This week I am playing it safe with an easy target. Let's hear it for receivers.

For months now I've been using the term "freasy" for social media marketing. Meaning it's free and easy to do.

Too many businesses are relying on the recession to keep staff from moving on.

There are 10 reasons to be cheerful after two weeks of gloom. They are also an antidote for those who say I am a permanent harbinger of doom.

Peter Wood writes on the importance of resuming commerce after an emergency.

The panic to bail out SCF reveals cracks in the economy, writes Gareth Morgan.

Directors of our failed companies may well feel beleaguered as the spotlight of public reprobation turns in their direction.

One upside of the Christchurch earthquake is that nature has unleashed the biggest job creation scheme NZ has seen.

Allan Hubbard believed his self-righteous hype - sadly, so did we.

Simple handover plan can remove the angst and smooth the transition of a family business to a new generation.

A respected children's media expert is lamenting that kids have been sacrificed to sleaze under NZ's TV standards system.

Peter Dunne's bill is unfair, unaffordable and unlikely to happen, writes Brian Fallow.

A climate of reform will put the squeeze on the industry's profitability for some time, writes Susan Easton.

John Armstrong writes that John Key must reassure investors that their cash is safe, while minimising the taxpayers' burden.

Our companies need fewer grey old worthies and more original thinkers.

If a new identity is the only way to escape your online past, maybe Facebook just isn't worth it.