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KiwiSaver is changing – but who’s going to pay for it?

Money Talks: Caci Clinic founder Jackie Smith on how she’d transform healthcare

Could weight loss drugs transform the economy?

NZ’s economy is recovering. So why doesn’t it feel like it?

The world thinks Auckland fixed housing. Did we?

Auckland’s billion-dollar infrastructure problem

Money Talks: Why Chris Smith says you can’t retire just by working

Did Luxon have a point about struggling businesses?

Can NZ grow without more immigration?

Could NZ's job market get worse before it gets better?

The economy is coming for our fun

Money Talks: The plan to make every Kiwi wealthier with Leonard Hong

Why New Zealand wages are falling behind

Is New Zealand finally through the worst?

Is the AI Boom too good to be true?

'Take it off me, make me save' - could compulsory KiwiSaver protect our future?

Will cheaper petrol finally kickstart New Zealand's recovery?

Money Talks: What NZ gets wrong about growth with Kelly Eckhold

The great property reset

The superannuation reckoning

Budget 2026: Even grown-ups like presents at Christmas

Oil prices, inflation & interest rates: Is the worst still coming?

Our young people are chasing the Kiwi dream ... in Australia

Is this just life now? When the cost of living crisis becomes the new normal

Closing the books: the best of Money Talks, 2025

Nigel Latta 'What matters is time with people you love' (reissue)

From a hair transplant to a $12k daybed: Sam Wallace breaks down the costs of fame

Health cover premiums are rising. An insurance CEO tells us why

From hippy to peanut butter hero: The wild adventures of Pic Picot

Westpac CEO Catherine McGrath on what keeps her awake at night

Bree Tomasel on being a "shit-talking hustler"

Michael Van De Elzen: From chicken manure to celebrity chef (but don’t call him that)

Wayne Boyd: Insights from a career spent on over 160 boards

Opes Partners' Andrew Nicol: From 'poor' upbringing to owning 43 houses

Two Raw Sisters: How they overcame health problems to become media moguls and healthy eating advocates

Perpetual Guardian's Patrick Gamble: What he learned from his own financial hardships and property mistakes

Girls Get Off co-founders Viv Conway and Jo Cummins: Behind the scenes of the business the banks didn't want to touch

Dame Julie Chapman: How an abusive relationship shaped her move into charities like KidsCan

Entrepreneur Derek Handley on tech, housing, and getting dumped by Jacinda Ardern's government

Icehouse CEO Olivia Blaylock: How cancer and the GFC informed how she runs her businesses

Comedian Chris Parker: ' I'm going end Tall Poppy Syndrome by just saying it doesn't exist'

2degrees boss Mark Callendar: 'I didn’t set out to be a CEO. That was a bit of a Sliding Doors moment'

Georgia Lines:  'I never considered swapping music for something that might make more sense financially'

Pals co-founders Mat Croad and Nick Marshall: From childhood friends to RTD moguls

NZ Super chief Jo Townsend: From 'pretty tough' upbringing in rural Tasmania to running an $80 billion fund

Nigel Latta: 'The money stuff literally doesn’t matter to me. What matters is time'

Sir Bill English: 'It's easy to advocate change if you don't have to look into the eyes of those facing the consequences'

Musician Jon Toogood: How converting to Islam changed his views on money

MP turned CEO Simon Power: 'I believe in the power of market economies'

NZ Initiative's Oliver Hartwich: 'Germans hate inflation with a passion'

Suzanne Paul: 'People didn't want me to be motivated by money'

Former All Blacks manager Darren Shand: 'It wasn’t something that I had put on my life path'

EnableMe's Hannah McQueen: 'Earning money doesn’t mean that you know how to grow wealth'

Bayleys' Lloyd Budd: 'Sometimes we have to say, what are the sacrifices?'

Foodstuffs' Chris Quin: 'It’s very real to me what has happened with food price inflation'

Jack Tame: 'I saved from the word go - very nerdily'

Dame Wendy Pye: 'There’s nothing wrong with making money out of helping people'

ACT leader David Seymour: 'I’m a liberal in the classical and consistent sense of it'

Author Emily Perkins: ‘We’re always going to be drawn to stories about the unhappy rich’

Briscoes owner Rod Duke: 'I don't spend a lot of money on myself'

ASB CEO Vittoria Shortt: 'Don’t go and choose something because it pays'

Business leader Rob Campbell: ‘I don’t mind being called a Marxist’

Labour's Barbara Edmonds: 'There was some times when the cupboards would be bare'

Emma Lewisham on creating her own company: 'If there’s a backup plan, you’re not going to go all in'

AA CEO Nadine Tereora: 'Work hard in silence and let success be your noise'

Guyon Espiner on media cuts: 'It's like we've been running from the tsunami for a long time'

Andrew Barnes on 4-day weeks: 'If that's my legacy, that's better than anything else I've ever done'

Ockham co-founder Mark Todd: 'I find it quite motivating to spend a little bit of money on things that are unnecessary'

Comedian Hayley Sproull: 'I didn't get into this career for money'

Stacey Morrison: 'I’ve had to work on getting out of a poverty mindset'

Healthcare entrepreneur Ranjna Patel: 'Output is one thing, but outcomes are more important'

Sudima founder Sudesh Jhunjhnuwala: 'I’m a vegetarian so I can’t go and buy cavier and filet mignons'

Spark CEO Jolie Hodson: 'You don’t want to get to the end of life and think: I spent a lot of time working'

Mint's Rebecca Thomas: 'Money was not a taboo subject in our household'

CTI winner James Mustapic: 'I do try to be sensible with money - you may not have a gig for weeks'

Simplicity's Sam Stubbs: 'I'm probably the most hated man in business'

MKR NZ's Manu and Colin: 'Being a chef is not the ideal way to make money'

Jesse Mulligan: 'I think I’m probably the last generation of TV presenters'

Patrick Gower: 'I’m probably the worst with money that has ever been on this podcast'

Dame Therese Walsh: 'I don’t aspire to be incredibly wealthy'

Sharesies co-founder Leighton Roberts: 'The economics are a little bit twisted in New Zealand'

Broadcaster Toni Street: 'Unfortunately, I am a spender'

Comedian Michèle A'Court: 'Money was an impolite subject of conversation'

TOP leader Raf Manji: 'The stain and the scars of the 80s inform a lot of NZ politics'

Partners Life founder Naomi Ballantyne: 'My first memories of money were not having any'

Sir Roger Douglas on 'Rogernomics': 'We were faced with a problem, we needed to fix it'

Sir John Key: 'Nothing terrifies people more than that they'll run out of money'

JP Pomare: 'I embraced being completely broke'

Corin Dann: 'I was just so stoked to have a job washing dishes'

Mary Holm: 'People get too scared to spend money'

Shamubeel Eaqub: 'A lot of economics is shades of grey'

Heather du Plessis-Allan: 'I'm so tightfisted my mum yelled at me the other day'

Antonia Watson: 'Banking is borrowing money from people - there's a huge amount of trust'

Grant Robertson: 'Money plays such a big role in the way we live our lives'

Jono and Ben: From sleeping in cars to blowing big money on pranks

Murray Crane: 'We've seen this dramatic shift in the way people are dressing'

Christina Leung: 'Coming here as a child of immigrants in the 1990s, it took a while for my parents to find jobs'

Kita Mean: 'The world of drag is very expensive'

Brad Olsen: 'I don't know if working hard gets you a house these days'

Kura Forrester: 'It's amazing how people think, because you're on TV, it must mean you're rich'

Joan Withers: 'If I really wanted to be very rich, I should have done some things differently'

Money Talks Season 3 trailer

Sistema founder Brendan Lindsay - 'I couldn't afford to buy a beer'

Jason Hoyte - 'There was always just enough to get by'

Renata Blair - 'How do we bridge the banking world and iwi world?'

Cameron Bagrie - 'We're entering a new era of big government and higher taxes'

Rob Fyfe - 'Traditionally I've been very poor with money'

Chloe Swarbrick - 'Money was talked about as an impediment to doing what you loved'

Shane Te Pou - 'Working class families looked out for each other'

Economist Sharon Zollner - 'Our predictions will be wrong, more often than they're right'

Matt Heath - 'Money wasn't a big part of my life. Until it really was.'

Theresa Gattung - 'We were brought up to believe you had to work'

Sir Michael Cullen - 'Affluence gives you the ability to have choices'

Kerre McIvor - 'It's my god-given duty to spend it'

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