International Reading: EU Freezes U.S. Trade Deal After Trump’s Unhinged Davos Speech – New Republic Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns – Futurism The U.S. debt now equals $229,000 per household—and a hefty tax hike looms as the most probable outcome – Fortune ‘This is sell America’ — U.S. dollar, Treasury
The grim truth is that almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2026
The Australian government’s legislation seeking to ban access to social media for people under 16 has received plenty of attention in International media, mostly leading with the government’s that 4.7 million accounts were banned or deactivated when the legislation came into effect. Rather less attention has been paid to discussion of the outcome within Australia, where the consensus is that there has been very little effect for most.
Asian share markets pivoted around inflation prints and other macro news as the chaos from Davos dies down although the TACO trade remains in play. The USD remains under pressure against almost all major undollars particularly antipodean with the Australian dollar pushing through resistance to head above the 68 cent level while bond market stress
The latest data from Stats NZ reveals that immigration into New Zealand remains historically low, with only 10,691 net migrants landing in the year to November 2025: This level of net overseas migration is well below the decade average of 49,000 and is a fraction of the circa 130,000 peak migration recorded in 2023. Arrivals
That gold has not come off post-Greenland tells us it is now in the blowoff phase. If gold has become attached to the mind of the American madman, then this is going to be epic. RSI at 95 is mad. Vol is entering blowoff. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Can’t buy this, alas, even if the
Claims and promises of carbon offset schemes are falling deep into the category of being ‘too good to be true’.
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This is my fourteenth year of working from home. I brew my coffee, and when I need a hit while driving, I almost always purchase a cheap $2 coffee from a service station or convenience store. While travelling around New South Wales and regional Victoria over the Christmas break, I visited several cafés and was
Westpac is unmoved by the good jobs report. The December LFS clearly landed on the firmer side and the wash-up for the last few months suggests that the ‘gradual softening’ narrative, which characterised the bulk of last year, paused or completely halted. This leaves us with the question of whether further gradual softening is still