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Friday, November 21, 2025 - 09:30
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When Australia closed out the 2017 calendar year, the total number of properties listed for sale reached a level considered, at the time, deeply depressed. With just a little over 200,000 homes listed for sale, it was dramatically below what had become normal in the early to mid-2010s, when the 220,000 to 240,000 homes for The post Australia’s housing market depression appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 09:26
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MacroBusiness
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 09:00
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Oh what a night! Wall Street managed to a 4% plus volatile turnaround after embracing the uber good earnings from NVIDIA before realising the AI bubble might be a bubble with no upside potential, not helped by a massaged and very late September US jobs report and a lot of Fed hand wrangling over rate The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 08:02
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Renew Economy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 07:56
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MacroBusiness
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 07:22
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DXY is ready to pop but not yet. AUD is breaking down. CNY yawn. Gold and oil yawn. Metals say Chinese property rescue is no bueno. Miners too. EeeiiuuM Junk was OK, weirdly. Yields too. Stocks puke. US September payrolls didn’t cheer anybody. Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 119,000 in September but has shown The post Australian dollar has a Japanese breakdown appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 06:55
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France’s top general, Fabien Mandon, is facing backlash after saying the country must be ready to “lose children” in a potential conflict with Russia. Moscow has dismissed Western speculation that it has any plans to attack the EU or NATO as “nonsense.” |
Your Democracy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 06:33
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Private capital will not build Australia a world-class science system. Only the public sector can do that. And it must do so at a scale that matches the challenges ahead. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 05:44
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Japan and China both have legitimate security concerns. But an informed debate needs major media outlets to stop systematically erasing the historical context that shapes how the region understands current events. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 00:05
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A new proposal has been pitched in the United States to address the country’s housing crisis. The Trump administration is working to introduce 50-year mortgage terms for homebuyers. Instead of the standard 30-year fixed mortgage, payments would be spread across 50 years. President Trump has framed it as a continuation of the American Dream, likening The post Lifetime mortgages won’t help housing affordability appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Renew Economy
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 00:01
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Your Democracy
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 21:30
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 18:29
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 18:22
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Cheeseburger Gothic
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 17:15
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The house was gloriously quiet and still today, allowing me to get back to World War 3.3. As I expected, I wasn’t able to spin up from nothing to seven hours of two-fisted manuscript punching. But I managed four hours of concentrated work, and I’m gonna take that as a win. Mostly I worked at my desktop, but I got to one part of the chapter I’m working on at the moment (a little spoiler alert: Kim Philby and Guy Burgess tooling around the Outback, playing at saboteurs) and I thought, you know, now would be the time for these two to have a talk about everything going on in their lives. |
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 17:00
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Action in Japanese bond markets dominate risk taking across Asia with stock markets having mixed sessions after Wall Street stabilised overnight, with Japanese shares launching higher. The USD pulled back against most of the undollars after a big surge overnight on the release of the FOMC minutes which indicated the December rate cut may not The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 16:19
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Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, the morning that Kennedy was killed, Reynolds was testifying in a closed-door session of the Senate Rules Committee about a kickback scheme he was involved in on behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 14:44
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Your Democracy
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 14:11
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Two of the EU’s most powerful and controversial officials, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, are struggling for control of the EU’s diplomacy and intelligence services in a confrontation “worthy of ‘Game of Thrones’,” the French newspaper Le Monde has reported, citing sources.
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 14:00
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Goldman has some whacky analysis of China today. October activity weakness not too alarming: China’s October economic data showed wide spread weakness, especially in property and investment. Most major indicators grew less than 5% year-on-year, and property new starts declined nearly 30% yoy. This downturn is partly due to technical factors, such as a high The post Australia miraculously dodges China bullet appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 13:30
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All recent opinion polls show that Australian voters are fed up with excessive levels of immigration. People cite the impact on the housing market as a major concern. Recently, AMP chief economist forecast that Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is at least 200,000 and could be as much as 300,000. The latest projections from the National |
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 13:00
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The following chart from Alex Joiner from IFM Investors summarises how the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on energy subsidies have masked the rise in electricity costs: In 2024–25, households received up to $300 in rebates, and eligible small businesses up to $325, costing the federal budget $3.5 billion. In the May 2025 Budget, the The post Labor hides energy policy failures appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 12:30
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It is maddening watching the Domain newspapers distort everything about property. Real estate agents will have to disclose a home’s reserve price well before buyers attend auctions under Australian-first laws aimed at tackling rampant property underquoting in Victoria. The fundamental change, to be announced by the Allan government on Thursday, follows this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation, which |
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 12:05
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In this week’s podcast, join us as we examine why Australia’s stock market looks expensive compared to global peers — and whether the nation’s limited exposure to high-growth tech and AI could see it left behind once again. Join us when we go live at 12:30 AEDT! Click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel The post MB Fund Podcast: Could NVIDIA’s report shake confidence in the AI boom? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 12:00
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The ferrous complex reamins paralysed by the jaws. Goldman has some intelligence from the ground. Steel: steel demand is seen as reasonable to solid/stable, with ongoing weakness in property and infrastructure construction sectors being offset by strong demand from manufacturing, auto, shipbuilding, machinery and exports. All steel mills we had meetings with are seeing the The post China shoots itself in the iron ore foot appeared first on MacroBusiness. |












