Young Guns: Rising stars of business Xero’s NZ sales director Ben Richmond talks to Holly Ryan.

With pressure on land, Auckland Council’s new study shows a “gap” in housing stock: more suburban terraced housing, townhouses and apartments are needed.

This could be the next defining moment for New Zealand. Are we doing enough to ensure it happens?

"New Zealanders have a poisonous obsession with the quarter-acre dream" - Jack Tame opens fire on the housing crisis

"From the anger and the emotion, the rage between voters on either wide - it's clear the economic consequences of this decision are only one challenge facing Greek society in the coming weeks."

Mike takes on the Lunchbox Police, and questions how far the state should be allowed to go in keeping us healthy.

Today on Mike's Minute - Mike Hosking talks about the recent outburst from a student about the education system.

Liam Dann talks Financial Markets Authority chief executive Rob Everett about how the industry is coping with new regulation and how he would like to see it respond to the issues raised by the Milford Asset Management Settlement.

See this Rocket Lab- supplied video showing its plans for a new launch pad site it wants to build at Birdling's Flat near Canterbury.

Mike discusses the financial crisis - and financial ruin - currently facing Greece and the possibility of their exit from the Eurozone.

Watch as four new, million dollar homes are lifted into place on a Devonport site over just one weekend.

Watch this aerial view of four new, million dollar homes are lifted into place on a Devonport site over just one weekend.

Mike Hosking discusses the decision to strip Family First of charitable status, and also looks into Greenpeace and Sanitarium.

Think of global mode like this... you're at a rugby game and rather than paying for tickets, you've payed the guy who's cut a hole in the fence so you can sneak in. How is that legal?

Business owners, office workers and volunteers from various organisations, were allowed to enter into the 'Red Zone' of downtown Wanganui to inspect their property, retrieve important items and document the damage before the lengthy clean up process. Source: Mark Seconi/Youtube

In today's Mike's Minute - Taking on more refugees isn't the answer.

Today on Mike's Minute - Electing people to run hospitals is ridiculously fraught.

The bosses of New Zealand's biggest companies enjoyed an average pay rise of 10 per cent last year, their biggest bump since 2010. The increase for those at the top dwarfs the 3 per cent of growth for the average wage and salary earner in the year to June 2014.

In Germany near Leipzig, 120 electric i-cars a day are rolling off BMW's production line to meet hot demand around the world. Video supplied by BMW.

Boeing’s expert crew rehearse the 787-9 Dreamliner flying display that will be performed at the 2015 Paris Air Show. Source: Boeing/Youtube

The Reserve Bank cut the benchmark rate a quarter-point and signalled more may be on the way as the dairy sector's weak outlook weighed on the nation's terms of trade and threatened to delay an increase in inflation from its near-zero level. New Zealand Herald's Economics Editor, Brian Fallow, analyses the decision. The New Zealand dollar tumbled. Governor Graeme Wheeler lowered the official cash rate to 3.25 percent, in a closely watched decision where markets were largely split on whether he would cut rates now or later, saying a more pronounced slump in export prices than expected and the prospect of waning consumer demand on increasing petrol prices threatened to keep a lid on already low inflation.

The Reserve Bank has this morning cut the benchmark rate a quarter-point and signalled more may be on the way as the dairy sector's weak outlook weighed on the nation's terms of trade and threatened to delay an increase in inflation from its near-zero level. The New Zealand dollar dropped almost a cent.

Today on Mike's Minute: It's not as simple as forcing landlords to insulate homes.

Apple declared war on Spotify, Tidal and Pandora, as it unveiled its new music streaming service. Apple Music, available to users of iPhones and iPads on June 30 in 100 countries, includes a radio station with personalized playlists and a choice from millions of songs on demand. Tim Cook described Apple's new service as "the next chapter in music". It will include Beats 1, a 24-hour radio station featuring Kiwi DJ and former Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe. The company is billing it as "all the ways you love music in one place". Source: Apple/Youtube

Kiwifruit exporter Zespri has just announced a marketing partnership with McDonald's in Mexico. For this month, every children's 'Happy Meal' sold will contain a kiwifruit.

Today on Mike's Minute - Is mental health the wrong place to start with social bonds?

Sick of filling their office rubbish bin with used sushi containers, a group of Auckland entrepreneurs have designed a reusable, collapsible sushi container.

As with many big jobs, this one started out small. Auckland’s Mitchell & Stout Architects was only initially asked to upgrade Titirangi’s historic ex-hotel Lopdell House, expanding its existing art gallery and redesigning its basement theatre. Work was really planned to focus on a single building. But that would never have worked.

Today on Mike's Minute - The Labour and Greens arguing you can't possibly find work until your child is 5 is so condescending it's embarrassing

John Key gave a post-Budget address at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle function in Auckland, addressing questions about benefit increases. He says the increases were lost on protesters outside the meeting who he says were "protesting for the sake of it".