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Your Democracy Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 21:23 Source

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 12:48 Source

The first car I ever drove was my parents’ red and white EH Holden station wagon in which I started to learn to drive, with my father partly terrified in the front passenger’s seat. It had a radio which, when I could, was mostly tuned to whichever AM radio station played the music I liked (Beatles, Rolling Stones, and suchlike). My first car was a white second hand Mazda 1300 with whitewall tyres and rust in the bottom of all the doors. It had a very tinny radio (worse than that in the EH) but no cassette player.

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Renew Economy Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 10:54 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 08:17 Source

In Asian media this week: Trump says he spoke to Modi but India denies call took place. Plus: Japan’s new coalition a shift to the right; Timor Leste finally gets seat at regional table; Life worse than death on Myanmar scam farm; Prabowo – control, populism and diminished accountability; Sri Lanka suffers from world’s worst plastics spill.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 06:55 Source

Ukraine’s European backers made no official statements on granting Kiev access to long-range weaponry following a meeting in London on Friday.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Dutch and Danish counterparts Dick Schoof and Mette Frederiksen attended the meeting devoted to additional military support for Kiev.

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Your Democracy Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 05:44 Source

There was – or seemed to be – hope for peace for a brief moment. And how deceptive it turned out to be. I was among those cautiously optimistic when we were told just over a week ago that the presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, had a long and useful phone conversation and were planning to meet in person again.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 00:20 Source

The Albanese government launched its 5% deposit scheme for first-home buyers at the start of the month. The First Home Guarantee scheme allows an uncapped number of first-home buyers to purchase a home using only a 5% deposit, provided they do not exceed the generous price caps illustrated in the following table. For every home

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MacroBusiness Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: The Mother of All Corruption: Is $300 Million the Largest Bribe In Human History ?: White House releases donor list for Trump ballroom amid East Wing demolition – The Hill White House ballroom update: Trump raises price by $100 million – News Week Beyond Meat is falling back to earth after rallying 1,300%

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 20:48 Source
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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 17:59 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 17:40 Source

US President Donald Trump has announced the suspension of all trade talks with Canada, accusing Ottawa of distributing fake ads against tariffs.

"Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs … Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED," Trump said on Truth Social on Thursday.

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 16:28 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 16:00 Source

Risk markets are again pivoting on more tantrums from the Oval Office as the Trump regime lashes out at Canada and Venezuela via the usual online 12-year old boy tantrums from the Mango Mussolini. Asian share markets brushed off the histrionics and are seeing strong bids to finish the trading week but all eyes will

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 15:23 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 14:00 Source

Domain has published its home price figures for the September quarter, which show that the median house price in Sydney reached a record high of $1,751,728 following a 6.3% annual increase. Sydney units also increased to a record high of $840,422 following a softer 2.7% annual increase. As shown in the table below from Domain,

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 13:30 Source

As we know, the RBA is intellectually bankrupt. It refuses point-blank to ever mention immigration as a macro input, making it impossible to forecast wage growth and inflation. This has now reached such a point of such absurdity that a new regime RBA, that was ushered in for precisely the failure described above, has become

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 13:00 Source

By Stephen Saunders As the Labor-Liberal uni-party institutionalises mass migration and fake net zero, the March for Australia protests continue. After October 19, the next one is Australia Day. In Australia, the distinction between the “left” and “right” wings is less and less useful. It’s theatre. The more useful distinction is the top 1-20% versus

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 12:30 Source

The Market Ear has more. The “healthy” reset 1. Gold has pulled back into key support at $3,944–4,000, likely forming the base of a new consolidation within an ongoing bull trend according to JPM’s commodities team. 2. The bank expects central banks and Chinese buyers to provide solid dip demand as stretched investor positioning eases.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 12:00 Source

I reported on Thursday how New Zealand’s rental growth has plummeted in response to the sharp decline in net overseas migration, which fell to only 10,628 in the year to August 2025, down from a decade average of 49,000. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the collapse in net migration has helped

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:50 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:30 Source

When the Trump administration and Albanese government inked a deal for the U.S. and Australian governments to invest $4.6 billion ($3 billion USD) in critical minerals projects across Australia, the announcement came with something of an added bonus for the U.S. shortly after: a claimed commitment that Australian superannuation funds would invest “almost $1 trillion”

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Your Democracy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:08 Source

Washington’s nine-month pause on new restrictions against Russia has come to an end. President Donald Trump has imposed his first sanctions of his second term – targeting two of Russia’s biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, along with their subsidiaries.

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:02 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:00 Source

China HRC prices keep falling, indicating hot metal output is too high and must be cut to restore steel mill margins. Iron ore is on borrowed time while this dynamic persists. The Pilbara killer cometh. The Simandou project, the world’s largest source of untapped open-pit iron ore of the highest iron content located in Guinea,

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xkcd.com Friday, October 24, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.

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Renew Economy Friday, October 24, 2025 - 10:34 Source
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