Cooking The Books

Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. But for the next three weeks we've gone political, asking the leader of each political party currently in Parliament for their best money tip for the average person. This week, it's the Greens. Hosted by Frances Cook.Politicians are always banging on about the economy. Who has the better understanding of it, how they're the person to get our economy running hotter, why the other guy's ideas are stupid.Which is all well and good, but what about on the day to day level?Do our politicians remember what it's like to be the little guy like you or me, and are they keeping an eye on the issues affecting our lives? How hard it is to make ends meet? Maybe even a few suggestions on what we can do for life to be a bit easier?Money issues touch every part of our lives, and I want to know what the people in charge think about it.So, I sat down with Green Party co-leader James Shaw to get his best money tip to he