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Grocery prices push food bills higher in April

Latest figures from StatsNZ show prices up significantly on last year.

Housing market: 'Demand has weakened, prices are falling': REINZ

Affordability, uncertainty and changing financial conditions cited as reasons.

US inflation stays at 40-year high

CPI increase of 8.3 per cent in April includes rise in core inflation

First-home buyers under pressure as activity falls to 2014 levels

New data out on buyers and values shows economic conditions taking effect.

Liam Dann: Crash, slump, correction or bust? Call it what you want, it is happening

All the market noise is just the sound of central banks sucking cash out of the economy.

The investigators who found a way to make their values pay

Meet Pathfinder Labs - where work means making a living out of your core values.

Westpac forecasts house prices to fall 15% in two years

Westpac takes far more bearish stand than it had previously.

Q&A: How is unemployment measured? How accurate is it?

Stats NZ's unemployment figure sometimes differs from benefit figures.

Wage growth soars as unemployment holds steady at record low

Stats NZ data shows the official unemployment rate has held steady at 3.2 per cent.

Sasha Borissenko: 'Work to rule' clause provoking strike action

OPINION: The health system was already under pressure well before the pandemic.

How remote work helped tech companies outside Silicon Valley grow

New York Times: Remote work made normal by pandemic has altered how companies operate.

Liam Dann: Elon Musk and the return of 'the gilded age'

The gilded age, where billionaires made the rules, was not a great time for workers.

Boss sends 'deranged' email amid mass resignation

The boss of a freight start-up's 'deranged' email has copped flak from social media users.

Stock Takes: Will the sharemarket withstand high inflation?

And Netflix loses 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022.

Matthew Hooton: Govt needs bold moves to head off soaring inflation

OPINION: Grant Robertson has presided over a 40 per cent increase in Govt spending.

Opinion: Fair pay agreement farce rolls on

OPINION: A better name for the FPA Bill would be the Trade Union Privilege Bill.

Cost of living soars: Annual inflation hits 6.9%

Largest movement since the June 1990 quarter.

Editorial: Inflation crunch picking our pockets

OPINION: Our editorial on today's announcement of the CPI for the March 2022 quarter.