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Juha Saarinen: Internet prices and ye olde copper network

Everyone's poring over the Commerce Commission's draft decision on ye olde copper phone line network. And no one's happy.

Robyn Pearce: One tiny improvement every day will change your life

By focusing on a 1 per cent daily improvement in any area of life, you'll become more effective in a short period of time, writes Robyn Pearce. .

Brent Sheather: Oh dear! Forecasting long term returns

A central component in the reform of the financial planning industry is education but this notion comes with problems.

Fran O'Sullivan: Revolution on the business front

Labour Leader Andrew Little has staked out valuable new territory with his announcement of a Future Work Commission.

Inside Money: Invitation to disclose - fun and games with the FMC

Chris Barton: Year of hacks, text amnesia and tweets

How did we react to the erosion of democratic rights by attack bloggers and the rise of executive power? Mostly with a collective shrug, writes Chris Barton.

Graham McGregor: The forgotten marketing channel

One of the big trends today is for businesses to use mainly digital technology to communicate with customers and potential customers.

KiwiSaver: Helping grandchildren into first home

A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

Patrick Nolan: Baby Boomers could drive us bust

On his 60th birthday Woody Allen is supposed to have joked that "practically a third of my life is over". Optimistic maybe, but illustrative - as Patrick Nolan explains.

Diana Clement: Charitable groups revolutionise gift-giving

All I want for Christmas is an Ebola emergency kit. That's not because I think I'm at risk of catching the disease.

Stock Takes: ACC losing burger appetite?

Pumpkin Patch shares hit another record low yesterday as investors continued to punish the company after a dark annual meeting.

Jock Anderson's Caseload: Why Roger Sutton hasn't had a fair go

Brian Fallow: State's social role under scrutiny

To suspicious eyes, it starts to look as if the Govt is in ideological thrall to the 1980s dogmas that the smaller the state the better, and whatever the problem, the solution is a market, writes Brian Fallow.

John Drinnan: Change, change and more change

The year is approaching its end with uncertainty over the future shape of the two big media corporates - MediaWorks, owner of TV3, and NZME., owner of the Herald,

Inside Money: KiwiSaver condemned

The only problem with this technically-excellent, thoroughly-executed, thankfully-brief statistical analysis of KiwiSaver is its uselessness.

Robyn Pearce: Multi-tasking more damaging than smoking dope

There's a common belief that women are better at multi-tasking than guys. It's only partly true.

Juha Saarinen: The elephant in the living room

SkyTV, Spark's Lightbox and Quickflix, pretend in public they're not concerned about Netflix arriving, but that's just bluster, writes Juha Saarinen.

Inside Money: Aussie politicians crack-up over advice, laughable lessons for NZ

FOFA is a serious law, introduced by the previous Labor government after a series of scandals hit Australia's financial planning industry.