Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and distressed debt manager Jonathan Rochford run through the problems facing Australia and it’s tumble down the productivity tables. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund,
With the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement on Monetary Policy last week, the media focus was swiftly placed squarely upon the RBA’s forecast that productivity growth would be anaemic 0.7% per year on a long-term time horizon. But buried in the RBA’s lengthy forecast table was perhaps an even more
Last week, during a video posted on YouTube for the War Abolisher Awards, Roger Waters shared a new song titled "Sumud."
SUMUD
There is a word in Arabic
Sumud
It means
Steadfast
Perseverance
Particularly
In Resistance
To the occupation of your homeland
I just want that thing
When voices join in harmony
And in that fleeting moment
DXY is refusing to go away. AUD is going away. CNY not. I’m wary of gold here. Metals dead cat. Miners plain dead. EM rolling. Junk doesn’t care. Yields are falling in a growth scare. Stocks could catch that bug. At issue is a Fed that the market has gotten wrong. In their discussion of
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Growth! S&P flash PMI. Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 54.9 (Jul: Index, sa, >50 = growth m/m % qr/qr 53.8) Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index: 55.1 (Jul: 54.1) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI: 52.9 (Jul: 51.3) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI Output Index: 53.9 (Jul: 52.3) Australia’s business activity growth accelerated midway through the
Overnight saw Wall Street stumble again, as big tech stocks couldn’t do the heavy lifting while European markets also pulled back slightly although the rising FTSE was an outsider. The release of the latest FOMC meeting minutes saw them highlight inflation and tariff risks with politics pushing in again as the Trump regime places pressure
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I think I am in a bad dream and soon I will wake and find Donald J. Trump didn’t happen.
I listen to hours of podcasts where pundits try to make sense of this creature. Like Atlas, he holds the world on his shoulders. Will he be doomed like the Titan God or smash us all before he is done?
US President Donald Trump has called Benjamin Netanyahu “a war hero” as the Israeli prime minister faces a global backlash over the Gaza humanitarian crisis and the Jewish state’s continued military campaign in the Palestinian enclave.
In an interview with conservative commentator Mark Levin on Tuesday, Trump called Netanyahu “a good man”who he said is “there fighting.”
Putin's wins keep piling up as Trump's Alaska Summit reveals the extent of Ukraine's defeat at the hands of Russia says geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar. This video breaks down the significance of the summit sending shockwaves across the world as the Ukraine war winds down.
Pepe Escobar: Putin’s Peace BOMBSHELL Breaks Trump, Ukraine’s Defeat Now Inevitable
Asian share markets are mainly down across the board as risk sentiment continues to shift further into negative space as we all await the Jackson Hole conference on Friday with Fed Chair Powell expected to make some comments regarding the actual trajectory of the US economy before he likely gets fired. The RBNZ cut rates
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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.
The Australian recently published Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) data showing that there is an abundance of applicants per job. This suggested that concerns surrounding labour shortages are overblown. At the aggregate economy level, there were 29.3 applications per vacancy, 9.4 qualified applicants per vacancy and 4 suitable applicants per vacancy: As illustrated below by Justin
