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Bernard Hickey: Dollar creates dire straits for exporters
Thinking of buying a flat-screen television? Wait a bit, because our currency is set to become more powerful for importers and disastrous for exporters.
Bernard Hickey: Bollard can retire with head held high
Bernard Hickey gives his verdict on Alan Bollard's 10 years as Reserve Bank Governor and wishes him well for good job (mostly) well done
Bernard Hickey: Flex trading muscle for currency's sake
Prime Minister John Key needs to embrace his inner trader for the sake of the country, says Bernard Hickey.
Bernard Hickey: Old savers drag on investment
New Zealanders and their fund managers can't seem to stomach investing in big, hairy, risky long-term privately funded infrastructure projects.
Bernard Hickey: Smug line on dodgy inflation policy
Inflation targeting, a monetary policy framework pioneered in New Zealand, is now widely discredited.
Bernard Hickey: How will NZ break its investment drought?
How NZ will break its investment drought when households and businesses are hoarding cash. Should govt do it?
Bernard Hickey: Trim debt load with the savings we make for you
Reserve Bank figures show household debt, which is 94 per cent mortgages, is still 141.7 per cent of disposable income.
Big banks keep cutting interest rates
BNZ has cut a key mortgage rate this morning, following rate cutting by other banks on Saturday morning.