Ukraine is ready to launch its long-awaited offensive, President Vladimir Zelensky told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in an interview published on Saturday. He did not reveal the exact date, but said Kiev can no longer “wait for months.”
"My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work. I've embarked on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.”
In September, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation—established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 1993—opened the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to spotlight the plight of the alleged 100 million victims of Communist ideology.
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The AFR View released an editorial this week asserting that “Australia’s housing affordability crisis is due to the supply side, stupid.” That, The AFR claimed, is the lesson policymakers must learn, according to research from former Reserve Bank economist Tony Richards. The crux of Richards’ argument was that, in the 20 years leading up to
DXY rebounded Friday night with tearaway jobs: AUD did too: as China readies property stimulus: Commodoties popped: Miners roared: Even junk got a fillip: As the Treasury curve was run down: And stocks melted up: It is a mad, mad market interpreting everything as bullish and stopping in all and sundry. US jobs were excellent,
On Friday, ANX raised its terminal RBA cash rate to 4.35%. Credit Suisse Group AG’s Yaying Dong predicts that by September the Reserve Bank’s cash rate will be 4.6%, as services inflation becomes “much more entrenched.” Stephen Anthony, an economist who has worked for the International Monetary Fund and the Australian Treasury, predicts a longer
Former RBA governor Ian Macfarlane this week warned that the fixed rate ‘mortgage cliff’ poses a serious concern for Australian households and the financial system, and may require intervention from regulator APRA and the federal government. “It will be resolved by the bank’s customer – the borrower – taking a haircut, probably APRA bending a
I promise this will be the last examination of the idiocy of Gerard Rennick, at least for a while. The first effort in dealing with his idiocy was stuff that was available in the media1, while the second was an examination of his speech in parliament on the Climate Change Bill 20222. This third instalment is a continuation of the latter, as Rennick’s speech3 was too long and the instances of idiocy too numerous to cover in an essay of reasonable length. So, here we go again.
The lower house of Switzerland’s parliament has voted against a proposed amendment to the national War Materiel Act that would allow Swiss weapons to be re-exported to Ukraine from third countries. The US and several European nations have repeatedly criticized Bern for its refusal to play a more active role in supporting Kiev.