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MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 12:00
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New Zealand experienced one of the biggest house price booms in the world during the pandemic. However, since prices peaked in late 2021, values in real inflation-adjusted terms have plummeted by more than 30% to levels last seen in 2019, nearly six years ago. The latest house price results from the REINZ showed that home The post New Zealand’s house price crash is cause for celebration appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 11:39
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Now, this is a tricky one, George, because it’s a subject on which my opinion has altered violently. And this is a disaster! My God, everyone knows that newspaper readers cling to the opinions of columnists like passengers on the Titanic fastened on to the few lifeboats there upon the chopping, churning sea.
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MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 11:00
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Last year, I claimed that the Australian Treasury’s modelling of Labor’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers demonstrated that the Treasury had become the federal government’s propaganda arm. Labor’s First Home Buyer Guarantee program, which went into effect in October 2025, allows nearly all first home buyers to purchase a property with only a The post Treasury hits back at Labor over 5% home deposit scheme appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Monday, January 26, 2026 - 11:00
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MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 10:30
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The Great Chinese Depression is in full swing. Property sales are catastrophic in the new year. The secondary market looks like a run for the exits. As prices fall relentlessly. Energy consumption is better but only due to the weather. China is at peak oil. Fiscal is booming. But building is going backwards. The boom The post The Great Chinese Depression deepens appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 10:18
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MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 10:00
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The ferrous jaws have to close. Sorry! Steel data is mixed. Mysteel demand is up, but only because CNY is three weeks later this year. MySteel production data is dead flat. But, again, arguably down YOY seasonally adjusted. WorldSteel ended the year with a whimper. World crude steel production for the 70 countries reporting to The post China’s 30 great pyramids of iron ore appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 09:30
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No matter how hard you try. No matter how many facts you put in its way. The fake left will never acknowledge the terrible truth. It was they who abandoned class politics for culture wars and created the populist right in the process. It’s not rocket surgery, but central to fake left ideology is the The post Karen Middleton is Pauline Hanson’s best friend appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 08:00
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For as long as I can remember, the date of Australia Day has been a source of controversy, with ‘Invasion Day’ protests taking place year after year. But recent polling from Resolve suggests that public opinion has shifted significantly toward the date remaining on the 26th of January. According to Resolve, 68% of Australian voters The post Is the Australia Day battle over? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 07:50
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Australia’s alliance with the United States is no longer reliable, and clinging to it now risks Australia’s interests and values. The case for a deliberate, staged Plan B begins with strategic autonomy – and an overdue reckoning with extended nuclear deterrence.
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Your Democracy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 06:55
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Right-wing campaign groups and Coalition MPs are again using Australia Day to drive petitions, wedge politics and anti-elite rhetoric. This year’s campaign is being amplified by paid digital ads, ARC grant outrage and calls to “legislate the date”.
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Your Democracy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 06:15
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Washington and Kiev have discussed several options for ending the Ukraine conflict, including the creation of a demilitarized zone or the deployment of neutral peacekeepers to the Kiev-controlled parts of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), The New York Times has said. The options were reportedly brought up earlier this week at trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Russian officials. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 05:44
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Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 00:05
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In 2024, the NSW Productivity and Equality Commission warned that high housing costs were causing a “brain drain” among 30- to 40-year-olds in Sydney. The NSW Productivity and Equality Commission estimated that Sydney lost around 35,000 persons aged 30 to 40 between 2016 and 2021. According to the most recent quarterly population figures from the The post Why families are fleeing Sydney appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 18:52
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 16:36
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Gunnamatta.Molva · Deep T Australia Day 2026 final Ahead of the Australia Day long weekend Deep T spoke about Australian demand and interest rate dynamics, and the relationship of global events to domestic policymaking concerns. During the discussion he traverses some of the implications of actions by US President Trump, and the ways in |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 16:00
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The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has ridiculed the administration of US President Donald Trump for using the popular ‘Nihilist penguin’ meme to promote its campaign to gain control of Greenland. On Saturday, the White House’s page on X decided to exploit the hype around the meme, which features a lone Adelie penguin abandoning his colony to walk towards distant icy mountains. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 12:38
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Trump, more than a decisive player, is a symptom of the changing times. |
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 09:55
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While December itself was weak, the 12 months ending on 31 December were a good year for international stocks. Being overweight internationally, with a healthy exposure to AI, our portfolios all outperformed their benchmarks. Our international fund finished up 20%, and our Australian fund finished up around 9%. Our tactical growth finished up around 11%. The post MB Fund December performance appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 09:26
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Iran (1953), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Russia (2022), Syria (2024), and now Venezuela (2026). The common denominator underlying the U.S. attacks and economic sanctions against all these countries is America’s weaponization of the world’s oil trade. Control over oil is one of its key methods for achieving unipolar control over the world’s broad trade and dollarized financial arrangements.
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Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 06:54
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Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” is framed as a peace initiative, but it centralises authority, sidelines the vulnerable and rewards coercion. Australia should reject it rather than lend it legitimacy.
Trump’s 'Peace Board' is imperialism in a new suit
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Your Democracy
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 06:32
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Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn. Andrew Brown with the story. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 08:51
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“NATO has kept the peace for nearly eight decades and created the conditions for prosperity and democracy to flourish.” U.S. State Department |
Your Democracy
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 07:31
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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is facing severe backlash from key international partners after a combative speech at Davos, where he went on a tirade accusing Europe of “indecisiveness” toward Russia and insufficient support for his country. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 06:55
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In the German writer Ernst Junger’s macabre vignette ‘Violet Endives’, a man walks into a gourmet shop where the salesman speaks in matter-of-fact fashion about the delicacies on display – human flesh – and embarks upon a long explanation about the art of preparation. The story is a commentary on a society that accepts the appalling with barely the blink of an eye.
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Your Democracy
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 05:44
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The latest split in Australia’s conservative Coalition is yet another signal the old, established rules no longer apply. No longer in Australia, just as they no longer apply in an ever more fractious and chaotic world. The Old Order is breaking down and the New Order, under the quasi-leadership of the United States mogul king, appears to be causing chaos to divide and conquer.
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Your Democracy
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 04:33
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 00:05
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International Reading: EU Freezes U.S. Trade Deal After Trump’s Unhinged Davos Speech – New Republic Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns – Futurism The U.S. debt now equals $229,000 per household—and a hefty tax hike looms as the most probable outcome – Fortune ‘This is sell America’ — U.S. dollar, Treasury The post Weekend reading and MB media appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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George Monbiot
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 22:17
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The grim truth is that almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2026 There is one political problem from which all others follow. It is the major cause of Donald Trump, of Nigel Farage, of the shocking weakness of their opponents, of the polarisation tearing societies apart, of the devastation of the living world. It is simply stated: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. |
John Quiggin
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 16:14
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The Australian government’s legislation seeking to ban access to social media for people under 16 has received plenty of attention in International media, mostly leading with the government’s that 4.7 million accounts were banned or deactivated when the legislation came into effect. Rather less attention has been paid to discussion of the outcome within Australia, where the consensus is that there has been very little effect for most. |
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