Human intellectual abilities such as reasoning and problem-solving are diminishing, possibly due to increased exposure to visual media, the Financial Times (FT) has reported.
Human intelligence appeared to peak in the early 2010s and has been in decline since, the FT added, citing PISA, an international benchmarking test for 15-year-olds that includes reading, mathematics and science, and adult cognitive evaluations.
Wall Street’s rebound from Friday night continued overnight across most risk markets despite a lacklustre US retail sales print as trader’s await this week’s FOMC meeting from the Federal Reserve. European stocks continue to outperform while the USD slipped further against Euro and Pound Sterling while building somewhat against Yen although that maybe in anticipation
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The Albanese Government has jammed itself by trying to not talk about the greatest threat to Australia’s future, but has now opened itself to the charge of playing politics with security issues.
Russia has accused the United Kingdom of engaging in modern-day piracy following former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s call to seize the Russian assets that were frozen in the West as part of Ukraine-related sanctions.
In a social media post on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova likened Sunak’s position to historical acts of piracy.
DXY to the ground. AUD follows EUR. And lead boots. Alas, oil refused to break. Bonus chart! Not much room left to sell. Goldman has cornered copper. Miners meh. EM another crack. Credit is fine. No good for stocks. Curve smasher. Stocks to the moon! The impressive Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, maintained the rage as
Over the weekend, I was interviewed by Luke Grant from Radio 2GB/4BC where I dissected the policy failures that are driving the nation’s energy price shocks. Below is a summary of the topics discussed. Electricity prices soar by up to 9% Labor’s 2021 Powering Australia Plan, released prior to the last federal election, promised that
MacroBusiness has been vocal about Australia’s immigration-driven housing crisis for years. The data is unmistakable. Australia’s rental affordability has collapsed to a record low, with households required to dedicate a record share of their income to secure a rental home. Underpinning the collapse in rental affordability are surging rents, which have risen nearly 50% nationally
Dr Edmund Freud of the European Centre for Political Pathologies recently completed a secret in-depth review of world leaders for the United Nations Security Council. His reports on President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are now public, thanks to hackers, believed to be Russian, who have posted the findings on Tik-tok.
It’s green across the board here in Asia after the weekend gap with the short covering exercise on Wall Street extending across the regions share markets. The USD is failing to fight back as it remains weak against Euro and Pound Sterling although is holding against Yen this afternoon, as traders await this week’s FOMC
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European militarism on steroids is not good, eitherLacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks
