Liam Dann asks, "How worried should we be about the slump in global dairy prices? After all these years, NZ is still a giant grass-processing factory and milk remains the lifeblood of our economy."

An annual outlook on the media and entertainment industry says we're in a new era, where Kiwi consumers no longer differentiate between the traditional and the digital., writes John Drinnan.

Technology firm PowerbyProxi has been entertaining fund managers at its College Hill headquarters, suggesting work towards a potential sharemarket listing is gathering momentum.

The Greens are open to negotiating offsetting subsidies to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed firms whose survival might be threatened by their proposed carbon tax.

Financial Markets Authority chief executive Rob Everett has yet to be inducted into the club, writes Fran O'Sullivan. That's why he brings a refreshing outsider's view to the task of being New Zealand's markets watchdog.

If I were to transfer my entire superannuation from Australia and at a later date I fell into financial hardship for health reasons, would I be able to withdraw my funds with KiwiSaver.

Reports that companies are being turned away and told they are not ready for market listing are heartening, writes Liam Dann. Certainly there is no upside for investment banks in being associated with a turkey of a float.

It was a tale of two very different technology companies when Gentrack and Serko announced listing plans on Monday.

Television New Zealand is adamant the scrapping of up to 12 journalists' jobs because of cuts at 20/20 is not linked to an expensive makeover, writes John Drinnan.

Under its equivalent of the cover of darkness Parliament has legislated to stop a rort by a subset of a subset of participants in the emissions trading scheme.

I have been emailing ASB KiwiSaver scheme and also other providers in Sydney, but only faced "no responses".

One of NZ’s largest stand-alone employer superannuation scheme, the $230 million plus ANZ National Bank Staff fund is winding up.

You can have too much of a good thing, as the saying goes, and right now it is a live question whether immigration is one of those good things, writes Brian Fallow.

Fran O'Sullivan asks, "Why is it that NZ still does not have comprehensive statistics to inform governments when it comes to making critical policy decisions on foreign ownership?"

Budget 2014 lifts government spending by $1.5 billion or 2 per cent in the coming year but that will represent a cut in real per capita terms, writes Brian Fallow.

As per its pre-budget propaganda, the Australian government has put its aging population on notice: retirement has been postponed.

With today's Budget expected to herald a return to surpluses - skinny next year but plumper in the following years - it is time to start thinking about what to do with them, writes Brian Fallow.

The FSC has reiterated its call for preferential KiwiSaver tax rates, describing the current regime as "most punitive tax regime for retirement saving that we have been able to find in the developed world".

This is a Budget that needs to be familiar and reassuring, writes Liam Dann. National will be banking on English reminding middle NZ that we've survived the GFC in good shape.

A hopelessly one-sided conflict will be renewed in Ruakaka, Northland, on Thursday.

The contrary view to Labour's plan for monetary policy and savings goes broadly like this: It is a cute idea but it won't work, writes Brian Fallow.

Fran O'Sullivan asks, "What pushed Key to the point where he applied the choke chain to the Cabinet's Rottweiler? Pity Key didn't yank the chain earlier."

There's a lot of debate about a silver bullet solution for New Zealand's high dollar, writes Liam Dann. The good news is there is one. The bad news is that we have no control over it.

Labour’s proposal to transform KiwiSaver into a direct instrument of monetary policy has generated acres of comment.

What we got from Labour's finance spokesman David Parker on Tuesday was a much broader economic policy than that would imply, writes Brian Fallow.