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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 - 00:05
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Alex Joiner from IFM Investors published the following chart on Twitter (X) last week, showing the explosive growth in Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM), particularly since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Joiner noted that as of Q4 2000, it had taken 12 years of NOM to add 1,000,000 people to the population. As of The post To fix housing, Australia should simply copy Canada appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 20:30
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The post World’s largest grid battery has been completed – in the oil capital of the world appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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George Monbiot
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 18:11
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The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025 Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 17:00
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A sea of green across Asian share markets as we head into the low volume Christmas period with a solid finish on Wall Street on Friday night flowing through to the regions risk markets overall. The Australian dollar is bouncing back on a slightly weaker USD with a breakout above the 66 cent level. Oil The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Club Troppo
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 16:59
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The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put the articles I wrote for them behind its paywall so … Continue reading → |
Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 16:24
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French President Emmanuel Macron “betrayed” Friedrich Merz by failing to back the German chancellor’s push to steal Russian assets frozen in the EU to fund Ukraine, the Financial Times has claimed. Earlier this week, EU leaders failed to agree on the European Commission’s controversial proposal to use Russia's immobilized central bank funds to finance Kiev’s military and economy. |
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Club Troppo
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 16:04
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a terrorist attack highly likely. And they are also arguably necessary. I think if you … Continue reading → |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 14:20
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The post Fossil gas exporters forced to give Australia “first rights” at reasonable prices – for new contracts only appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:30
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The post Flow Power reaches financial close on its first stand-alone big battery, in Victorian coal country appeared first on Renew Economy. |
Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:28
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IS DONALD TRUMP DOING HIS BIT AND TRYING TO PREVENT GLOBAL WARMING BY PREVENTING RUSSIA AND VENEZUELA TO SELL THEIR OIL? ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE SARCASTIC TO SUGGEST THIS CAPER, AS DONALD WANTS HE AND HIS MATES (SAUDIS, ETC) TO HAVE EXCLUSIVE PETRODOLLAR RIGHTS ON THIS WARMING PLANET — A WARMING DUE TO THE HUMAN USAGE OF FOSSIL FUELS...................
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Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:07
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The post Snowy could emerge as the fairy godmother in race for contracts and capital to replace ageing coal clunkers appeared first on Renew Economy. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:00
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New Zealand house prices continue to fall. The REINZ House Price Index fell 0.3% over the past two months (seasonally adjusted), with economists describing the result as “renewed weakness” after a brief stabilisation earlier in the year. Compared to May, house prices are down by more than 1.2%. Home sales were weak in November, declining The post New Zealand’s biggest house price crash in modern history appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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The Tally Room
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:00
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Comments have been a problem for a while, with a large volume of comments, often off-topic and not of high quality. As a solution to this problem, I have implemented a new policy. Only logged-in users can comment, and only those who are Tally Room members can log in. That’s people who donate $8 (+GST) per month, plus some grandfathered users who give $5 per month and have been doing so since before the price rise. If you are a Tally Room member and want to have broader discussions, there is always the Discord. Hopefully this will restore the comments to actually being relevant to the content being posted. |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 12:06
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The post I am accused of being a global funds manager and half my age. But facts don’t matter in disinformation war appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 12:05
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It is better late than never, but the Albanese government has finally announced a domestic gas reservation scheme for the East Coast of Australia. Under the plan, Australia’s largest exporters would set aside up to 25% of annual east coast gas production for domestic use. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said Australians “should The post Labor announces inadequate East Coast gas reservation scheme appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:35
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The post Trailblazing wind farm snapped up by Spanish renewables giant hoping to free it of grid constraints appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:30
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By Stephen Saunders: On its triennial immigration stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media narratives. Not even Bondi can budge him. The Labor-Liberal duopoly has made the concept of Big Australia central to its economic policy. After COVID froze mass migration, Morrison and Albanese rushed it back, bigger than |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:27
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The post Neoen begins construction of another big battery, first in world to deploy Tesla Megablock technology appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:10
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Japan is confronting existential crises: a rapidly aging demographic, a stagnant economy, crippling debt, fraying relationships with its neighbors, and a declining regional influence. Its military buildup and sanctions against neighbouring countries are only worsening these issues.
On Japan’s Soul Searching: Between Tokyo’s Neon Facade and Aokigahara’s Dark Forest Tamer Mansour
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:00
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On the day after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the American left was thoroughly stunned; it had lost the race for the White House to a figure that many believed to be thoroughly unelectable. That morning, author and political activist Michael Moore appeared on CNBC’s breakfast show ‘Morning Joe’. What followed was a strange but The post The American left is its own worst enemy appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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xkcd.com
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:00
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 10:30
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In a recent article for the Australian Financial Review, economist Christopher Joye made the case that the expansion of government at all levels was putting upward pressure on inflation and, by extension, interest rates. “At the federal level, the annualised monthly trend budget deficit has deteriorated rapidly from $12 billion in December 2024 to $24 |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 10:00
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The new prudential standard announced last month by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) caps high-risk mortgages (i.e., with a debt-to-income ratio greater than 6x) at 20% of new lending, effective from February 2026. In line with government objectives to increase affordability through supply incentives, APRA’s policy does not apply to newly constructed homes. It |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 09:00
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Wall Street is slowly drifting into holiday mode as risk markets peer through to 2026, with volatility contained to currency markets as Yen weakens significantly on the back of Friday’s rate hike by the BOJ. The USD took back some losses against some of the other majors with Euro now at a two week low The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 08:00
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Earlier this month, I argued that Victoria was a “lead weight on Australia”, which was informed by the latest state accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These data show that Victoria’s per capita gross state product (GSP) fell by 0.8% in 2024-25 and has risen by only 10.0% since the Global Financial Crisis The post Victoria: Australia’s lagging state appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 07:00
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From the Market Ear: Nothing NASDAQ NASDAQ is in the middle of the range, trading at the same levels we traded at in late Nov, early Nov, late Oct, early Oct…you get the point. Why not at least at ATH? SPX has hugged bond volatility all year. The inverted MOVE is screaming ATHs… equities just The post Trust the perfect Netscape trajectory or the flashing sell signals? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 06:55
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Against the backdrop of hysteria over “repressions in Russia,” Great Britain itself has long since transformed into a police state, where dissent is stigmatized and truth is replaced by propaganda. Putin’s response has exposed the double standards of Western media.
The Empire of Lies: How the BBC Strangles Free Speech Under the Mask of Objectivity and Why Trump is Right to Sue Viktor Mikhin
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 06:00
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Mourners in Australia fell silent on Sunday in honour of the victims of the Bondi Beach attack. The memorial was part of a national day of reflection to mark a week since the shooting in which two gunmen opened fire on an event celebrating the Jewish festival of Hannukah. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 00:05
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Last week, Cotality released its Pain & Gain Report, which measures gains and losses on established homes sold across Australia in the September quarter of 2025. Cotality revealed that the September quarter was Australia’s most profitable resale period in two decades. 95.5% of established homes sold nationally in the quarter made a gross profit, with The post Australia’s housing haves and have-nots appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 22:15
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Reddit users have previously been shamed for running their own investigations into criminal matters, but for the Brown University shooting last Sunday one user proved vital for finding the suspect. On December 13 a gunman killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others in their Engineering building, before escaping by foot. |
The world's biggest battery energy storage system – a 7.8 gigawatt-hour behemoth – has been completed in Saudi Arabia, and will now start the process of powering up.
Australia will keep more of its gas for the domestic market under a national reservation scheme unveiled by the federal government.
Australia renewables gentailer reaches financial close on its first "battery only" project – and its largest project of any sort, to date – in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Queensland's decision to say no to renewables is bad news for some. But in NSW, it could help Snowy emerge to save the transition away from coal. 
I am accused of being a global funds manager masquerading as a journalist. Facts don't matter much in a war of disinformation waged agains renewables. 
Spanish renewables giant agrees to buy one heavily constrained Victorian wind farms in line for a grid upgrade boost.
Australia's most successful big battery developer starts work on a new project, the first in the world to feature Tesla Megablock 20 MWh units.
