UNFORTUNATELY, THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS TOO REAL... IT COULD BE A SPOOF — OR WELL DISGUISED SATIRE AS FAR AS I COULD MAKE IT... BUT.....
I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century or two. That distant prospect is producing lots of advocacy for policies to increase birth rates right now.
Friday night saw Wall Street return from its short Thanksgiving break and aside from some technical difficulties trading was bullish across the major indicies, with European stock markets also lifting into the month end. All eyes are still on the Fed’s December meeting where a rate cut is a given, with USD pulling back again
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Ben was joined by Sarah Cameron from Griffith University, to discuss the results of the 2025 Australian Election Study, including Peter Dutton’s unpopularity, foreign policy, voter dealignment, and how the vote splits by gender, generation and whether people own their own home.
DXY held, but the uptrend looks set to be tested. AUD is ready to rise. CNY supportive. Gold whoa! Metals mania returns. The chosen one. EM lagging. EM junk warning. Yields firmed. Stocks too. Goldman reckons DXY is ready to fall meaningfully. We believe that as the US data backlog is slowly cleared it will
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Only joining NATO, hosting nuclear weapons, or accepting a major foreign military force can truly guarantee Ukraine’s security, ex-top general Valery has claimed.
Ukraine’s former armed forces commander-in-chief made the remarks in a piece run by The Telegraph on Saturday.
In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
Last week, Cotality released its housing affordability report for the September quarter of 2025, which revealed that rental affordability has hit its lowest level on record. The percentage of income required to meet advertised rents on the median home hit a record high of 33.4% in the September quarter, up from 26.2% five years earlier.
By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA: Australian headline inflation surprised to the upside, accelerating 3.8% through the year to October. The policy relevant trimmed mean measure increased to 3.3%/yr. The total volume of capex also recorded a strong turnaround, up 6.4% in Q3 25. Construction work done fell 0.7%/qtr, driven down by a decline
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The cockroach saw my shadow
And knew death was coming his way
Equipped with a shoe a hammer and a spray
I was tricked when he crawled into a hollow
Bastard
Through the floorboards behind the old wardrobe
That had never moved since dad had died abroad
While raking the dust with my panhandle
I found an old badge that had seen battle
Weirdo