Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko explores how trade shapes the rise of states, the crisis of U.S. hegemony, and the birth of a new global order.
FRED TURNER, Editor
Asian equity markets are generally up with the lack of a lead tonight as Wall Street will be closed for thanksgiving (thanking the AI bubble that is stuffing the stock market turkey that it is). Movement has been more regional as Chinese markets react to the latest and slow industrial production numbers while locally capex
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Undoubtedly, the deterioration in quality has been obvious for years in eastern metropolitan dailies and continues. However, it is important to note that the drivers of the decline have changed marginally. A few months ago, the parent company of the papers sold Domain to the American Costar Group. This raises the question of why Nine
Just how corrupt is Albo? Everybody wants him to crush the gas cartel: 80% of Australians, all of industry and most miners, even the gas cartel itself. Now, farmers. Santos’s blighted Narrabri gas project is facing a new hurdle, with the country’s largest state farming body threatening legal action in a bid to force the state and
By Stephen Saunders The Coalition’s touted policy shifts enable Albanese to sail on with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepening power bills. Nominally the Liberal Party mantra is “individual freedom and free enterprise”. With immigration, housing, energy, employment, “United Nations” Labor is interventionist, dirigiste, statist. Donning that Joy Division T-shirt, former student-activist Albanese leads
TechnologyOne boss Ed Chung has rejected claims that restrictive council planning red tape is the source of Australia’s structural housing shortage and crisis. TechnologyOne supplies software to a vast majority of Australian local governments, and Chung argues that councils are being “unfairly targeted” as the primary roadblock to housing supply. “I think local government is
In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by Leith Van Onselen to break down the Pacific’s growing inflation divide—why the U.S. Federal Reserve is edging toward cuts while the Reserve Bank of Australia is holding firm, what’s really driving the split beneath the headline CPI numbers, and what this
The Australian Financial Review recently reported that the cost of the NDIS continues to escalate. According to the latest data, the cost growth in NDIS plans was 9.5% year-on-year in the September quarter, with expense growth up by 10.1%. Examining these numbers clearly warranted a closer look at the system’s participant growth. Since the end
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