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On Monday, I spoke to Ben Davis on Brisbane Radio 4BC Mornings to unpack the housing policies announced by Labor and the Coalition over the weekend. I described these as “some of the worst policy making I’ve seen in my 47 years of life”. I added that Australian “households are among the most indebted in

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Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, published research on the record boom in international students and temporary migrants. Dr You noted that there were a record 111,740 net permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia in February 2025, a daily average of 3,991. “That’s approximately 3 arrivals a minute on a net

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DXY is at critical support. AUD is a bipolar maniac. Concrete boots are hanging in. Gold and oil came off. The copper market is wrecked. Mining bear market rock solid. EM bounce. Junk off the worst. Yields eased, doubtless on the Fed’s calming words Friday. Stocks firmed. Now what? DXY is unhinged from Treasuries. While

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Risk sentiment is slowly lifting and stock volatility moving lower but all eyes must remain on global bond markets and the USD as the big shift is happening beyond the equity market headlines. The short covering rally on Wall Street could continue for a little longer but USD is still slowly losing its reserve currency

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Coalition given worst score yet for climate and renewables policies, Labor scrapes a pass, Greens do best and some independents also score well.

Gas is the talk of the town, while nuclear is not, but a massive increase in solar power generation capacity has already put Australia on the fast track to a 100% renewable energy future. Solar cell engineer Andrew Blakers explains.

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  13th April 2025

The American Empire is still fighting to be top dog — especially under Trump, who has inherited a declining empire from the Democrats… Some “democrat”-inclined people are still saying that the economy under Biden was solid, but in fact “Bidenomics” were on the skids, due to the increasingly unmanageable HUGE deficit being used to “finance the cushions”… 

Joining too many dots, mainly Jewish….

BY GUS LEONISKY

Finally a relatively non-volatile trading session today although the newsflow remains weird with more Trumpian two-steps around tariffs on Chinese goods, while all eyes remain on the canary in the mine – the bond markets. The USD is still slowly weakening as it loses its reserve currency status with almost all the majors including gold

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Fortescue inks fresh deal in support of emissions-free shipping, chartering an ammonia-powered vessel to transport iron ore from the Pilbara to China and the world.

An oft-repeated mantra from the Trump regime is that tariffs in Trump’s first term barely affected inflation. Which is true. But the inflation environment was very different. The latest inflation data was out at the end of last week, and while it may have beaten expectations, it is not the type of inflation numbers that

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