On the Money: Up the Crypto Wahs, Garry Moore gets dumped, Oliver Hartwich, Isuru Fernando, Woke banks, and more

The big four debate woke while others debate NZ cliches. (Image: NZME/Supplied/Jacques Steenkamp)

Sat, 18 Oct 2025

On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.The death this week of former Prime Minister Jim Bolger has elicited an outpouring of respect that he would have appreciated but rarely experienced during his public life.Instead, journalists of a certain age found themselves reminiscing about every Bolger-ism they could think of.A republican by virtue of Irish heritage and with a physiognomy that was a little potato-esque, it was perhaps inevitable that the plane Bolger flew...

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