If you want further evidence that the education export industry is a giant migration scam, look no further than the latest report on “phantom” students from The Australian: Foreign students from Africa, Pakistan and India have been reported missing from universities… Phantom students have been exposed by the Queensland University of Technology, which revealed nearly
The Market Ear on the chaos. Show me the trend SPX has mostly been frustrating everybody. Huge volatility, no direction. Source: Refinitiv Did they front run the crash? The aggregate selling from systematics has been huge. The question is whether they front ran the SPX move lower, discounting a bigger bear than realized? Source: GS
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Australia’s states often swing in different ways, with trends noticeable at the state level rather than just at the state or regional level. For this reason, I usually choose to measure 2PP results against the state result, rather than the national result.
At the 2010 federal election, the Coalition gained swings in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, but Labor actually gained ground in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
DXY is back. EUR splat. AUD follows EUR. Lead boots stuck. Bretton Woods II firming hit gold. Metals did better. Big mining=big bear. EM yawn. Junk cancels recession. Curve flattened. Stocks to the moon. It’s not hard to see why the child president is in a panicked reversal. Check out these internal from the Richmond
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As the Trump regime folds faster than a dodgy poor chair on its tariff tirade against China, risk sentiment is bouncing back across most but not all markets with US and European stocks surging overnight while the USD firmed against the undollars. However, bond markets remain in flux with the 10 year Treasury yield almost
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The president is bringing out the differences between political cultures and traditions in Australia and the US, especially in attitudes towards what government can and should do.
Donald Trump is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people. Mad king, tariff tyrant, spoiler of world orders, trasher of international rules. And still a hero to some.
"If I were president, I would stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Definitively.
First, I would apologize to all the widows, orphans, tortured people, those who fell into poverty, and the millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Senior opposition figure Andrew Hastie has warned Australia's long-standing military alliance with the United States faces uncertainty under President Donald Trump's "unpredictable" America First agenda.
Young adults in the United States are experiencing anxiety and depression at twice the rate of teens, with more than half reporting that their lives lack meaning or purpose, according to a new report from Harvard University.
The world's coral reefs are going through the most intense bleaching event ever recorded, with 84% of them now affected, scientific authorities announced on Wednesday.
On every metric, Australian housing is unaffordable. At the end of 2024, the national dwelling price-to-income ratio was 8.0, up from a 20-year average of 6.7 and nearly double the level of the early 2000s. The number of years taken for a median-income household to save a deposit on a median-priced home was 10.6, up
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The Trump administration said on Tuesday that the 145 percent tariffs imposed on Chinese imports will eventually "come down substantially" while expressing optimism about future talks to reach a US-China trade deal, US media reported.