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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The ferrous complex plods on. Caught between the approach of Simandou, Capanema, Gara Gjeblet on one hand and the shutdown of Chinese green steel on the other. The balance is unusually solid blast furnace output for the season. Honestly, if you had shown me that chart in 2019, I would have told you iron ore

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:30 Source

In the years since the pandemic arrived, Melbourne has gone from having one of the strongest economies in the nation and being a drawcard for internal migration to the butt of jokes and criticism. In some ways, this criticism is justified; the Victorian labour market and economy today are performing nowhere near as strongly in

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Renew Economy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:29 Source
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Your Democracy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:10 Source

President Donald Trump on Tuesday seemingly announced a major shift in the U.S. approach to the Russia–Ukraine war. “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:00 Source

With the implementation of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers just over a week away, social media is filled with promotional material from the Albanese government crowing about how their achievement will help prospective home buyers. It’s certainly true that some first home buyers will benefit because they will be able

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xkcd.com Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:00 Source

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 09:00 Source

From the Market Ear: Tech spending Without tech spending the US economy would be close/in a recession. DB points out: 1. Good news: The AI super-cycle — with NVIDIA effectively carrying the US economy — is offsetting demand (tariffs) and supply (immigration) shocks. 1. Bad news: The cycle can’t last without parabolic capex. With hyperscaler

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Your Democracy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 08:07 Source

Donald Trump has used a speech at the United Nations to criticise countries that have recognised Palestinian statehood, accusing them of encouraging the fighting to continue in the Middle East.

In a lengthy speech laden with characteristic hyperbole, the US president also chastised the UN for failing to stop international conflicts and leaving it up to him to end wars on his own.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 08:00 Source

The Productivity Commission (PC) released its quarterly Bulletin, which explored the structural decline in Australia’s ‘capital deepening’, which has contributed significantly to the nation’s productivity malaise. “Labour productivity tends to increase when workers have more or better capital (such as computers and buildings) to work with, which is known as ‘capital deepening’”, PC Deputy Chair

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Renew Economy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 07:53 Source
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Your Democracy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 05:55 Source

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump questioned on Tuesday the UN purpose, claiming that it had not helped him in resolving global conflicts during the first eight months of his second term.

 

Trump Questions Purpose of United Nations in UNGA Address

 

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Your Democracy Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 04:44 Source

Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely if Australia develops its own policies in its own interests.

 

Michael Keating

How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?

 

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten warned that Australia’s declining economic complexity is the single biggest threat to national security. Shorten noted that the Harvard Kennedy School’s Economic Complexity Index ranked Australia 105th out of 145 nations. “Our near neighbours are Botswana, Panama, Namibia and Togo”, he said. “This is not an academic curiosity; it is

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George Monbiot Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 23:34 Source

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  20th September 2025

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 17:35 Source

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has slammed Brussels, accusing the EU leadership of mismanaging key areas such as the economy, immigration, and security.

In a critical speech at Digital Civic Circles, a network of digital groups promoting conservative values in Hungary, he claimed the bloc was on the brink of collapse due to the failures of its current leaders.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 16:39 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 16:22 Source

Coastline at 12 Apostles, Victoria   AUD/USD     EUR/USD     USD/JPY     GBP/USD     Gold     WTI     Brent     Australia 200     US S&P 500     UK 100     Japan 225            

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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 16:15 Source
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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 14:29 Source

Used to be I couldn’t be bothered with print-on-demand for most of my indie-published stuff. It was way too difficult to manage the content management systems, and there’s no economies of scale with a print run of one, so it was also super spendy.

But the CMS, especially at Amazon, got better, and as trade published books got more expensive (thirty-five bucks for a trade paperback, are you fucking kidding me!?) the numbers started to line up.

Plus, there are just some people who prefer paper and are willing to pay for it. So I revisited the process a while ago and started experimenting.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 14:20 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 14:00 Source

After recording stronger than expected growth in the June quarter, it appears that Australia’s economy is stalling once more. Last week, the Westpac–Melbourne Institute Leading Index was released, which fell back to –0.16% in August from +0.11% in July. It was the first below-trend reading since September 2024, suggesting that momentum has slowed. “While the weakness

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 13:00 Source

While the focus of Australia’s political policymakers remains on issues largely external to the nation’s rental crisis, more and more data continues to emerge pointing to the impact of the failure of successive governments, which is worsening circumstances by the day. According to a recent report from News.com.au International students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - 12:00 Source

Australia’s population ballooned by around 8.5 million (45%) over the first 25 years of this century, easily exceeding the population growth experienced by other advanced nations. Between Q1 2021 and Q1 2025, Australia’s population grew by an astonishing 1.88 million (7.9%)—equivalent to adding an Adelaide and Hobart to the nation’s population. The following chart from

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