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Your Democracy Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 06:40 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 05:55 Source

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 04:44 Source

 

HOW MUCH WE KNOW IS OFTEN DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH "THEY" WANT US TO KNOW... "THEY" ARE THE CONTROLLER OF THE "GAME"... THE DEMOCRACY IDEAL IS THUS RIGGED BY WHAT THEY TELL US TO THINK. 

NOT SO STRANGELY, THE EPSTEIN'S CLIENT LIST FILE COULD BE LINKED TO Jeffery Epstein’s funding established Harvard’s Program of Evolutionary Dynamics

 

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Trump 2.0 is “Hoover 3.0.” GDP growth under Trump 1 was the worst since Hoover. But with tariffs, he’s now beating his own record. – Independent Social Security Predicted to Run Out of Money Sooner Due to Trump Bill – Newsweek Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries –

The post Weekend reading and MB media appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Friday, August 8, 2025 - 18:25 Source

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is urging the public to back his drastic public spending cuts, warning that the country’s debt is growing by €5,000 ($5,784) every second.

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Your Democracy Friday, August 8, 2025 - 18:05 Source

A ballot floats through the air like a mechanical butterfly, delicate in descent, but once it touches ground, everything freezes. The jungle goes mute. The city forgets its language.

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Club Troppo Friday, August 8, 2025 - 16:38 Source

I am about to break my indication that I am unlikely to post again until after Jen’s death.

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 8, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are having a poor final session for the week although Japanese shares are seeing a big bid in response to tariff reversals while the latest BOJ meeting summary was met with appreciation. Yen was relatively steady against USD but other currency pairs continue to push the once mighty King dollar down again

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Club Troppo Friday, August 8, 2025 - 14:53 Source

Troppo readers may be wondering why I haven’t been blogging lately, after making a comeback several months ago after a long absence. The reason is that my wife Jen is in hospital dying from ovarian cancer.

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 8, 2025 - 14:00 Source

By Stephen Saunders  Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the Coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net zero cult.  Albanese Labor enjoys a masochistic relationship with the pro-China United Nations. Following UN open-borders precepts, massive immigration induces 75-80% of our (unnecessary) population growth. It is nearly as silly as the

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 8, 2025 - 13:30 Source

One of the negative side effects of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which took effect in 2005, was that it increased patent and copyright terms, raising the price of drugs and copyrighted products. Thomas Faunce of ANU assessed that AUSFTA “undermined Australia’s PBS” by “allowing the US to alter the basic processes of

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 8, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Goldman shows why Australia’s rental shock isn’t over. Weekly data from SQM suggest growth has picked up somewhat over recent months (Exhibit 6). The SQM data tends to lead CPI rent inflation, given SQM measures average rents across the flow of newly advertised properties, whereas the ABS measures rents across the entire stock of rental

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