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At Large with Toby Manhire: Is the Reserve Bank’s blunt tool just too blunt?

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Going up after digging down

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To cut or not to cut?

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Post Covid hybrid work

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How big do we want to be?

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An abundance of energy

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Dissension in the RBNZ ranks

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Budget special: When The Facts Change x Gone By Lunchtime

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Let the Budget battles commence

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Warmer, drier - and cheaper in the long run

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Housing market psychology 101

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How do we create the ‘2degrees Effect’ for supermarkets, banking and electricity?

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An AI-powered startup

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The global aftermath of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’

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The green shoots and brown roots of our economy

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Planting the trees we’ll never sit under

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New Zealand’s greatest invention: a monetary policy framework?

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A handy Primer for the global AI economy

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Shock and Orr

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Mortgage rates, braking and accelerating

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The startup savant behind Trade Me and Xero

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‘Show me the money’: What Kiwi are buying this summer

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Rising tides and sinking boats

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How do we measure the value of social investment?

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Is 2025 the year to thrive?

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What austerity actually means

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A fast track to cronyism?

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“Tariffs are beautiful. They’ll make us rich”

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It’s darkest before the dawn

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What’s on Aotearoa’s shopping list?

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Inside Wellington’s homeless crisis

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Home on the marae

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The OCR grinch has turned into Father Christmas

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How fair is our tax system?

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Behind Porirua’s poverty

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The cost of prison

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How to give employees what they want, when they want it

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An economic spring in our step

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The hidden battery in your home

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Is Nicola Willis cutting costs or cutting growth?

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We’re all getting older and something has got to give

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Gazing into the infrastructure crystal ball

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When the interest rates change

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Navigating our economy forward (by looking in the rear-view mirror)

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This is Kiwi: Dane and Stacey on choosing adventures over assets

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An electrifying plan for Aotearoa

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This is Kiwi: Jess Hong on chasing dreams as an introvert

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Building better goal posts for emissions accounting

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This is Kiwi: Taylor Roche on turning obstacles into opportunities

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The lights have switched off at the Consumer Advocacy Council

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This is Kiwi: Jess Quinn on normalising differences

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Finally, the RBNZ cuts the OCR

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This is Kiwi: Kirsten Dodgen on proving the doubters wrong

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Why insulation is such a hot topic

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This is Kiwi: TJ Perenara on speaking your truth

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How the world ran out of everything

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So much wealth... and poverty

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We may have slain the inflation dragon

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Bill English’s big ideas for Kāinga Ora

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Will we see a rate cut from the Reserve Bank this year?

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A decade in charge of the national power grid

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What kind of homes do we actually want?

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Bonus episode: When the most facts changed the fastest

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Listen Now: episode one of Juggernaut – I Love You, Mr Lange

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Why is the Reserve Bank continuing to hold the OCR?

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How a cold snap almost caused an national energy crisis

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Budget day special

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An interest rate bludgeoning

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Floods knocked out Redclyffe, so why rebuild on the same flood-prone site?

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How many lives is that tax cut worth?

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Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t

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The unreachable dream of the kiwi bach

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The meaning of digital cash

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The week the economic mood shifted

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Who is being hit hardest by inflation?

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When monopolies clash

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How do we get over the electrification tipping point?

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Should philanthropic giving be a moral obligation?

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A battle won in the War for Wellington

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Navigating the rising tide of electricity demand

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When caution reigns

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To hike, or not to hike? Unpacking the monetary policy statement with Adrian Orr

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This is Kiwi: Sarah Hirini on growth and leadership

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The real reason our government won't borrow to fix our infrastructure issues

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This is Kiwi: Nico Porteous on the process of performance

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How super is NZ Super?

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This is Kiwi: Louis Davis on modern fatherhood

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We all need to cut 75% of our personal carbon emissions. But how?

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This is Kiwi: Kendall Flutey on focusing your ambition

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A year on: decoding the cost of major weather events

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This is Kiwi: Te Aorere Pēwhairangi on finding inspiration

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The latest acronym in the Reserve Bank's tool kit

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This is Kiwi: Jazz Thornton on resilience through adversity

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What's behind New Zealand's water woes?

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Summer minipod 3: the grim reality for low-lying suburbs

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Summer minipod 2: the closing window of hope for our climate

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Summer minipod 1: “end of story”

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Monopod: Reacting to Nicola Willis' mini-budget

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023

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The economic impact of record-high migration