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Renew Economy Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:59 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:30 Source

From the Market Ear: Here we go SPX trading below trend channel lows for the first time since the latest bull started. Note we are below the 21 day. 50 day comes in at 6600 (futures). We outlined the fading momentum earlier this week, but first let’s see how this closes today. NASDAQ technicals NASDAQ

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Your Democracy Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:12 Source

As he boarded the night train to Ukraine, Boris Johnson had the usual entourage of aides and bodyguards – plus the man who had given him £1m.

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The Queensland government has significantly undermined the Albanese government’s ambitious 62% to 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 by extending the lifespan of the state’s coal-fired generation until the mid-2040s or later. Queensland Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki released the Liberal National Party government’s five-year energy road map on Friday. It called for the

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xkcd.com Monday, October 13, 2025 - 11:00 Source

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 10:30 Source

There is justice in the world, after all. Santos’ GLNG gas export venture in Queensland is emerging as likely to be the biggest casualty in the reforms expected from Labor’s review of the east coast gas market rules, with one analyst estimating it could face a hit of up to several hundred million dollars a

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 10:00 Source

As the debate over the impact of international students continues, the number of myths being repeated continues to grow, particularly on social media. So, rather than getting bogged down with directly addressing various narratives or making commentary on the various issues, today, the data will be doing all the talking. International Students and Housing Back

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 09:30 Source

In an address to the National Press Club, BlueScope CEO Mark Vassella warned that Australia risks following the United Kingdom’s industrial decline if the federal government fails to fix the gas market. Vassella and other industry leaders say that without cheaper gas, the federal government’s Future Made in Australia policy is doomed, and Australia will

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The Tally Room Monday, October 13, 2025 - 09:30 Source

As part of my efforts to prepare election guides for all of the upcoming elections, I have now published a guide to the 2027 NSW state election. While that election is still almost a year and a half away, the lack of redistributions in NSW (and Victoria) has allowed me to prepare guides for those elections a long way out.

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Wall Street was sent significantly lower on Friday night as the Trump regime was played again by the Chinese in the ongoing trade war, with another TACO trade brewing. After glowing up all week the NASDAQ fell back nearly 4% while the USD fell back against nearly everything and US Treasury yields retreated alongside oil

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 07:15 Source

The Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) trade is on this morning after some mollifying words overnight. President Donald Trump’s administration signaled openness Sunday to a deal with China to quell fresh trade tensions while also warning that recent export controls announced by Beijing were a major barrier to talks. Vice President JD Vance called on

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Your Democracy Monday, October 13, 2025 - 06:55 Source

In March 2023, the Australian Academy of the Humanities sounded the alarm on the decline in our understanding and knowledge of China through a report on “ Australia’s China Knowledge Capability”.

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John Quiggin Monday, October 13, 2025 - 04:40 Source

Labor looks like becoming the “natural party of government”, but in doing so, it is abandoning its traditional role as the party of initiative. In this post, I’ll discuss the first of these points

Labor as the natural party of government

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John Quiggin Monday, October 13, 2025 - 04:37 Source

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

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Your Democracy Monday, October 13, 2025 - 02:22 Source

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MacroBusiness Monday, October 13, 2025 - 00:05 Source

According to analysis from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the federal budget could face a $58 billion revenue decline if average productivity growth remains at 0.5% over the next four years. This forecast is deemed credible by economists amid criticism of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ higher estimate of 1.2%. Australia’s productivity growth has averaged only 0.1%

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Renew Economy Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 20:20 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 18:39 Source

What a difference a few months makes. The last time Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met at the White House in February, the two countries were riding high.

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Club Troppo Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 17:26 Source

No-one really knows the most cost-effective treatments for mental ill-health. But among the most promising candidates seems to be: take the dog for a walk. Illustration: A cost-effective mental resource takes a break from promoting healthy exercise and lifting spirits … Continue reading →

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MacroBusiness Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 14:48 Source

By Harry Ottley, Economist at CBA It was an exceptionally quiet week in Australia with a drop in consumer sentiment the only data of note. RBA Governor Bullock appeared before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee but kept communication very much in line with recent statements. Offshore, the US government shutdown continued, delaying key economic releases

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 09:21 Source

Weeds are destroying brickworks

Ants have more chance of survival 

Than humans trying to improve 

Unsatisfied with their unfinished nature

In times of enduring friendship

The dead come back to honour his passing

I was so tired I could not sleep 

My scooter’s battery was empty 

The machine would not start at the gate

On my way to give treasures and junk 

Night fell 

It was too late to ride 

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 06:25 Source

Unfair criticism has often been levelled at the UN. None has been so gratuitously nasty than President Trump’s 23 September 2025 General Assembly address.

Media coverage highlighted Trump’s more outrageous comments, but did not provide deep and comprehensive analysis of the policy implications of his speech.

 

Ronald C. Keith

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

On the sidelines of the recent World Public Summit held in Moscow in September, New Eastern Outlook spoke with Sabena Johannes, the President and CEO of Afritrack Angola. The talk turned out to be quite emotional and highly relevant.

 

Sabena Yohannes: “We must become a single force”    BY Yuliya Novitskaya

 

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Renew Economy Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 17:43 Source
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MacroBusiness Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 17:03 Source

The news of the week that Deloitte had somehow managed to get AI to invent references in a report, for which they harvested 400 thousand dollars, should be a warning for all of us. What it means—Field Exercise So, for this weekend, the Macrobusiness cognoscenti has a field exercise that everyone is to complete. For

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Your Democracy Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 13:57 Source

A new trailer has landed for “Australia: A History”, the upcoming three-part documentary series fronted by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, set to air on Sky News Australia next week. The series promises to chart the nation’s journey from its ancient Indigenous beginnings to its status as a modern democracy—through the eyes of one of its most divisive former leaders.

The former PM's perspective

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 11:58 Source

In March 2018, David Roberts wrote a piece in Vox bemoaning the state of the op-ed page of the New York Times; the main thrust being that these pages do not have enough diversity of opinion, but particularly, he stated that while it carries some conservatives, these authors do not reflect the madness of US conservative politics; they are “alienated from the animating force of US conservatism, which is Trumpism”1. One of the paragraphs that struck a chord with me was the following: 

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MacroBusiness Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 09:29 Source

Well, that escalated quickly. DXY fell. But AUD crashed. Gold held, oil was murdered. AI metals were deleted. The big bear is back. EM ouch. Led by junk is bearish. Despite a weak DXY , the full bond curve was bid. This will be critical as tariffs return. The stock bubble just burst. It’s not

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