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Your Democracy Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 05:55 Source

The US, UK and other Western nations that continue to supply weapons to West Jerusalem are equally responsible for the Israeli “genocide” in Gaza, Roger Waters, British rock legend and co-founder of the band Pink Floyd, has said.

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Club Troppo Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 22:28 Source

You might have seen the picture above. It’s the Tacoma Narrows bridge which collapsed a few weeks after being built. Why? Well what you can see here is the perturbations from the wind being amplified by the suspension system on … Continue reading →

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 06:44 Source

The World Bank’s Reboot Development report has belatedly confirmed what scientists have warned for decades: humanity is breaching the safe operating limits of the Earth.

Air, water, forests and oceans, the very foundations of life are unravelling under the pressure of unrestrained growth. Six of nine planetary boundaries have already been crossed.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 05:55 Source

Thousands of people in central Berlin were ordered to evacuate on Thursday evening after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered in the Spree River.

Police set up a security perimeter of 500 meters in a densely populated area in the center of the German capital.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 00:10 Source

This week, Cotality released data, based on around 97,000 resales, showing that 94.8% of sellers made a nominal profit across Australia in Q2 2025. The median profit on sale also hit a record high of $315,000, up from $305,000 in the previous quarter. New South Wales, which is home to the nation’s most expensive homes,

The post Aussies cash in on house price boom appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Thousands of people are cancelling their Disney, Hulu, and ESPN subscriptions! – AZ Central TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill – Tech Dirt Jerome Powell says the Gen Z hiring nightmare is real: ‘Kids coming out of college…are having a hard time finding

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 19, 2025 - 16:18 Source

Queenscliff sunrise   AUD/USD     EUR/USD     USD/JPY     GBP/USD     Gold     WTI     Brent     Australia 200     US S&P 500     UK 100     Japan 225  

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 19, 2025 - 14:00 Source

On Thursday, Stats NZ released the Q2 national accounts, which revealed a sharper-than-expected decline in real GDP. New Zealand’s GDP declined 0.9% in the June 2025 quarter and was down 1.1% year over year. For the third consecutive quarter, annual GDP fell. The following chart from Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro shows that New Zealand’s

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 19, 2025 - 13:30 Source

With the release of the latest national accounts data showing that household consumption had grown by 0.9% in inflation-adjusted terms and the ABS Household Spending Indicator showing spending up by 0.5% MoM in July and up 5.1% YoY, some are questioning whether rate cuts are working. Before we get into the numbers detailing how rate

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 19, 2025 - 13:00 Source

To say that things have gone wrong for the Coalition after taking a 52% to 48% two-party preferred lead into the run-up to May’s federal election would be an understatement. Between a series of major unforced political errors and having their policy platform, which was effectively crafted with crayon, poorly received by the electorate, the

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 19, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Luke Yeaman, Chief Economist at CBA, penned a report on the Australian federal budget, which “is projected to return to deficit over the next decade”. While “tax receipts are strong”, Yeaman notes that “structural spending has lifted to levels rarely seen in Australia outside of major economic shocks”. While spending pressures are evident across most

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