Money

Retired people who rely on the interest on their savings for income say they are living on peanuts. Audio

The Finance Minister, Bill English is also dismissing fears the cut in the Official Cash Rate will cause Auckland house prices to escalate. Audio

Real estate commentators say the Reserve Bank's cut to interest rates is unlikely to push Auckland house prices higher. Audio

Westpac is proposing the closure of its Ruatoria branch - which means locals would have to travel to Gisborne to do their banking. Bill Burdett has lived in Ruatoria for more than 60 years, He's been… Audio

There's no such thing as a free lunch, with independent scholar Brian Easton. The TPP and the US Trade Promotion Authority. Audio

Director of the Auckland multi-media company Propeller Motion who created the video for Planet Key, and the Animation Nation series for TV3's The Nation. Audio

South Canterbury Finance investors who lost millions of dollars have pledged more than a hundred-thousand dollars to fund a possible legal claim. Audio

We visit a school where 10 year olds are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars using a virtual financial system called Banqer that's training them in financial literacy. With teacher Jolene Butson… Audio

Some of the world's largest banks are to be fined more than 7-billion dollars for colluding to manipulate foreign currency rates. Audio

An adjunct Professor at Victoria University and former PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan. Audio

The Prime Minister is adament his new tax on capital gains is not a capital gains tax rather it is tightening up of the property tax rules by creating what is called a bright line. Audio

The Prime Minister has in the past made it very clear he opposes CGT. Audio

Property investors say the Government's move to tighten up property tax rules will not solve the Auckland housing market crisis and opposition politicians say the government's running scared of public… Audio

Across the Tasman, and the Abbott Government - in its second budget - has backed the small business sector to take over the baton from the mining industry in driving the economy. Audio

A tax practitioner, Geof Nightingale, says the Government's tougher property tax rules could put further pressure on Auckland's overheated market. Audio

Expert in kleptocracy, anti-corruption, and civil-military relations with ten years' experience in Afghanistan; currently a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia… Audio

The Reserve Bank also in that statement issued a warning about the high levels of debt in the dairy sector, saying this was a risk to the financial system. Audio

The New Zealand dollar has fallen after more economists bet the Reserve Bank would cut the official cash rate as early as June. Audio

Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary, Macroenomic, International and Economic Research, at the New Zealand Treasury. Audio

Farmers are being urged to keep fighting for more compensation from banks that misled them into signing up for an interest rate swap deals. Audio