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<i>Inside Money:</i> Passive Design - a weird budget default option
What's a no-Nanny State National government doing volunteering its surrogate services to conceive another unwanted financial product?

Look out, taniwha on the Auckland rail track
Plans for an Auckland city rail link tunnel could be spiked by a taniwha - a spiritual creature...

<i>Gareth Morgan:</i> Bubbles on beer budget poor life choice
Money isn't everything but having no money is. Ask anyone on poor street...

Brian Gaynor: Phobia of local investment holding us back
Managed fund stats show depth of savings crisis facing New Zealand.

Fran O'Sullivan: Treasury needs boss with guts and goals
No replacement in sight for John Whitehead, the 'shrinking violet' who's left for the World Bank.

Rail link benefits 'significantly overstated' - review
A rail link in the Auckland CBD would only have a "modest impact on traffic volumes" a Government-ordered review has found.

Budget balances books - at a price
The Government has delivered a budget that will bring its books back into surplus by 2014/15 and the price will be paid by the public service, parents, and KiwiSavers.

Brian Fallow: Ratings agencies pacified but no straying off track
Focus of concern is instead the amount the country as a whole is borrowing.

Plenty to disappoint observers on both ends of the political spectrum
They've given up even trying to grow the economy

Mighty River Power tipped to be first SOE on sales block
Government looks for $5b to $7b from sell-downs and smaller holding in Air NZ.