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In the United States, the median American is 39 years of age and is at the average part of a cohort that is seeing at best stagnating outcomes, at worst deteriorating ones. In 2002, the median age of a first-time home buyer was 31, with the median age of a repeat home buyer being 41.

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A near two year low in the US ISM manufacturing print saw the USD take a dive while other risk markets repositioned after the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela with oil stocks lifting amid a small bid in Brent and WTI markers. Wall Street was outpaced by European and Japanese stocks while Pound Sterling and

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Coal and gas have finally been eclipsed by renewable energy as wind and solar tip in half the power to Australia’s electricity grid. Stephanie Tran reports an historic event. 

Australia’s electricity grid has reached an historic milestone, with renewables supplying almost half of all power across the national electricity market in the final quarter of 2025 and exceeding 50% in Western Australia for the first time.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro will emerge as an enduring political symbol similar to Simon Bolivar, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara, secretary of the Decolonial International Network Foundation, Sandew Hira, has told RT.

Maduro was kidnapped along with his wife, Cilia Flores, during a US raid on Caracas on Saturday. Washington accuses the Venezuelan leader of narco-trafficking and weapons offenses – charges he has denied.

How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2025

Asian share markets are very mixed with local shares not moving while Japanese shares surge following the late 2025 BOJ rate hike as the volatility from the Trump regime’s “special military operation” into Venezuela only really upsetting commodity markets so far. The USD is seeing a surge against the majors, particularly Euro while the Australian

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The mild weather sure isn’t saving your current energy bills, which will be going literally through the roof thanks to Albo’s incredibly mismanaged Ukraine War power shock and bill rebates. However, the mild summer weather has triggered hope that a better year is ahead for bill relief. According to this analysis, wholesale prices in NSW

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One of the biggest questions for Australia going forward, both socially and economically, is how many additional homes can be built each year. The Albanese government’s National Housing Supply and Affordability Council expects the housing deficit to continue growing until at least mid-2029, if forecasts hold true. However, there is hope that home building may

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The latest national accounts, which show the economy grew by just 0.4% and contracted marginally in per capita terms, provided further confirmation of the increasingly significant risk of effective stagflation for the Australian economy. Meanwhile, despite relatively weak headline growth and per capita stagnation, inflationary pressures were resurgent in the first full monthly CPI release

With its great view of fireworks, New Year’s Eve at Williamstown is a robust affair. This year was a bust. Police in every uniform and mounted on every conveyance outnumbered a crowd perhaps 20% the size of last year. Bikes, motorbikes, quads, horses, and jackboots corralled desultory revellers. Reveller in name only. Official violence stomped

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Risk markets will pivot this week on the volatility around the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela as 2026 accelerates the new global order of “take what you want around you”. Watch out Cuba, Columbia, Canada and Greenland! Wall Street remains somewhat in holiday mode but will wake up with a bang tonight with stock markets

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TL;DR Not good. Taking account of economic failure, nothing Trump has done – rape, war crimes, corruption, insurrection, ICE or trashing the constitution – has cost him a single vote on balance.

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