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Your Democracy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 09:05
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Ron Paul is turning 90 this month. One of the most influential political figures of his time, Paul has meant many things to many people. Here’s at least a part of what he’s meant to me. When I was 20 years old, I supported Pat Buchanan for president.
Ron Paul Was My Pat BuchananFrom ‘go, Pat, go’ to ‘Ron Paul Revolution’—and beyond. BY Jack Hunter
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MacroBusiness
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 09:00
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Well that was an interesting Friday night with the much anticipated non-farm payroll AKA US unemployment print shocking to the downside, with further revisions to prior month prints finally revealing the impact of the Trump regime’s tariff on the domestic economy. Coupled with the passing of the August 1st tariff “deadline” and King Trump spitting The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 08:16
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US Vice President J.D. Vance has revealed he has been “obsessed” with UFOs and hopes to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon in the nearest future. Vance made the admission during an episode of the Ruthless Podcast which aired on Friday, where he proclaimed his fascination with the mysterious flying objects.
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MacroBusiness
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 08:00
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I believe that the video-sharing platform YouTube is one of the greatest educational tools available. I use YouTube daily to solve a variety of problems and learn information. My 14 year-old daughter has used YouTube ‘How-to’ videos to learn arts and crafts, solve maths problems, fix her phone and computer, learn about history, learn how The post Australia is a nation of eKarens appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Renew Economy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 06:33
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John Quiggin
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 06:10
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 05:05
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At least 90,000 pro-Palestine protesters walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and into history through the pelting rain, as a larger crowd than expected used the landmark as a symbol, bringing the city to a standstill and leading police to sound the alarm of a potential crowd crush. |
Your Democracy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 04:44
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In understanding history, more is required than just a litany of facts. An explanatory framework is needed—a theory or argument concerning the significance and interrelationships between those facts, or a “model” as Robert Higgs put it: |
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Your Democracy
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 04:44
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MacroBusiness
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 00:05
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Prominent Sydney real estate agent and auctioneer Tom Panos believes that Australia is moving into a “seller’s market” following a series of highly successful auction weekends. “We’re definitely moving towards a sellers market”, Panos said in his weekend market wrap on YouTube. “It’s not quite there yet, but when you’re getting 100% out of 100, The post “Seller’s market” will push house prices higher appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 17:16
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The United Nations produces over 1,000 reports a year, but most are barely read, according to the organization’s own study into how to make its work more “impactful and coherent.” The revelation comes as the UN marks its 80th anniversary amid a deepening identity crisis. |
THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 16:19
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Very much in the news with the genocide in Gaza is the philosophy or ideology of Zionism and attempts by pro-Israel lobby groups to conflate antisemitism with antizionism, with the bogus ‘report’ to the Australian government by Jillian Segal being a case in point1. |
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THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 15:59
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 15:16
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People in Japan experienced their hottest July on record this year, with no respite in sight for some. Officials warn that the northern and western regions of the country will continue to see "severe heat" in August. Japan's average monthly temperature in July was 2.89 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for the same month, the nation's meteorological agency said on Friday. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 12:45
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Four weeks after Israel signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain on 15 September 2020, Tel Aviv’s Higher Planning Council approved 4,948 new settler units in the occupied West Bank. No public fanfare. No tanks rolled in – just signatures authorizing another layer of occupation. The first wave of expansion advanced quietly, legitimized by the language of “peace.” |
The Tally Room
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 12:00
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Tasmania’s Hare-Clark system is proportional, but it’s not purely proportional. Each division elects seven members, and results are not just about how many votes each party receives – results are dependent on how preferences flow and how votes split within each party’s ticket. Yet the Tasmanian election produced an almost perfect result when it comes to proportionality. While Tasmanian elections usually produce more proportional results than we see under other electoral systems in Australia, this one has produced the most proportional result in at least 46 years. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 10:45
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced it will cease its operations early next year after losing its budget to US President Donald Trump’s cuts. Operations will be gradually wound down over the next few months, the CPB announced on Friday. Founded in 1967, it has been responsible for stewarding over 1,500 public television and radio stations, including major US broadcasters PBS and NPR. |
Renew Economy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 09:29
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 08:37
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DXY is a flamed-out rocket. AUD chaos! AUD big short still intact. Lead boots into the pit. Gold up, oil down. Metals mixed. Mining big bear plods on. EM bust. Junk down, yields down, growth no bueno. Stocks smashed. ISM was soft. US jobs and PCE were a bad combination Thursday and Friday. PCE was The post Australian dollar catches Pox Americana appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 07:46
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 07:19
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A Republican Party social media post on Friday aimed at promoting American manufacturing has drawn ridicule online after users identified the car featured in the image as a presumably Soviet-made Lada, not a product of the US auto industry. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 05:55
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Russia Cripples NATO Armor—Australia's Abrams Rushed Into Growing Tank Graveyard! |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 04:53
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LARRY PICKERING WAS A POPULAR RIGHT WING AUSTRALIAN CARTOONIST. HERE GUS MISCHIEF ONE OF HIS MOST INCISIVE TOON ABOUT THE STATE OF THE USA IN THE 1970s. Senior members of the US Democratic Party and their benefactors are listed in the Epstein documents, X owner Elon Musk has claimed. |
Renew Economy
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 13:13
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Your Democracy
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 08:02
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Your Democracy
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 05:55
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Delhi's relationship with Moscow remains a "point of irritation" in India-US ties. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 05:06
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A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit. Question: Why are Australian institutions so silent, so quiet, in the face of obvious and evident mass slaughter, another holocaust?
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Your Democracy
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 04:44
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Donald Trump says US nuclear submarines are being repositioned in response to "provocative statements" from Russia's former president, Dmitry Medvedev. In a Truth Social post on Friday, Washington time, the US president wrote: |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 00:10
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At the end of 2024, CoreLogic (now Cotality) reported that Australia’s housing affordability—both to purchase and rent—was the worst on record, as illustrated by the graphic below. Home prices relative to incomes, the percentage of income required to service a mortgage, the number of years taken to save a deposit, and the percentage of income The post Bad news for Australian housing affordability appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 00:05
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International Reading: Beginning tomorrow, Trump Tariffs Will Affect Nearly 75 Percent of US Food Imports. – Tax Foundation How Trump’s tariffs could affect your grocery bill – The Hill Trump Ends Tariff Exemption For Small Packages – Wired Bessent: Trump Has ‘Backdoor to Privatizing Social Security’ – Mediaite The US Will Be the Biggest Loser The post Weekend reading and MB media releases appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
