Bernard Hickey with ten questions about the European debt mess and what it might mean for New Zealand.

Barack Obama has warned of "incalculable damage", in a rare prime time speech, if the US debt...

Balancing tax and spending is not a task we can afford to cede to appointed experts...

Investors need to be wary of risks posed by overseas economies.

Biggest economy wouldn't default over politics, would it?

The tone on Wall Street and Europe's equity markets remained positive overnight amid optimism the EU is making progress in its efforts to avert a Greek default.

The danger in that case would be that, as in the global financial crisis three years ago, everyone in the market starts looking sideways at their counterparts and worrying about how much they might be exposed.