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MacroBusiness Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 10:52 Source

By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA: The September quarter headline CPI materially surprised to the upside, jumping 1.3%/qtr to be 3.2% higher annually. The policy-relevant trimmed mean measure accelerated to 1.0%/qtr and 3.0%/yr. Offshore this week the FOMC and BoC cut rates by 25bp, as was widely expected. However, a more hawkish tone curtailed

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 06:44 Source

US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard has acknowledged Washington’s history of regime change but said it ended under President Donald Trump – despite his recent remarks on Iran and accusations about Venezuela.

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 04:00 Source

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 03:22 Source

Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticising the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 20:46 Source

Volodymyr Zelensky and his Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky are infamous for sacrificing Ukrainian lives to prolong fighting, Mikael Valtersson, former officer of the Swedish Armed Forces and Air Defense, tells Sputnik, commenting on the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Kupyansk encirclements.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 18:42 Source

Ukraine’s European backers will secretly meet in Madrid next week to coordinate efforts to increase support, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Friday.

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 15:54 Source

The Boyer Lectures are a series of talks by prominent Australians, presenting ideas on major social, scientific or cultural issues, and broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Radio National. The lectures began in 1959 and a couple of years later were named after Richard Boyer, the ABC board chairman who suggested them. The lectures are delivered between September and December by prominent Australians selected by the ABC board and are intended to stimulate discussion and debate on a wide range of topics1.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 06:55 Source

 

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In the history of ideas, theories occupy a pivotal place, especially those theories that promote a concrete vision of a future or critically examine the myriad dimensions of politics. Theories provide the structural framework within which a phenomenon is analyzed. It is in that context that a highly influential theory continues to animate discussions globally, especially in this world of deep polarization. That theory is the clash of civilizations.

 

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 05:22 Source

Britain’s King Charles III has stripped his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence due to sexual assault allegations and his close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 04:35 Source

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola is considering the possibility of banning access to the websites of Sputnik and RT within the networks and devices of the European Parliament, where they remain available despite EU-level restrictions, European media reported.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Chipotle CEO sounds alarm on the American economy – Yahoo USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP – Notus Binance helped Trump crypto company make billions – Independent Not a good sign: Hershey Warns of Soft Halloween Candy Sales – Bloomberg Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets

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Your Democracy Friday, October 31, 2025 - 19:02 Source

“But everyone else has one!”

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian markets are generally lower although the latest Tokyo inflation numbers saw Japanese stocks rise swiftly with another BOJ rate hike now on the cards while the outcome of the Trump-Xi summit is not inspiring confidence in other risk markets. In currency land, the USD is getting stronger again with the Australian dollar pulled back

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Renew Economy Friday, October 31, 2025 - 14:58 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro published the following chart comparing the official cash rates of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) against the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). Fabo stated on Twitter (X) that “the RBNZ often goes harder in both directions on rates”, in reference to its recent higher peak and lower trough

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Renew Economy Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:07 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Last week, I argued that Australia is the dumbest developed nation on Earth for choosing to give itself expensive and unreliable energy when it is literally a global energy superpower rich in everything other than oil. In retrospect, I should have awarded the “dumbest developed nation” prize to Germany, which stupidly chose to blow up

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30 Source

In decades now long passed, the issue of migration was largely one of practical considerations, defined by questions such as: How many new arrivals per year is viable? How many homes do we need to build? What skills base needs to be expanded? What is the right path toward integrating new arrivals into society while

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Renew Economy Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:00 Source

In the annals of wasted public investment, few attempts to build an industry can compete with the abject failure of hydrogen. $60 billion in incentives are available for hydrogen research and production, most of it sitting on the shelf, unused. Hydrogen was only ever going to be a niche industrial gas for decarbonising such things

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:30 Source

The Market Ear on equities. Running hot The tech squeeze has already hit, with MAG 5 stocks now making up 61% of U.S. GDP. Forced buying and upside panic have stretched the right tail to the breaking point—now, the question is whether the rally can hold, or if a sharp pullback is inevitable. Too much

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Housing minister Clare O’Neil continues her blame game and propaganda tour, this time taking aim at the Greens for “blocking” the construction of new homes: O’Neil’s latest attack follows the dismal dwelling construction data released this month by the ABS, which showed that completions fell by 2% in 2024-25 and were tracking 65,970 (27%) below

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xkcd.com Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."

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