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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Earlier this week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data showing that the total value of Australia’s dwelling stock hit a record high $10.4 trillion at the end of 2023: The average price of Australian dwellings also rose to $933,800. Separate data released on Thursday by CoreLogic also showed that the total value of

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Renew Economy Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 13:27 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 13:00 Source

I haven’t seen this report so can’t comment directly but here are Goldman’s new iron ore forecasts: Q1 US$120 a tonne Q2 US$115 a tonne Q3 US$105 a tonne Q4 US$100 a tonne 2025 $95 2026 $93 2027 $92 58% benchmark price to be 89% in 2024, 86% in 2025, and 83% in 2026 and

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:30 Source

The media in Australia and around the world were enthralled last year by a study showing that ‘upzoning’ planning amendments introduced in Auckland in 2016 had a substantial impact on lowering property prices. Under the policy, almost three-quarters of Auckland’s residential land was upzoned, which the research claimed resulted in tens of thousands of new

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:05 Source

With many Australian investors under-invested in international shares, this is a reminder of why and how you can get international exposure. Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Chief Strategist, David Llewellyn-Smith, run through the top reasons to own international shares at this point in the cycle.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:00 Source

Deloitte Access Economics has published a note on Australia’s housing crisis, which is attributed to housing demand via population growth (read immigration) overrunning the housing supply. “The root of Australia’s housing crisis is that supply is failing to keep up with rising demand”, Deloitte says. “Demand has escalated in line with strong population growth driven

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:49 Source

How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the US Congress, evident over debates on whether the platform TikTok should be banned in the United States. Much of this seems based on an assumption that foreign companies are…

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:30 Source

Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers is a very practised liar but he’s not too bright: The federal government’s revenue expectations will be downgraded significantly in the May budget due to falling commodity prices and a softening jobs market, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal on Thursday. While the government is still striving to deliver a budget surplus

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Renew Economy Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:25 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:00 Source

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) argues in a new report that the nation’s pool of skilled migrants is being underutilised. CEDA’s senior economist, Andrew Barker, says recent migrants earn significantly less than Australian-born workers, and many are in jobs that are beneath their skill level. “Recent migrants earn significantly less than Australian-born

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 10:30 Source

Last week’s Q4 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that real per capita household consumption fell by 2.5% in 2023, which was the weakest result since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis outside of the pandemic: The ABS’s January Household Spending Indicator also revealed that, in nominal terms, household spending increased

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The Tally Room Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 10:30 Source

In yesterday’s post I explored some of the intra-party dynamics you get under Hare-Clark when multiple candidates from the same party are competing.

In this post I wanted to map out the relative strength of different candidates from within a single party across an electorate.

There’s some similarities in style to this post I did for the last ACT election in 2020.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 10:00 Source

Data from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), published in The Australian, shows that couples now require $72,148 a year ($1382 a week) to live comfortably in retirement, while single people need $51,278 ($982 a week). The cost of a comfortable retirement increased by 3.5% in 2023, according to ASFA, below the official

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Your Democracy Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 09:42 Source

The Russian president gave an extended interview to the director of Sputnik’s parent media agency on Wednesday, focusing on the crisis in Ukraine, the threat of direct NATO intervention and the prospects for peace talks.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 09:30 Source

It was Bob Hawke that committed Labor to no child living in poverty. He must be rolling his grave. Labor is now minting child poverty on an industrial scale. In the last few weeks, Anthony Albanese’s astonishing housing crisis has become more personal for me. I have had direct exposure to a series of young

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Risk markets were again quite muted overnight with the USD falling slightly in the wake of the recent inflation print as markets overall are positioning for next week’s Fed meeting. Wall Street stumbled again after trying to make another new high while European stocks performed soundly. Asian shares will try to claw back the previous

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 08:30 Source

My long-term investment idol is back. Well, the U.S. is really enjoying itself if you go by stock prices. A Shiller P/E of 34 (as of March 1st) is in the top 1% of history. Total profits (as a percent of almost anything) are at near-record levels as well. Remember, if margins and multiples are

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 08:00 Source

There are some great charts in this presention. Albert Edwards at Societe General. Complacency is dangerous. One only has to think of the fate of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March–which somewhat worryingly is this Friday. Hence now that almost every market guru has walked back their recession call, wouldn’t it be just typical

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 06:33 Source

BofA with the note. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has expanded its balance sheet by nearly RMB5tn or12% over the past 7 months, according to the latest data released by the central bank (Exhibit 1). This larger-than-usual expansion has led some to claim that China isnowembarking on its own version of Quantitative Easing (QE)

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 06:12 Source

These days, everybody is a drama queen so it no surpise that a small fall in iron ore has them ripping at the bodice. Yet, so far, the correction in iron ore has been relatively small and not much more than blowing the froth off the NY party: Iron ore is very volatile so this

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 03:01 Source

By Denis Bright   The issue of AUKUS has resurfaced from the murky depths of undersea politics. ABC News graphics remind readers of the latest additional payment to fast track the AUKUS deal with its proposed cost of at least $US368 billion. Public policy interest in the AUKUS submarine saga is now being propelled by doubts…

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 00:05 Source

NSW Premier Chris Minns Tweeted the following on Tuesday bemoaning Sydney’s deepening housing crisis: Minns cites NSW Productivity Commission analysis released last month bemoaning that young families are abandoning Sydney because they cannot afford housing: We can all agree that Sydney’s housing market is stuffed. Sydney’s rental prices are by far the most expensive in

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 22:11 Source

By James Moore   There was a line, but we pretended it did not exist. That was the best way to get through each day as we came of age. In our factory town, there were the laborers and the management, and the families in our neighborhood supplied the muscle and bone to build the cars…

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Your Democracy Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 20:34 Source

Part II: Al-Aqsa Flood, or People’s War in the New Era

Mao Zedong says: the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. His theorizing on guerrilla warfare can be described as the flea war.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 20:03 Source

Last month, former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov was arrested and charged for allegedly fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 20:00 Source

With many Australian investors under-invested in international shares, this is a reminder of why and how you can get international exposure. Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Chief Strategist, David Llewellyn-Smith, run through the top reasons to own international shares at this point in the cycle.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 18:29 Source

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 17:30 Source

Asian share markets are putting in very mixed sessions as the trading week continues with currency markets absorbing the slightly stronger than expected US inflation print from overnight. Wall Street is looking to open slightly higher despite the mixed mood with the USD finding some lost ground but Euro and Pound Sterling are firming heading

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