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Adrian Orr resigned this week and we're still not quite sure why. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
On the Money is our weekly newsletter of general frippery from the worlds of Business and Government, and in a week when people in both spheres have either been sacked or sacked themselves we’ve renamed it in memoriam of one of those high-profile departures.On The Money was enjoying a coffee with KiwiBank chief economist Jarrod Kerr on Wednesday when Kerr’s phone started buzzing, and continued buzzing for the whole time. Impressively, Kerr managed to resist the draw of his device, but it turned out all those calls were people t...

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