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| Mary Holm : Always take care of the pennies |
| Under the mattress A piece in the paper recently about the cost of producing coins getting close to their face value got me thinking. The best deal in terms of metal weight must have been the old pennies. Each penny weighed... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Diana Clement : How to save teens from the credit trap |
| Getting sucked into the credit card trap seems to be a teenage rite of passage in New Zealand.Every year, plenty of teenagers and those in their early 20s rack up huge debt - sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars. Believe... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Brent Sheather : Time value of money needs weighing up |
| At the start of this year, the consensus among financial advisers, economists, stock brokers and all those others that frequently get their forecasts wrong was interest rates were going up, no question about it.Quantitative easing,... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| $219,000 in interest daily for bailout |
| The Government will pay more than $200,000 in daily interest on this week's $1.8 billion payout to South Canterbury Finance investors, but has had plenty of time to buttress its finances against the impact.South Canterbury is... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Sandy Maier, the man who did his best to rescue SCF |
| Avuncular, bearded, bespectacled, affable Sandy Maier, 59, was born in New York's lower east side, growing up in the shadow of the Empire State Building, then going to the United States' two best universities.Looking for all the... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Liam Dann : SCF city slicker in homespun clothing |
| Boom. After threatening to blow for months, South Canterbury Finance finally went this week with a ferocity that captured the attention of the whole country. Nothing focuses people like the news they are paying for something themselves.Many... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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