Blogotariat

GUS: It was 100 years ago in December 1925 that Heisenberg finally formulated his UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE... HE PUBLISHED IT IN 1927....

THEREAFTER:....

read more

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is suggesting the idea of holding elections as a ploy to secure a ceasefire, top Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told RT. Moscow has insisted that Kiev would use the pause in fighting to rearm and regroup.

The Kremlin’s response comes as Zelensky, whose presidential term expired over a year ago, has demanded security guarantees from Western backers in order to hold the vote.

Swiss singer Nemo announced on Thursday that he is returning his 2024 Eurovision Song Contest trophy in protest over Israel’s continued participation in the competition.

Nemo, who won last year’s contest with the song ‘The Code’, said on Thursday that the trophy “no longer belongs on my shelf.”

Albanese government doubles down on Cheaper Home Batteries, tipping new funding into the red-hot scheme and adjusting its settings to make it go further.

The post Another $5 billion tipped into Cheaper Home Batteries, but rebates slashed for bigger systems appeared first on Renew Economy.

Memo to the unelected Eurobozos of the European Union’s executive branch 'responsible' for setting policy: just because you keep calling a pile of cash you’re hell-bent on handing over to Ukraine a “loan” doesn’t mean it actually is.

Asian share markets are doing quite well in the final but relatively quiet session of the trading week with the USD falling overnight on the bad but good initial jobless claims showing a soft US labour market helping supporting the risk taking. The Australian dollar has taken back its recent dip following the poor local

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Australia's green energy transition risks being stymied by a political obsession over "baseload". AEMO's Nicola Falcon explains why this misses the point.

The post Will the lights go out if we don’t have baseload? “No, absolutely not,” say those whose job it is to keep them on appeared first on Renew Economy.

Australia's largest aluminium smelter has been handed a government lifeline to ensure it keeps running amid spiralling energy costs.

The post Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter gets promise of cheaper, renewable power from feds and state appeared first on Renew Economy.

Late last month, Cotality and Proptrack published two critical housing affordability reports. Cotality’s research revealed that the national median home price relative to median household income reached a new high of 8.2 in Q3 2025, up from 6.4 five years earlier in Q3 2020. The amount of income required to service a new mortgage on

The post Housing affordability: from bad to worse appeared first on MacroBusiness.

From the Market Ear: Big in small Russell extending the break out move. This looks like an inverse head and shoulders formation. Plenty of room to run before we reach trend channel highs. The Russell fear fade Russell volatility, RVX, just closed at the lowest levels since March. Tech volatility, VXN, not so much… Wow

The post Silver Explodes, AI Wobbles appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Australia’s elite universities are accelerating their global expansion plans in response to the federal government’s decision to cap foreign student numbers. Concerned about losing revenue from international enrolments, institutions such as the University of Sydney, UNSW, and the University of Melbourne are exploring offshore campuses in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, partnerships, and joint

When Labor was in opposition, then Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers was a strong proponent of a wide variety of metrics that are championed by economists as more accurate indicators of economic performance. This earned him respect, even from his rivals, though only behind closed doors. But since coming to power, his focus has often turned

The post Treasurer Chalmers throws stones in glass house appeared first on MacroBusiness.

While most people are guilty of some level of hypocrisy, the hypocrisy afoot in today’s world takes some beating. Unfortunately, the worst hypocrites are in power in numerous countries and many, like me, seem relatively impotent in trying to at least highlight this hypocrisy, let alone remedy it.