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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.
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Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: Can this election season get any more gob-smacking?
The short answer is: yes. Parliament and politics are and always have been hotbeds of stolen secrets, alcohol abuse, high stress, sexual indiscretion and gossip - endless, unverifiable, salacious gossip.
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David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Half-time results: growth and value look to settle scores
Year-to-date, it’s been a half of two quarters.The latest investment survey from consultancy firm Melville Jessup Weaver (MJW) – a key point of reference for the New Zealand funds management industry – shows just how skew-whiff markets have been over the first six months of the a...
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Victoria Young: VICTORIA YOUNG: Business debt hibernation at a standstill
A Google search of “business debt hibernation NZ” will return more than 50 articles from different professional services firms advising how to use it.In one of these, law firm DLA Piper writes, “while we remain interested to see how the practical use of the BDH regime plays out i...
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Kerry McDonald: KERRY MCDONALD: Tiwai - there has never been an electricity subsidy
Economist and former Comalco general manager Kerry McDonald says the Tiwai Point smelter has never had a subsidised power supply and its closure is unlikely to benefit consumers.Independent studies show that the Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter is one of New Zealand’s most successfu...
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