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Energy retailers should be required to act in their customers’ best interests, rather than forcing consumers to constantly defend themselves against bad electricity plans.

The post The fundamental principles of the energy market are failing Australia’s households appeared first on Renew Economy.

Cotality has a rather hopeful press release. Momentum returns to the building sector The Cordell Construction Cost Index (CCCI) recorded a 1.0% increase in construction costs nationally over the December 2025 quarter, the strongest quarterly growth of the year. This marks a notable acceleration compared with the previous quarterly increases of 0.4%, 0.5%, and 0.6%,

The post Alboflation drives new home costs to the moon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

When an Australian major party loses a federal election, it produces an internal report, or, as elements of the media describe it, an autopsy of what went wrong and what may have been managed better. The report into the disastrous campaign and defeat of the Coalition was in its final stages when former Liberal Leader

The post Dutton warns of defamation risk as LNP implodes appeared first on MacroBusiness.

In 2012, the Gillard government declared that the 21st century would be the “Asian Century”, and produced a White Paper detailing its expectations for how things would play out, entitled “Australia in the Asian Century”. It included expectations such as a baseline scenario predicting China would grow at 7% each year from 2012 to 2025,

The post Why China is in deep trouble in one chart appeared first on MacroBusiness.

EPBC reforms blamed for creating enough uncertainty for global energy giants to withdraw their application for controversial carbon capture and storage project.

The post Massive carbon capture and storage project pulled from EPBC because of reforms to federal act appeared first on Renew Economy.

Washington: Australia’s reputation among US conservatives went from “beloved to shot” during the COVID pandemic, MAGA stalwart Steve Bannon says, but the relationship has been resuscitated under Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese.

Charts from TME. Penty of room for a healthy correction. Not so healthy for tech. Iiiieeeeehhhwww. Volaltity structure more bearish but not crazy by any means. There’s no rush for protection. But perhaps there should be. Err, there definitely should be. This chart is a doozy. When everybody is bullish… Be bearish. Especially as markets

The post Stocks crash without cash appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Wall Street came back from its long weekend holiday and sold off immediately in response to the EU revokation of the previous Trump-induced 2025 trade deal as the fallout from the shambles over Greenland hit all risk markets. Treasury yields spiked as European bondholders started selling off US bonds, with the 10 year up near

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Solar growth also met all of the daytime growth in electricity demand in the US, as well as some of the growth in demand in the evenings, with the help of batteries.

The post Solar accounts for three-fifths of US electricity demand growth in 2025, despite Trump’s best efforts appeared first on Renew Economy.

Global ice is melting fast, with major sea level rise and extreme heat locked in unless emissions fall sharply. The window to act is closing.

Australia’s November CPI release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that housing inflation rose by 5.2% over the year to November 2025. This made housing the single largest contributor to annual inflation in that release. The following chart from Justin Fabo at Antipodean Macro illustrates the quarterly acceleration in housing inflation, which has

The post Aussie housing inflation accelerates appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Wall Street futures fell sharply alongside the USD (and Bitcoin) while gold and undollars rose on the weekend tariff orders from the Trump regime, with the Europeans playing hardball. Asian share markets are all in the red given the risk off mood with the latest Chinese economic figures (and more importantly – population figures –

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Former regulator, Ron Ben-David argues that loyalty penalties, consumer confusion and endless rule-making all stem from a flawed market design that puts responsibility on households instead of energy retailers.

The post SwitchedOn podcast: Why energy companies should be forced to act in their customers’ best interests appeared first on Renew Economy.