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Domain has released its Rental Report for March, which delivered more bad news for tenants. Australia’s rental market experienced a resurgence in rental growth in the first quarter of 2024, resulting in new record asking rents. Combined capital city house rents rose 5% (or $30) during the quarter, the largest quarterly increase in 17 years

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released new research on the effects of monetary policy on housing markets. The IMF concluded that Australians are more sensitive to changes in interest rates than almost any other consumers globally. It stated that Australia’s sensitivity to rate rises was due to its high level of household debt, slack

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Fed rate cuts got savagely repriced after the hot CPI. June cuts are gone and we are down to just 1.5% of cuts in 2024: For the first time in ages, this is now similar to rate futures in Australia: Negative yield spreads to US are blowing out: Australian disinflation is surpassing the US in

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On Monday, Seek released data showing that the number of applicants per job ad is running around 60% above pre-pandemic levels, pointing to much higher unemployment: Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro has created another version of the above chart, which plots Seek’s applicants per job ad data against the number of unemployed: As you can

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with Stephen Charles AO KC The dire state of truth in Australia’s civic space crystalised in 2023. We had seen the waning influence of News Corp’s impact on our elections and assumed it meant that enough of us were becoming inoculated against the propaganda. The defeat of the notoriously mendacious Coalition government might have signalled…

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Rebar futures firmed a little but SGX fell marginally: Dalian likewise: There’s not much to drive this on as still-ruined steel margins get wrecked by the dirt price rebound, and steel demand wilts. BofA: There’s plenty of iron ore in China: Plenty everywhere: And a lot more coming: Given the coming Chinese completions cliff in

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Wall Street tumbled and the USD soared back to strength on the back of a way too hot CPI print overnight, pushing the risk complex into dangerous territory. With the inflation genie nowhere near back in the bottle, bond yields spiked and the USD pushed all the undollars over, including gold which had been robust

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Garnaut-led Zen Energy plans 1GW, 8 GWh pumped hydro project in old coal pit west of Sydney to soak up rooftop solar.

DXY went bang! AUD was smashed: Led by North Asia: Oil held up. Old gold would normally crash right about now: Commods hit turb: Miners were hit: EM cowered: Junk signalled risk off: As yields jackknifed: Stocks fell but look at risk of more: US inflation came in hot at 0.4% month on month and

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By Callen Sorensen Karklis   Dear Readers, Seventeen years ago I was inspired by the change that the 2007 federal election saw after the aggressive rollout of WorkChoices, and the fear with it that everyday people’s working rights would be taken away. In Kevin Rudd I saw the promise of change from somebody with a vision…

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Australian home values continue to power on, with CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index rising by 0.5% over the past 28 days at the 5-city aggregate level: The managing director at SQM Research, Louis Christopher, has warned that “with prices rising so strongly, along with strong migration figures and a falling supply of new homes, the

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SCIENCE AND POLITICS ARE OFTEN SUBJECTIVE BEDFELLOWS, A BIT LIKE RELIGION AND POLITICS OF THE PAST… SCIENCE ISN’T A RELIGION, BUT POLITICS, THOUGH UNDER DIFFERENT SYSTEM THAN MONOCRATIC RULERS ARE STILL DEPENDENT ON A MONOCRACY OF SORTS, ALBEIT ONE WITH ONE MORE VOTE THAN THE OTHER “SIDE”. 

SCIENCE DOES NOT LIKE BLIND FAITH, WHILE POLITICS IS AN ART FORM THAT PRETENDS TO BE SCIENTIFIC BUT IS MORE A PROPAGANDA SYSTEM DESIGNED TO CATCH FLIES.