Merchant.adventurers.of.london · DeepTandMisterG MB Radio 28 March 2025 After the announcement Australia would be going to the polls on Friday 28 March 2025, Deep T spoke about Australia’s economic structure and economic backdrop to the 2025 Federal election. Looking closely at the the announcement of a gas reservation policy should the LNP gain power, and
Pretoria’s diplomatic tensions with Washington have worsened following the nomination of a new ambassador by US President Donald Trump, a South African legislator has said.
The inaugural Opacity in Real Estate Ownership (OREO) Index, published this week by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) in partnership with Transparency International, has ranked Australia last in the world. The report, released on 26 March, ranks major developed nations on two key criteria: 1) scope and accessibility of real estate ownership data and 2) the
CNN — Elon Musk on Friday evening announced he has sold his social media company, X, to xAI, his artificial intelligence company.
President Donald Trump has made his fixation on Greenland abundantly clear—enough so to unnerve many of the people who live there. “I think Greenland is going to be something that maybe is in our future,” he told reporters this week, once again teasing the notion of annexation.
EU officials have demonstrated hypocrisy in how they have treated arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Russian and Israeli leaders, a political sciences professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank has told RT.
I guess calling Ursula von der Leyen’s €800 billion defence spending plan, “ReArm Europe,” as she did initially, didn’t test well – probably because Europeans are too busy wondering why there’s no money for literally anything else that isn’t a weapons buying bonanza.
So, what’s with this new name, Readiness 2030, that they’ve suddenly started using as a replacement term? And why 2030?
It was called a Budget reply, but the name was meaningless. Peter Dutton’s Thursday night effort was his election campaign pitch. Michael Pascoe reports it did have one good idea – but only one.
Last year, chief YIMBY Peter Tulip claimed that people wanting the government to run a lower (historical) immigration program to ease housing pressures are “misanthropes” that dislike migrants: Peter Tulip was interviewed on Joe Walker’s podcast, where he waxed lyrical on the need to relax planning restrictions and boost supply to solve the housing affordability
International Reading: Trump says US will ‘go as far as we have to’ to get control of Greenland – ABC It’s not just setting Teslas on fire. Now irate Americans are shoplifting from Whole Foods. – Business Insider Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos, expecting to raise $100 billion in tax revenues – AP
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Asian stock markets are having a poor finish to the trading week with most markets down amid noise around more Trump tariff nonsense, while the latest Japanese inflation figures sent local stocks sharply lower. The USD is lifting slightly against the major currency pairs, particularly Euro while the Australian dollar was pushed back below the
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