Under pressure over rising prices, the government has gone considerably further than the Commerce Commission recommended to spur supermarket competition.
Climate change demands huge and important decisions by central government. Have we learned the right lessons from Think Big? Former energy policy adviser John Boshier's new book, Power Surge, traverses those times.
NZ's carbon price is near the bottom of what the World Bank thinks is needed to meet climate change goals.
Economist Cameron Bagrie worries that the momentum in government spending growth is a juggernaut without brakes.