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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 17:39 Source

The EU must revise its military strategy and drastically ramp up defense production to help Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday. The call comes amid repeated warnings from Kiev over ammunition shortages.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 17:00 Source

Asian share markets are in mixed mood as both the BOJ and RBA meetings put some volatility into local currencies as well as stocks, with dovishness sending them both down against USD. Wall Street is looking to start slightly higher after a solid session overnight but traders now await the next FOMC meeting while the

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 15:34 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 14:51 Source

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released its March Monetary Policy Decision, which, as expected, kept the official cash rate (OCR) on hold at 4.35%. However, the RBA has removed its tightening bias, noting that the “Board will rely upon the data and the evolving assessment of risks”.  Below are key extracts from the

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AustralianPolitics.com Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 14:42 Source

The Reserve Bank has left the cash rate unchanged at 4.35%, in a decision announced today. The cash rate has now been held at 4.35% for the past four months. In a statement released today, the RBA board says that inflation has moderated but is still high. It says the “outlook is highly uncertain”. The statement issued by the board is shown below. Interest Rate Movements Since 1990

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 14:39 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 14:00 Source

Australia’s governments have conducted several housing affordability inquiries throughout decades, including but not limited to: Menzies Research Centre: Prime Ministerial Taskforce on Home Ownership 2003; The Productivity Commission’s First Home Ownership Report in 2004; A Good House is Hard to Find Report from the Senate Select Committee on Housing Affordability in Australia in 2008; Western

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 13:36 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Last week, it was revealed that NSW’s allocation of the goods and services tax (GST) would be cut by $188 million in 2024-25, whereas Victoria’s GST allocation would be lifted by $3.8 billion: NSW’s GST cut comes despite the state receiving 174,000 net overseas migrants in in 2022-23, 20,000 more than Victoria (154,000) and easily

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 13:05 Source
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted below, claiming that “we’ve created more new jobs than any first-term government on record”. “Our plan means more people in work, earning more and keeping more of what they earn”. While the level of job creation might be true, it comes against the backdrop of a record increase in Australia’s

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:30 Source

This is such a bad idea, both politically and economically. I never agree with Australia’s evil energy firms, but they are right about this: Energy Australia, whose Hong Kong-listed owner CLP currently operates two large nuclear power stations in mainland China, said the company was “committed to Australia’s clean energy transformation, reducing emissions as quickly

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:00 Source

What is it with the hard left? Why can’t they admit that running the nation’s largest-ever immigration program has had a detrimental impact on Australian renters? In the past month, we have witnessed The Greens’ housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather twice claim (here and here) that Australia’s extreme immigration program has had minimal impact on Australian

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:42 Source
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This is a good policy: Australia’s competition regulator would gain powers to “smash the supermarket duopoly” and force the breakup of big supermarket chains, under a push from the Greens to be introduced to federal parliament. The Greens will this week table a private senator’s bill seeking to introduce divestiture powers into Australian competition law.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:00 Source

PropTrack’s home values index shows that Brisbane dwelling values have increased by 61% since the beginning of the pandemic, dwarfing the 33% increase across Sydney and the 16% rise across Melbourne: PropTrack also showed that Brisbane’s median dwelling value was equal to Melbourne’s at $797,000 in February. Admittedly, Brisbane has a higher share of detached houses

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:31 Source

By Denis Bright   The tidal wave swing against Labor in the Ipswich West by-election on 16 March 2024 created no ripples on the stagnant Bremer River. Historic struggles on behalf of the Labor Movement will come and go in the future without any lasting effects from the by-election results. The Timothy Molony Oval in front…

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:30 Source

Victoria’s population has surged by around 2.2 million people this century to more than 6.8 million people: Official state government projections have Victoria’s population swelling to 11.2 million people by 2056, with Melbourne transforming into a megacity of 9.0 million people: The overwhelming majority of this growth will be driven by net overseas migration: This

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:54 Source

It’s not quite as bad as feared from earlier reporting but it’s hardly lighting it up, either: The price for residential customers without controlled load in SE Queensland is $2,022 which is an increase of 2.7%. For customers with controlled load, the price is $2,363, which is Default market offer prices 2024–25: draft determination unchanged

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:30 Source

DXY and oil run together: AUD is the opposite: JPY held: Copper is the latest stupidity: Mining steamroller meets pennies: EM stocks are fading with China: Junk is fine: Even as yields chase oil: Stocks are going up: RBA rate futures still have no cut before September, and even then, only slowly: But Aussie yield

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:29 Source
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Wall Street was able to start the new trading week with confidence going into a volatile period as major central banks set their interest rates again, with the RBA the first cab off the rank today. Tech stocks helped pushed US stocks higher while European shares remain in a holding pattern. Both USD and bond

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:40 Source
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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:39 Source

“Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate” – historian Alfred W. McCoy.

 

The Vampire Ball is ending for the US Empire    By Jeremy Kuzmarov

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:30 Source

The December quarter wage price index from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported the strongest nominal growth in wages since March 2009. Public sector wage growth surged in Q4, buoyed by pay outcomes for health workers and teachers, whereas wage pressures across the private sector abated. Indeed, the next chart from Justin Fabo at

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:09 Source

Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of Australia releases documents like the newborn into the information world. The event is not without irony, given that such documents are often aged and seasoned numbers, whiskered by storage and…

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:00 Source

The Market Ear with the latest on equities. 4.35% matters Morgan Stanley’s Wilson: “While almost all of the equity market rally late last year was attributable to lower rates, stocks are now trying to move past their dependence on central bank policy. This week’s Fed and BOJ meetings will be important tests to see if

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 07:30 Source

Is Peter Dutton an idiot? We know the LNP is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. But that is not enough to explain why the opposition leader is ignoring his best and only chance of rolling the Albanese Government. Albo has jumped the shark on mass immigration, creating an unprecedented housing shock. Everybody I

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