a target. It is a smarter argument ...

The Commerce Commission has capped interchange on Visa and Mastercard commercial credit cards, promising businesses a $40 ...

A US expert says New Zealand is relatively well placed to ride out the final Trump years. That holds only if the next ...

Hurunui has 286 bridges and about 9,000 ratepayers to pay for them. A 2-4% rates cap does not change that arithmetic. It only decides which bridges quietly fall off the list.

A central Dunedin Japanese restaurant could lose its liquor licence after almost two decades without a problem. For every small hospitality owner, the uncomfortable lesson is that the licensing system ...

For five years, New Zealand's stock exchange couldn't land a single genuine new float. A solar developer with 10,000 fresh shareholders has broken the drought, and every founder weighing private ...

ACT is selling tax-free compounding as a reward for saving. New modelling shows it is mostly a reward for already having saved, paid for by the half of members with less than $20,000 in the bank.

Two flaws that sat unnoticed in PHP for up to 20 years were turned into working exploits by AI in about a week. Governments pulled sites offline within hours. Most small businesses don't even know who ...

New Zealand's top executives now rank election policy uncertainty above fuel costs, cyber attacks and infrastructure as their biggest domestic worry. The fear isn't who wins on 7 November, it's what ...