Fonterra’s payout to dairy farmers could exceed $6 a kilo of milk solids if current trends continue.

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Matthew Hooton on implications of the imminent Trump administration

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The first and toughest job in policy making is determining the problem. My experience is ministers and bureaucrats look bewildered when they’re asked what problem they’re trying to fix. They then blurt meaningless claptrap.

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One outcome of the US presidential election already cemented in is the negative future impact on international free-trade treaties.

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Nevil Gibson unveils a new Asia-bound budget airline in his Carry On round up of travel news

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If there were a club for policy wonks, Gareth Morgan would be its president, treasurer, secretary and social events convenor.

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"We’ve always suspected the role of ever-falling interest rates and ever-rising housing costs in redistributing wealth and widening inequality but the release this week by Statistics New Zealand of new Household Living Costs Indices sealed the issue with an exclamation point."

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The National Party’s plan to get more young people into work has found favour with NBR readers who rate its plan above Labour’s.

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The US has had Obamacare for the last six years and now we are going to have Trumpcare, which some would assert is an oxymoron.

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Z Energy sees further growth in coffee, food and other non-fuel sales after lifting gross margin in that area by 10% in the six months ended September.

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