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Renew Economy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 14:27 Source
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Renew Economy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 14:01 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 14:00 Source

The financial year-end, 30 June, was volatile. After all was said and done, our international fund finished up over 18%, and our Australian fund finished up over 15%. Our tactical growth finished up over 12%. All of our funds look attractive relative to their benchmarks, especially as they were all significantly less volatile than the

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Renew Economy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 13:35 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Bloomberg is out this week talking about the “once-in-a-generation trade” in the copper market: The Aug. 1 deadline for Trump’s 50% copper tariffs signals the endgame for the most profitable trade that industry veterans say they have ever seen… And the traders were only getting started. Trump’s probe fired the starting gun on a massive movement

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Renew Economy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 13:08 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 13:00 Source

One could write an entire book on all the various drivers of Australian economic ruin. Today we will be taking the usual data-driven approach to examine the big three, in my view. Housing Is The Economy Back at the dawn of the 1990s, business lending was getting on for two-thirds of all outstanding bank lending

The post Why Australia’s economy is so broken appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Prosper Australia Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:49 Source
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Renew Economy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:31 Source

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Yawn. The Australian. Anthony Albanese and the ­nation’s biggest miners have made a joint effort to defend the nation’s $100bn iron ore trade with China, with billionaire ­Andrew Forrest warning that Australia faces an urgent race to fast-track a green metals industry or risk losing market share. The Prime Minister will put Australia’s iron ore trade

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:00 Source

As usual, everybody is asking the wrong question. AFR. The Trump administration’s undersecretary for policy, Elbridge Colby, is already leading a review into the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and increasingly pushing for firmer commitments about how nuclear submarines would be used. Citing five sources, the Financial Times reported that Colby had asked Australia and

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 11:30 Source

A small majority kept Labor’s China grovelling within acceptable bounds in its first term. But now, a big majority has unleashed a radicalised Albo who is spending his political capital on breaking ANZUS. Washington is not amused, and why would it be while we freeload on its defence capability and build up its archrival’s military?

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 11:00 Source

When the sun set on 2023, Canada had one of the highest migration rates in the world, welcoming over 1.24 million new migrants over the calendar year, or 3.2% of the population. This left Canada ranked number 11 on the World Bank’s list of nations by population growth for 2023, sandwiched between various nations in

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:30 Source

There is no end to Victoria’s disease when it comes to energy. Victoria is doing OK on its renewables rollout, though it has slowed recently. The problem is the price it will pay for it. Unlike other states, VIC and its capital, Megacity One, are gloomy places and will rely more on wind than sun.

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:00 Source

This economy is not growing at 5% in anybody’s mind except for the CCP’s and its menagerie of grovellers. Property is stuffed. Prices are still falling. Cars are doing better on the cash-for-clunkers. This was true of consumption more broadly, but much of that is over now after the vouchers were pulled. But exports are

The post The Chinese economy is on life support appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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xkcd.com Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:00 Source

'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??

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Cheeseburger Gothic Monday, July 14, 2025 - 09:38 Source

I was having breakfast with a mate this morning who had just started watching Foundation on Apple TV, and I warned him that the first series was a bit ordinary but that he should stick with it because it got so much better in the later series.

I don't know how we segued from that to Blade Runner but I think we were talking about unfilmable books. Rob told me something I’d never known. Blade Runner was not a title Ridley Scott came up with because the original Philip K Dick story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would’ve been a box office disaster.

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The Tally Room Monday, July 14, 2025 - 09:30 Source

This weekend’s Tasmanian state election is likely to be the last major election in 2025, barely halfway through the year, but that means the rest of this year will be redistribution season.

Two federal redistributions, in Queensland and Tasmania, are set to resume later this month when Parliament returns. Federal redistributions in South Australia and the ACT are also due soon. I will return to this topic in the next few weeks.

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 09:30 Source

Markets are so fun sometimes. Iron ore is in all sorts of trouble, but traders love to push a counter-trend rally. The latest MySteel data is still down as expected. Westpac sums it beautifully. Iron ore has been incredibly stable A good example of why to stay calm has been the relative lack of volatility

The post Iron ore hands bears a gift appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 14, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Wall Street was unable to make another new record high as the Trump regime again pushed out more bully-boy letters (resplendent with spelling mistakes and ALL CAPS) to former allies and major trade partners, but saved the ink for the EU after markets closed on Friday night. Canada posted a very solid jobs report and

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Your Democracy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 08:50 Source

Ukraine will receive its first batch of long-range missiles financed by Germany by the end of July, a top German general has said, acknowledging that Kiev’s battlefield situation is deteriorating.

In an interview with ZDF, Major General Christian Freuding, who oversees the coordination of Berlin’s military support for Kiev, said Germany is “ready to make these weapons systems available.”

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Your Democracy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 06:41 Source

Western nations’ hegemonic aspirations and dismissal of Russia’s security concerns have led to the ongoing standoff between Moscow and the West, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released on Sunday. Ideological differences are only a pretext to advance the West’s geopolitical interests, he claimed.

Putin added that he expected the collapse of the USSR to alleviate tensions between Russia and the West.

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Your Democracy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 05:55 Source

On July 6, BRICS member states signed the Joint Declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”, in Rio de Janeiro.

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Your Democracy Monday, July 14, 2025 - 04:44 Source

US President Donald Trump has pushed back against claims of a cover-up in the Jeffrey Epstein case, defending his administration’s handling of the release of files related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s death in jail.

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Renew Economy Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 15:32 Source
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John Quiggin Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 11:14 Source

I can’t be bothered engaging with people who use “woke” as a pejorative, or similar Trumpist rhetoric. I’ve therefore banned a couple of commentators (Jack Strocchi and Svante) who persisted in using it, despite warnings. There are plenty of other places where they can bloviate if they choose. Anyone offended by my decision on this is welcome to a full refund on the way out.

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Your Democracy Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 08:21 Source

On June 22, 2025, South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung announced that President Lee Jae-myung would not be participating in the NATO summit scheduled for June 24–25 in The Hague. She referred to domestic priorities and the escalating uncertainty in the Middle East as reasons for the decision.  

Why Lee Jae-myung Did Not Attend the NATO Summit

Konstantin Asmolov

 

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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 08:03 Source

DXY is trying to rally as EUR falls. AUD is doing OK, but I am increasingly concerned it will top out here. That said, the big short is relentless support. Lead boots have stalled. Gold a bit better. BTC has broken out. Metal flamed out. The big mining bear has room to rally and remain

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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 07:40 Source

Everything old is new again in Australia’s parasitic media. Nothing more so than house prices as we head into another monetary policy easing cycle. The media, which largely relies on real estate revenues to exist, loves to pretend to care. These days, ABC is dedicated entirely to pretence. This small gathering of homeowners and politicians

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