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Your Democracy Friday, July 11, 2025 - 05:29 Source

I’m mesmerised by a beautiful system

Full name is spelled De-mo-cra-cy

It demands trust in a ma-jo-ri-ty

A barking pack of dreadful MAGA men

 

When half of the people plus one are dumb

And the others are super-intelligent like me

Not a chance we have to really be

Anything but full of stark darkly glum

 

Trump plays to enter all conversations

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 16:00 Source

Most Asian share markets are mixed despite a solid lead from Wall Street overnight, with local stocks taking back their recent losses despite the constant bullying from the Trump regime’s tariffs on pharmaceuticals. There’s more tariff announcements and letter printing on the way, but of course we still await the TACO trade. Oil markets are

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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George Monbiot Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 15:55 Source

Without resistance, a combination of new laws and new technologies of control will rush us towards dystopia.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  4th July 2025

No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever-more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and control are developed.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 14:00 Source

This is why. The Guardian. The West Australian Labor premier, Roger Cook, has encouraged his federal counterparts to consider a gas reserve on the east coast as it mulls a regulatory overhaul to shore up supply and contain prices. Cook said WA’s gas reservation policy, which requires offshore producers set aside 15% of supplies for

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 13:30 Source

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand paused following the RBA this week. The decision was expected. ANZ sees it as temporary. Our view on today’s decision was that the recent soft data justified another 25bp OCR cut, but that lingering concerns about upside inflation risks would on balance see the Committee decide to hold the

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Ferrous markets are hoping against hope! Nomura has a great assessment of the Chinese economy. It seems like “déjà vu all over again” for China’s economy. During the past few years, we have observed first halves associated with optimistic expectations for a sustained stock market boom, a decent growth recovery, an end to the property

The post Iron ore enters the dragon’s den appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Since the international borders reopened following the pandemic, a sizable proportion of Australia’s growth has stemmed from two sources: exports and government spending. Given the impact of the war in Ukraine on commodity prices, it’s self-evident that exports would play a major role in the growth of the economy. But there is a surprising factor

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 12:05 Source

Tesla has finally, sort of, launched driverless cars. Waymo is doing 250,000 trips per week. Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen look at the big picture for driverless cars and what they mean for investors. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 12:00 Source

Recently the topic of the total proportion of the population made up by migrants has been making headlines in the United States, Britain and parts of Europe. This prompted quite the level of conversation on social media, so I thought it would be interesting to see where Australia stands both relative to itself historically and

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