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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 14:00 Source

As predictable as the sun. Daily Mail. Supporters of an anti-immigration rally are being warned not to attend the massive protest, with politicians branding the movement as having ‘no place’ in Australia. March for Australia is organising the protests that will take place on August 31 in several capital cities, including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Market Forces is some kind of green money lobbyist. It has produced a cracking report on Aussie gas, inadvertently illustrating that market reforms are vital to stabilise Aussie gas usage. First, the report shows that it is gas that most uses gas. Next, it shows where industrial gas usage goes. Finally, it illustrates that 10%

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 13:00 Source

The second day of the Canberra productivity roundtable will reportedly debate how to reduce the backlog of development projects awaiting environmental approval. Danielle Wood, chair of the Productivity Commission (PC), will address roundtable attendees in the morning in her session titled “Better Regulations and Approvals”. Her speech is likely to illustrate how environmental approvals slow

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 12:30 Source

The ferrous complex is looking rather weak suddenly. Part of it is the greatest housing crash in the history of the cosmos is getting worse, not better. Goldman. Hmmm… Inventory rising again. Completions are better, but no cigar. Prices, oh dear, as folks abandon property portfolios. No end in sight.  

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 12:00 Source

I suppose you can only ignore the number one input into the immigration-led economy for so long. Even if the Productivity Commission can produce five enormous reports (which are going to be roundly ignored) without mentioning it. The Australian. Business and unions have brawled on the first day of the economic reform roundtable over a

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Your Democracy Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 11:54 Source

Australia’s best-known Carbon Capture & Storage plant captures a mere fraction of the total emissions it generates. David McEwen explains.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 11:30 Source

Big. The Market Ear. CAPEX boom and… Will this time be different? Source: BCA Source: BCA This time really different In a very extreme way. Authers: “It’s unheard of for 2% of the index’s companies to account for virtually 40% of its value”. Source: Bloomberg/Authers But they are magnificent The big ones making the big bucks.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Australian home prices hit a fresh record high in July, with more growth expected following the latest interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The Westpac Consumer Sentiment Index, released on Tuesday, suggested that Australians have become extremely bullish on house prices, expecting significant increases in the months ahead. As illustrated below

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Your Democracy Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:57 Source

I want to share with you an email I received today from someone who fancies their self as an astute analyst. This person falls far short of astute in my opinion, but the thinking revealed in the email does reflect the views held by many Americans with respect to what happened today in Washington when Trump met with Zelensky and his European pimps.

 

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