What a difference a few months makes. The last time Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met at the White House in February, the two countries were riding high.
No-one really knows the most cost-effective treatments for mental ill-health. But among the most promising candidates seems to be: take the dog for a walk. Illustration: A cost-effective mental resource takes a break from promoting healthy exercise and lifting spirits … Continue reading →
By Harry Ottley, Economist at CBA It was an exceptionally quiet week in Australia with a drop in consumer sentiment the only data of note. RBA Governor Bullock appeared before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee but kept communication very much in line with recent statements. Offshore, the US government shutdown continued, delaying key economic releases
Weeds are destroying brickworks
Ants have more chance of survival
Than humans trying to improve
Unsatisfied with their unfinished nature
In times of enduring friendship
The dead come back to honour his passing
I was so tired I could not sleep
My scooter’s battery was empty
The machine would not start at the gate
On my way to give treasures and junk
Night fell
Unfair criticism has often been levelled at the UN. None has been so gratuitously nasty than President Trump’s 23 September 2025 General Assembly address.
Media coverage highlighted Trump’s more outrageous comments, but did not provide deep and comprehensive analysis of the policy implications of his speech.
On the sidelines of the recent World Public Summit held in Moscow in September, New Eastern Outlook spoke with Sabena Johannes, the President and CEO of Afritrack Angola. The talk turned out to be quite emotional and highly relevant.
Sabena Yohannes: “We must become a single force” BY Yuliya Novitskaya
The news of the week that Deloitte had somehow managed to get AI to invent references in a report, for which they harvested 400 thousand dollars, should be a warning for all of us. What it means—Field Exercise So, for this weekend, the Macrobusiness cognoscenti has a field exercise that everyone is to complete. For
A new trailer has landed for “Australia: A History”, the upcoming three-part documentary series fronted by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, set to air on Sky News Australia next week. The series promises to chart the nation’s journey from its ancient Indigenous beginnings to its status as a modern democracy—through the eyes of one of its most divisive former leaders.
In March 2018, David Roberts wrote a piece in Vox bemoaning the state of the op-ed page of the New York Times; the main thrust being that these pages do not have enough diversity of opinion, but particularly, he stated that while it carries some conservatives, these authors do not reflect the madness of US conservative politics; they are “alienated from the animating force of US conservatism, which is Trumpism”1. One of the paragraphs that struck a chord with me was the following:
Well, that escalated quickly. DXY fell. But AUD crashed. Gold held, oil was murdered. AI metals were deleted. The big bear is back. EM ouch. Led by junk is bearish. Despite a weak DXY , the full bond curve was bid. This will be critical as tariffs return. The stock bubble just burst. It’s not
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Democrats have said they will not agree to end the US government shutdown unless Republicans meet their demands, with one senior aide telling CNN it would take an airline catastrophe for the party to back down.
