The theory that money emerged naturally encourages people to believe free markets are natural systems in which governments only interfere. But this thinking is flawed.
If you plan for retirement now, you’ll have less of a shock waiting for you in future.
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Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her Booker longlisted debut is a novel about money. But it’s most interesting when it explores the gap between our imagined selves and what our actions reveal.
Labor may now be in office, but it’s the Coalition that still attracts the big bucks. And there remains much murkiness about who donates to whom - and why.
Alf Bruseth, ‘Politician Coin Bank’ (1938).
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The number of parents giving money on demand instead of pay has been increasing in recent times. Does it help children to better understand “the value of money”?
Both major political parties have promised to introduce financial literacy to New Zealand’s curriculum. But is school really the best place to teach students about money?
Writer Ursula Parrott, pictured with her son, Marc, in 1935.
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‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
A prenup allows couples to separate their debt from the debts of their spouse.
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