Economy
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A strange year in data: five defining charts
We started living with covid, moved to the right politically and got paid more – but used most of the increase to buy food.
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Finance
Govt business loan guarantee scheme not a great success
Lenders criticised the scheme as having been written “by and for lawyers”, panning the rules as confusing and onerous.
Markets
Kiwibank predicts weaker kiwi
Is the recent softening in the US dollar a blip or a shift that will be sustained?
Environment
Funding cuts: when good pines could go wild
"Unmanaged" forestry carbon sinks could worsen New Zealand's wilding pine problem.
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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