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Your Democracy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 20:41
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Cheeseburger Gothic
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 18:02
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 17:12
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AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225 Easy Listening The post Macro Afternoon: 29 April 2025 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
George Monbiot
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 17:08
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This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025 |
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Renew Economy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 14:58
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Renew Economy
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Renew Economy
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Renew Economy
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 13:30
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On Wednesday, the all-important Q1 CPI will be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). CBA expects the policy-relevant trimmed mean CPI to print at 0.6% for the quarter, bringing the annual rate down to 2.8%, within the RBA’s target band. Six-month annualised trimmed mean CPI would also slow to only 2.2%, well within The post Market tells RBA to cut fast and deep appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 13:06
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The Tally Room
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 13:04
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As increasing numbers of Australians have chosen to vote early, we have now reached a point where the country is split roughly into two halves – one half voting before election day, through pre-poll voting, postal voting and remote booths, and the other half casting their vote on the day. There are also a few small batches of votes that can’t be identified as being cast on election day or before, but nearly everyone falls into one of these two groups. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 13:00
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Coalition transport spokesperson Bridget McKenzie floated on Sunday, working with state governments on a road user charge after arguing that tax breaks for electric vehicle (EV) owners are being subsidised by internal combustion engine (ICE) car drivers. “The reality is under the Labor Party, they’re not contributing”, McKenzie told ABC’s Insiders. “The roads are deteriorating |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 12:30
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Michael Hartnett at BofA. Zeitgeist:“If no recession, equity lows are in, simple; but can’t jump back on bull unless Treasury yields falling below 4%, and earnings growth stays above 5%”, asset allocator. Tale of the Tape: 3Bs of Bonds (fastest 50bps UST jump since May’09), Base (Trump approval drop from 53% to 46%–Chart 3), Billionaires The post Hartnett: Sell appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
John Quiggin
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 12:14
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 12:00
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Debate is raging today about a label that Peter Dutton has applied to the ABC and The Guardian that they are “hate media”. Regular readers will know MB’s frustration with the bias of these outlets when it comes to subjects such as the impacts on Australia of immigration, energy, and foreign relations. I would describe The post ABC and Guardian are a form of “hate media” appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 11:31
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As the Kremlin massed troops on Ukraine’s border in early 2022, and the threat of sanctions grew, wealthy Russians began flying crates of cash home — with help from Raiffeisen Bank International, Brink’s and Bank of America. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 11:30
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data last week showing that Victorians are paying the highest state and local taxes in the nation. As illustrated in the table below, state and local government taxes were $6,348 per capita in 2023-24, $654 (11.5%) higher than the state and territory average. Victoria has also experienced a The post Victorians drown in taxes and debt appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 11:00
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Electric vehicles (EVs) receive large subsidies in Australia. First, the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for battery EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) is estimated to cost the federal budget more than $550 million in lost tax revenue each year. However, the FBT exemption for PHEVs expired on April 1, 2025. According to the FBT exemption The post Stop subsidising private car purchases appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 10:43
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Boris Johnson rages at Donald Trump's 'capitulation' to Russia - 'Putin will attack again' Boris Johnson says it is time to take the boot off the neck of the Ukrainians and put the squeeze on Vladimir Putin. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 10:30
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The ferrous complex continues to struggle. The one hand, the US/China trade freeze is beginning to bite. On the other hand, Beijing is readying more yawnulus. BofA. Politburo meeting pledged to ready emergency plans The Apr Politburo meeting was held on Apr 25. This was the first meeting after theUS tariff hikes that offered high-level The post Iron ore meat into trade war sandwich appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Renew Economy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 10:16
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 10:00
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Opinion polls continue to collapse on Peter Dutton and the Coalition ahead of Saturday’s federal election. The latest YouGov polling has the Coalition’s primary vote plunging to just 31%, down from 33% last week, with Labor’s primary vote rising 0.5% to 33.5%. The result is the lowest-ever primary vote the Coalition has received, according to The post Dislikeable Dutton sends Coalition to new low appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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xkcd.com
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 10:00
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 09:30
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The Market Ear on the bear market bounce. After the bounce After a 15% run, SPX meets trendline resistance with fading breadth, neutral RSI, and no oversold fuel left. Now it gets harder. Now what? The “easy” part of the bounce is over. Now comes a slightly more tricky setup. SPX is up some 15% The post Stocks party with the child president appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 09:00
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Wall Street ended the trading week on a strong note, continuing the rebound from recent lows after more flopping on tariffs from the Trump regime however a weekend Time interview and further comments out of the White House could unsettle markets again. Friday night saw European stocks also lift higher while the USD firmed against The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 08:08
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Your Democracy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 06:31
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Renew Economy
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Your Democracy
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 05:50
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We still cannot feel confident in predicting the outcome of this 2025 election. But what we can confidently say is that it has been a quite remarkable campaign, shaped by external events in unpredictable ways. This has been quite a remarkable election campaign whatever the outcome. That stands out. I can trace its unpredictability by looking at my speaking notes since last December on the local Canberra community speaking circuit.
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 00:05
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Earlier this year, Dr Raffaele F. Ciriello, a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney, claimed corporate elites have hijacked Australian universities. Dr Ciriello’s claims followed a National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) investigation of 545 council positions at 37 universities, which revealed that members from the Big Four accounting firms and |
Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won Germany's election, yet his personal popularity is low — and getting lower. Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach to the far-right AfD.
