COMMENT: New ways are needed to help councils bear cost of vital infrastructure.

For global commodity markets, the start to 2017 has been resoundingly positive.

We are told to embrace vulnerability, but the word itself is hard to hug.

COMMENT: How to double the results from all your advertising.

COMMENT: Warm relationship will be a plus with trade talks to hammer out.

COMMENT: The tech beat has developed in a boiling the frog fashion, Juha Saarinen writes.

COMMENT: With the new NZ Super amounts set to change, it puts things in perspective.

COMMENT: Grant Fenn's move leaves some elated and others scratching their heads.

COMMENT: The Shareholders' Association is on the warpath.

COMMENT: Digital content is a key strategy for the public broadcaster.

COMMENT: Here's how to get a large number of high quality clients.

China is proving a counter-balance to Donald Trump's protectionist sentiments.

COMMENT: Most money fights are not about money at all, Tom Hartmann writes.

COMMENT: Big business is on a collision course with some conservative Australian politicians, Christopher Niesche writes.

COMMENT: Children need bank accounts, they help them learn about the financial facts of life.

COMMENT: Liam Dann locks in his interest rate for a longer period and wonders if it's asking for a global meltdown.

COMMENT: Want to know what's going on in NZ's external affairs? Ask Australia.

KiwiSaver is a fantastic long-term superannuation scheme but it has one major drawback: limited domestic investment opportunities.

COMMENT: One-time Act Party vice-president finds an audience among US conservatives, John Drinnan writes.

COMMENT: Gareth Morgan's Opportunities Party has some radical ideas for tax and benefits, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: If you can't say what you do in 30 seconds, you won't be able to say it in 30 minutes either.

COMMENT: Can you learn debt lessons by playing at loan shark?

COMMENT: Have we reached a point where people trust company employees more than CEOs?

Keep an eye on your local petrol pump. Prices shouldn't be rising soon, thanks to an oil price slump.

COMMENT: The cache of CIA documents released by Wikileaks doesn't tell us much new, Juha Saarinen writes.

Would you like greater marketing success from less cost in time, dollars and effort?

Dutch researchers have found that electronic energy meters can be wildly inaccurate.

In spite of global uncertainty, the NZ economy has enjoyed extended growth.

I have a burning question. Why do banks send credit cards to teenagers when they turn 18?

COMMENT: A good piece of investment advice is listen to your partner and kids.