Opinion

Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
Time to show local government the ‘rabbit’
Policy

Pattrick Smellie: Time to show local government the ‘rabbit’

Is today the day that the government hopes to show local government leaders why the hotly contested three waters reforms will be worth their while?

Pattrick Smellie 15 Jul 2021
The logical endgame for Microsoft Windows
Technology

Peter Griffin: The logical endgame for Microsoft Windows

For decades, the core of Microsoft’s business has involved physically getting its operating system onto billions of computers around the world.

Peter Griffin 15 Jul 2021
Small endings: why I paid $15 for ‘The AMP’
Finance

David Chaplin: Small endings: why I paid $15 for ‘The AMP’

The once mighty AMP has met one of the challenges of the brash American who took it public in 1998. It is now definitely behaving like a smaller organisation.

David Chaplin 14 Jul 2021
Stubbornly high house prices keep ratcheting north

Jenny Ruth: Stubbornly high house prices keep ratcheting north

Government and Reserve Bank measures appear to have done little to cool the housing market so maybe it's time to see what higher interest rates can achieve.

Jenny Ruth 13 Jul 2021