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Your Democracy
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 05:44
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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
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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
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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. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 00:05
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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 The post Weekend reading and MB media appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 19:02
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 16:30
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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 The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 14:58
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Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 14:35
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Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 14:34
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Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 14:25
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:30
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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 The post Reserve Bank vs Reserve Bank on interest rates appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:07
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Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:03
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 13:00
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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 The post How Germany blew up its economy appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30
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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 The post Canadians turn away from migration appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30
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Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30
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Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:25
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:00
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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 The post Energy superidiot lurches from hydrogen to farts appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:30
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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 The post AI deletes Warren Buffet appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:00
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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 The post Clare O’Neil’s housing dud faces audit appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
xkcd.com
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 11:00
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10:30
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Australia is experiencing its worst rental crisis in living memory. According to Cotality, the number of homes listed for rent across the combined capital cities is tracking at its lowest level on record following an 18.5% annual decline. Australia’s rental vacancy rate has also declined to a record low of 1.5% nationally, down 0.4% over The post Aussies want immigration cut to ease housing crisis appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10:15
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Victoria disease is coming to a shopping mall near you. Wesfarmers has revealed that staff across its stores, including Kmart and Bunnings, faced over 13,500 threatening incidents from customers in the past year, including more than a thousand physical assaults. …“During the year we experienced a significant worsening of retail crime and customer threatening situations,” Wesfarmers CEO |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10:00
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DXY is back. AUD is being sat on by an elephant. CNY did like the trade truce. Gold is trying as the Fed hawked up, expecting Trump to go nuts. AI metals falmed out with AI. Big miners shooting star. EM too. Junk no bueno. Yields back-up. Tech dwn. Charlie McElligott sums it nicely. Jerome The post Rise of the greenback haunts Australian dollar appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 09:30
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Westpac credit card data tracker has been massaged to produce more positive results. Note that this release introduces major improvements to our Westpac-DataX Card Tracker Index* including significantly expanded coverage and changes that bring measures into closer alignment with official ABS estimates. These have led to significant revisions to previously published figures and growth rates. The Westpac-DataX Card |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 09:00
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Risk markets fell were uneasy overnight on the so-called US-China truce out of the summit between the Trump and Xi regimes with Wall Street falling back despite very solid earnings from Amazon as Meta was dumped more than 11% on AI troubles. The USD reasserted its recent strength against all the majors – except gold The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 08:20
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MacroBusiness
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 08:08
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The Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers, which came into effect on 1 October, had the desired effect on home prices. Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, which covers the five major capital city markets, surged by 1.1% in October, driven by Perth (1.9%), Brisbane (1.6%), and Adelaide (1.4%). Over the October quarter, The post First home buyer deposit scheme rockets house prices appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 06:55
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Last week, a friend asked if I was worried about Chinese “nuclear threats". I asked where he had heard that. He showed me his phone. “WE OPPOSE: CHINA ISSUES NUKE WARNING AFTER AUSTRALIA-US DEAL.”
The ABC and News Corp finally agree on something: China panic
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