Blogotariat

Federal Labor's Cheaper Home Batteries rebate is expected to have received a whopping 175,000 applications by the end of 2025.

I cannot comment on the prospects of the latest deal, but we can run some scenario analysis to assess the outcomes. Goldman looks at oil. Brent crude prices have declined 5% over the past week to $62/bbl as the market reassesses the prospect of a potential Russia-Ukraine peace deal. While uncertainty around the details of

The post What will a Ukraine peace deal do to commodities? appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The Market Ear on stocks and fear. Panic gone The extreme VIX vs SPX gap is gone. Chart shows SPX vs VIX (inverted). Source: LSEG Workspace Downside panic also gone Downside protection has reset sharply lower during the latest bounce. The SDEX implosion has been agressive over the past days. Source: LSEG Workspace Seen VVIX?

The post Fear recedes appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Recall that long-time immigration influencer Abul Rizi, who has forever championed a Big Australia and has ruthlessly attacked anybody arguing for lower immigration, amusingly endorsed the Canadian government’s sharp immigration cuts. In an article published on Independent Australia this month, Rizvi said the following about Canada’s immigration cuts: CONSISTENT WITH its announced long-term immigration plan

The larger the nation’s bureaucracy, the worse the policymaking. Data from the Australian Public Service Commission (APS) shows that the number of federal public servants increased by 7.4% in 2024-25, to a record high of 198,529. The public service headcount has increased by 24.7%—or 39,350 people—since Labor took office in May 2022. The APS report

The post Bureaucratic bloat is crushing the economy appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The robots are coming for your job. Expected capex is through the roof. Via the ABS. Total capital expenditure Estimate 4 for 2025-26 is $191.3b This is 9.4% higher than Estimate 3 for 2025-26 In this very rare case, the outcome is not related to mining. It is AI. Whoa! Westpac is bullish for GDP.

The post AI drives business investment boom appeared first on MacroBusiness.

On Thursday morning, a press release from APRA with the headline: ‘APRA to limit high debt-to-income home loans to constrain riskier lending’ At first glance, it sounds perfectly reasonable, but once one begins to read into the details, it swiftly becomes clear that it is yet another one of APRA’s wet lettuce leaf approaches to

The post APRA hits property investors with wet lettuce appeared first on MacroBusiness.

With Wall Street closed for Thanksgiving there wasn’t much of a boost for risk markets across the trading complex, with most stock indices finishing where they started and currencies holding on to their recent gains against the USD. The likely rate cut by the Fed in its December meeting is still in play with USD

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The Vatican has warned Catholics against polygamy, insisting that real marriage is a lifelong and exclusive union of one man and one woman.

In a new doctrinal note backing monogamy signed by Pope Leo XIV and released on Tuesday, the Vatican rejected both polygamy and polyamory, saying these practices rely on “the illusion that the intensity of the relationship can be found in the succession of faces.”

Off-grid gold miner reaches more than 100 consecutive hours of fossil engines off with its hybrid array of wind, solar and battery storage.

Ukraine is running out of men, having lost 47,500 troops in October while mobilizing only 14,000, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed on Thursday. How do the facts on the ground affect the negotiating process?

"The casualty trends are extremely negative for Kiev," National Defense magazine editor-in-chief Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik. "But despite these highly unfavorable developments, the Zelensky regime continues the conflict with Western support."

While there is no denying that Europe during the last 500 years was the foundation of Western civilization and led the way in the industrial revolution and scientific advancements, it also created a bloody colonial legacy that produced incalculable human suffering across the globe.

Why Europe No Longer Matters

by Larry C. Johnson

Wind and solar developers look for smarter ways to house construction workers than costly and short-term Dongers, and leave a lasting benefit to local communities.