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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 14:14 Source

The Albanese government has responded to widespread concerns and dumped its proposal to tax unrealised gains on superannuation balances of above $3 million without indexation. Instead, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the following significant changes to the Division 296 extra tax on superannuation balances: The tax will no longer apply to unrealised gains. This was poorly designed

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 14:00 Source

Roy Morgan has released its labour force estimates for September, which reported a solid decline in both unemployment and underemployment. According to Roy Morgan, unemployment decreased by 37,000 to 1,739,000 (down 0.3% to 10.8% of the workforce) while under-employment dropped 243,000 to 1,499,000 (down 1.6% to 9.3%). However, as illustrated below, both unemployment and underemployment

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THE BLOT REPORT Monday, October 13, 2025 - 13:55 Source

Everyone knows that politicians and their supporters lie. Not long after I began this blog in early 2017, I wrote a piece about how politicians lie and I gave some examples of the different types of lying. They include such types as barefaced lies, butler lies, coverups, lying by omission, false advertising and several others1.

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Michael Hartnett at BofA has good news for Australia. Zeitgeist:“Having lunch with X and he is asking should he invest in physical gold or silver or is it too late as his wine investments have been tanking?”–brother-in-law. The Price is Right: price action since Fed cut good for cash-needy not-for-profit tech(XBI, ARKK), bad for rate-sensitive

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Update: Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced this afternoon that Labor has dumped its unrealised superannuation tax proposal, as well as made several other worthwhile changes. A full breakdown of these changes is available here. Original article below: ———————————————————————————————– The head of Treasury’s revenue group, Diane Brown, has told Senate estimates that the Prime Minister’s office had

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Not that it was ever really a serious push, and paltry efforts make for paltry returns. Golden Week sales are in and pfft. Domestic interregional passenger travel rose 6.2% year over year but major merchants’ and caterers’ retail sales gained just 2.7% year over year. This is still down 2.6% versus pre-COVID. Overall, Golden Week

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Cheeseburger Gothic Monday, October 13, 2025 - 12:02 Source

I just spent a very satisfying hour entering every verified instance of Anthropic stealing my books to train their AI into the official settlement claim site. Not so satisfying? I only had five claims to make because my useless publishers didn’t register the copyright of most of my books.

I have no idea what sort of payout I’ll get, but the early reports are talking about a couple of grand for each title. Some peeps are holding out for more, but of course, doing that risks getting nothing.

So I’mma just take my windfall now and walk away, I reckon.

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 12:00 Source

Last week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock was grilled by Greens senator Nick McKim about the RBA’s role in the housing crisis. “The $400 billion that the RBA printed in the early year or two of COVID and effectively handed over to retail banks, who then turn around and lend it into

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:30 Source

From the Market Ear: Here we go SPX trading below trend channel lows for the first time since the latest bull started. Note we are below the 21 day. 50 day comes in at 6600 (futures). We outlined the fading momentum earlier this week, but first let’s see how this closes today. NASDAQ technicals NASDAQ

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Your Democracy Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:12 Source

As he boarded the night train to Ukraine, Boris Johnson had the usual entourage of aides and bodyguards – plus the man who had given him £1m.

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The Queensland government has significantly undermined the Albanese government’s ambitious 62% to 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 by extending the lifespan of the state’s coal-fired generation until the mid-2040s or later. Queensland Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki released the Liberal National Party government’s five-year energy road map on Friday. It called for the

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xkcd.com Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:00 Source

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 10:30 Source

There is justice in the world, after all. Santos’ GLNG gas export venture in Queensland is emerging as likely to be the biggest casualty in the reforms expected from Labor’s review of the east coast gas market rules, with one analyst estimating it could face a hit of up to several hundred million dollars a

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