The Great Chinese Depression is in full swing. Property sales are catastrophic in the new year. The secondary market looks like a run for the exits. As prices fall relentlessly. Energy consumption is better but only due to the weather. China is at peak oil. Fiscal is booming. But building is going backwards. The boom
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Envision’s Chifeng project has been recognised by the World Economic Forum as a leading global green hydrogen model.
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The ferrous jaws have to close. Sorry! Steel data is mixed. Mysteel demand is up, but only because CNY is three weeks later this year. MySteel production data is dead flat. But, again, arguably down YOY seasonally adjusted. WorldSteel ended the year with a whimper. World crude steel production for the 70 countries reporting to
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No matter how hard you try. No matter how many facts you put in its way. The fake left will never acknowledge the terrible truth. It was they who abandoned class politics for culture wars and created the populist right in the process. It’s not rocket surgery, but central to fake left ideology is the
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For as long as I can remember, the date of Australia Day has been a source of controversy, with ‘Invasion Day’ protests taking place year after year. But recent polling from Resolve suggests that public opinion has shifted significantly toward the date remaining on the 26th of January. According to Resolve, 68% of Australian voters
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Australia’s alliance with the United States is no longer reliable, and clinging to it now risks Australia’s interests and values. The case for a deliberate, staged Plan B begins with strategic autonomy – and an overdue reckoning with extended nuclear deterrence.
Right-wing campaign groups and Coalition MPs are again using Australia Day to drive petitions, wedge politics and anti-elite rhetoric. This year’s campaign is being amplified by paid digital ads, ARC grant outrage and calls to “legislate the date”.
Washington and Kiev have discussed several options for ending the Ukraine conflict, including the creation of a demilitarized zone or the deployment of neutral peacekeepers to the Kiev-controlled parts of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), The New York Times has said. The options were reportedly brought up earlier this week at trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Russian officials.
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains.
In 2024, the NSW Productivity and Equality Commission warned that high housing costs were causing a “brain drain” among 30- to 40-year-olds in Sydney. The NSW Productivity and Equality Commission estimated that Sydney lost around 35,000 persons aged 30 to 40 between 2016 and 2021. According to the most recent quarterly population figures from the
Gunnamatta.Molva · Deep T Australia Day 2026 final Ahead of the Australia Day long weekend Deep T spoke about Australian demand and interest rate dynamics, and the relationship of global events to domestic policymaking concerns. During the discussion he traverses some of the implications of actions by US President Trump, and the ways in
The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has ridiculed the administration of US President Donald Trump for using the popular ‘Nihilist penguin’ meme to promote its campaign to gain control of Greenland.
On Saturday, the White House’s page on X decided to exploit the hype around the meme, which features a lone Adelie penguin abandoning his colony to walk towards distant icy mountains.
Trump, more than a decisive player, is a symptom of the changing times.
While December itself was weak, the 12 months ending on 31 December were a good year for international stocks. Being overweight internationally, with a healthy exposure to AI, our portfolios all outperformed their benchmarks. Our international fund finished up 20%, and our Australian fund finished up around 9%. Our tactical growth finished up around 11%.