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MacroBusiness Monday, December 29, 2025 - 00:05 Source

My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why Australia is experiencing its worst rental crisis in living memory. To summarise, Australian rents have soared by 44% over the past five years, according to Cotality, adding around $10,600 to the annual cost of renting the median home. As a result, rental

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 10:53 Source

On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.

 

Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 07:49 Source

In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.

 

Despite Lawyer's Detention Under Accusation of 'Terrorism', Landmark Covid-19 Lawsuit Pending Before District Court in The Netherlands

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 06:55 Source

 

The Israel President cannot be welcomed in Australia. The government he represents has been found by the International Court of Justice to have breached international law: the Netanyahu regime has committed a range of international crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

A key reason why China has, for decades, had the highest annual increases in per-capita GDP PPP (standard of living as experienced by the country’s population — as opposed to pure per-capita GDP, which reflects ONLY the investors) is the Chinese Communist Party’s relentless war against corruption.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 12:08 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 09:44 Source

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has given a positive assessment of a conversation he had with US envoys on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 06:55 Source

Australian law enforcement and intelligence agencies are to be reviewed, in the Albanese government’s latest response in the wake of the Bondi tragedy. 

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still resisting calls for a national royal commission. 

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 05:44 Source

While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue of the John Birch Society’s publication The New American.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 00:05 Source

My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why now is a particularly risky time to be utilising the federal government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers, given that the market is so expensive and risks following Canada and New Zealand with a severe housing correction. The long and short

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 18:11 Source

Across the United States, Democrats and Republicans are demanding that their leaders come clean with the Epstein files and the truth finally be told. What they are getting instead is a massive redaction campaign.

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 15:12 Source

Ukraine is a “viper’s den” rife with corruption, Hunter Biden, the son of former US President Joe Biden, has said, as he reflected on his time as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:57 Source

While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all

Western establishments’ fear of the phrase “Globalise the intifada” has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from its use.

 

Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews

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MacroBusiness Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:00 Source

  Peter Ziehan and the throttling of Venezuela and shadow oil fleets Sam Harris and Peter Ziehan on nation states DW on Trump and Venezuela Mearsheimer on oil Trump and Venezuela Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett on demise of globalisation Rest is politics on the same ABC Australian Housing Morgans Australian economy Leith and Martin

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xkcd.com Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 08:42 Source

Playing into Putin's Hands: Europe & Trump /Patrick Henningsen & Lt Col Daniel Davis

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MacroBusiness Friday, December 26, 2025 - 08:00 Source

If you listen to the masters of the financial universe, a revolution is upon us. In his 2025 letter, Larry Fink of BlackRock hailed tokenisation as the path to “democratisation.” The narrative is seductive: every asset—stocks, bonds, art, real estate—will live on a blockchain. Settlement becomes instant. Friction disappears. The gates of high finance are

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 07:15 Source

A passage from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been haunting me: “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.” 

 

How the West Unpersons Its Critics:

Or about the Kafkaesque Europe

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 06:55 Source

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century.

Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda that has already changed our world and will continue shaping it for years to come.

 

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 20:03 Source

"I am standing here in this exquisite Chapel of St George at Windsor Castle, so close to where my beloved mother, the late Queen, is laid to rest with my dear father.

"I am reminded of the deeply touching letters, cards and messages which so many of you have sent my wife and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and sympathy you have shown our whole family.

"Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones.

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 19:40 Source

A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate the willingness of the US’s rivals to respond in kind.

 

 

The Return of Nuclear Proliferation

BY EMMA CLAIRE FOLEY

 

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 19:31 Source

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will keep or sell oil confiscated from Venezuela – what precedent does it set?

"Thus far in 2025, governments are experiencing the Trump-Vance administration announcing, crafting, and implementing decisions perceived by the White House as within the confines of international law," John Kavulich, an American political scientist and expert in international politics, tells Sputnik.

 

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 10:24 Source

A city reveals itself only in motion; to stand still is to know nothing essential of it.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Why your “Green” fund might just be a lump of coal wrapped in expensive paper. Santa Claus was the original ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investor. He maintains a strict (checks it twice) database of global citizens, performs due diligence on their behaviour, and engages in negative screening (the Naughty List) and positive allocation (the

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 08:42 Source

Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating. From the nineteenth century to the present, Russia’s security concerns have been treated not as legitimate interests to be negotiated within a broader European order, but as moral transgressions to be resisted, contained, or overridden.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 08:00 Source

From the Market Ear: Stretch-marks Eight straight green months. Hedge fund leverage above the 90th percentile. Sentiment stretched, cash at record lows, and strategists unanimously bullish. Ten indicators say the same thing: risk is too one-sided. Stretchy streak With the SPX edging back into positive territory for December, the monthly streak of positive closes remains

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 06:55 Source

For the past 35 years, Carmelo Lombardo has never missed a Christmas working in the same stand at the Sydney Fish Market.

But this year, the last Christmas at the cornflower blue concrete structure before the new fish market opens next year, the 36-hour trading blitz feels bittersweet.

 

Last prawns for Christmas shoppers at the old Sydney Fish Market

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Your Democracy Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has unveiled a 20-point draft peace framework which he claims Kiev has been discussing with the US, presenting the document as a proposed basis for ending the conflict with Russia.

Zelensky disclosed the details during a briefing with journalists on Wednesday, claiming the draft largely reflects a joint Ukrainian-American position, while several key issues remain unresolved.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 00:05 Source

The team at MacroBusiness thanks you for your support in 2025 and wishes you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. We will be taking a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period, with only sporadic posting, and will return on Monday, 5 January 2026. We look forward to keeping

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