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The Australian Independent Media Network
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 15:32
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By Al Ross This article was written to challenge anyone who has ever made an absolute statement on any issue. (Oh, the irony). Preface One: I concede that there is an element of “me too” and even “what about me” in this article. Preface Two: In writing this article I feel that I am betraying… The post A rant and a challenge appeared first on The AIM Network. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 15:24
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 15:17
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 14:20
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Australian Industry Group (AIG) chief, Innes Willox, has called on the Morrison Government to implement a Labor-style investment allowance to spur business investment: …we propose the introduction of a generous investment allowance to bring forward and increase business investment. It would allow businesses to deduct for tax purposes a larger proportion of their expenditure on The post Preasure builds on ScoMo to introduce a “generous investment allowance” appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 14:08
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 14:00
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The Teranet-National Bank House Price Index for December has been released, which shows that Canadian house prices rose by 0.2% across the 11 major markets, with annual growth improving to 2.0%: After falling for 14 straight months, Vancouver house prices have bottomed, rising by 0.6% since their trough in September 2019 However, Vancouver’s house prices The post Vancouver house prices climb off bottom appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:53
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:48
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:40
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Car dealerships have endured a nightmare 18 months, with new car sales collapsing to the lowest level since 2012, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI): However, the hail storms that have ripped through Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and South East Queensland over the past week could prove an unlikely The post Hail storms to rescue new car sales appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:20
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Sydney’s $2.9 billion Eastern Suburbs Light Rail Project is a textbook example of Australia’s infrastructure failure. In 2018, the former head of Infrastructure NSW, Paul Broad, in described the project as a waste of money and a vanity project that should have never been started. This was immediately followed by a secret report prepared by The post Sydney Light Rail: A $2.9b slow tram to nowhere appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:09
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Markets have just caught a cold as Bloomie updated the latest propaganda from China on coronavirus: The outbreak of a virus originating in central China entered a new phase of severity as multiple medical workers were reported to have been infected and the death count grew to four people. The spread to medical workers indicates The post Australian dollar sickens as coronavirus worsens in China appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:00
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The New South Wales government recently announced plans to double the capacity of the Sydney desalination plant to 500 million litres a day. A 15 million litre a day plant is also planned for the Hunter region, while one as large as the existing Sydney plant could be built in the Illawarra region if water The post The horror! Desalination plants to blow up emissions targets appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:47
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2019 was a banner year for investment returns. Our own funds performed well throughout the year, highlighted by our growth fund up 17.8%*. This puts it in the top 4 growth superannuation funds according to researcher Chant West: Other Nucleus funds also had significant gains, our International direct share portfolio led with 27.2% returns over The post MB Fund smashes it in 2019 appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:40
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A majority of respondents in all developed countries who took part in the latest Edelman Trust Barometer do not think they will be better off in five years’ time, with most believing that capitalism in its current form does more harm than good. Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman, notes that in the 20 years that The post Half of Aussies worried about migrant job competition appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:20
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The latest Roy Morgan Research (RMR) unemployment estimate for December softened, rising by 0.6% over the month to 8.7%: However, over the year, unemployment fell by 1.0%. Underemployment surged by 1.9% over the month and by 1.1% over the year, with labour underutilisation tracking at 18.6% (up from 0.1% from a year ago): Below are The post Roy Morgan underemployment surges appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:00
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Business confidence ended 2019 on a sour note, with Roy Morgan’s latest monthly business confidence index crashing to an eight-month low amid concerns surrounding the Australian economy: In December 2019 Roy Morgan Business Confidence dropped 3.9pts (-3.6%) to an eight-month low of 104.5. Declining sentiment about the performance of the Australian economy over the next The post Business confidence ends 2019 in the toilet appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:59
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:52
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The post Macquarie signs wind deal with European metals giant appeared first on RenewEconomy. |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:40
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After experiencing an unprecedented boom in high-rise apartment construction over the past decade: And with flammable cladding and structural faults proliferating across Sydney, the NSW Government has finally taken action by giving the NSW Building Commissioner the power to block dodgy developers from building high-rise: Designed to prevent repeats of the Opal and Mascot Towers The post NSW moves too late on dodgy high-rise builders appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:33
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:20
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Unleash the panic, at News: International airports are screening passengers for a mysterious SARS-like disease that has been confirmed as passing from human-to-human and has also jumped China’s borders. The number of cases of the new coronavirus “2019-nCoV”, which causes a type of pneumonia, has surpassed 220 and authorities are concerned it could spread quickly. The post Is coronavirus an economic threat? appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:02
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 11:00
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Here’s Henry Hub, the US gas price: The reason is oodles of fracked gas, so much it’s being thrown away in flaring. The price in some areas is close to negative: This glut has met with weak demand in a mild winter. Thanks to John Kemp: Because Henry Hub gas is relatively expensive once processed The post Global gas prices crash as Australian launch appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 10:43
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Says two year old index. Via CBA’s consumer intentions survey: Home Buying Spending Intentions Home buying intentions moved higher again in December and now sit at a record high HSI readings indicate that the pick up in dwelling prices in H2 2019 may continue into H1 2020 The turn in the HSI is also a sign The post Home buying intentions hit record high! appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 10:40
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A little summary from Crikey makes the point today: Attorney-General Christian Porter will lead a review into the community sports grants scandal despite the program netting his own electorate nearly one million dollars. Porter’s announcement follows revelations by the ABC that Scott Morrison’s local soccer club boasted about essential funding for a project weeks before the grants were announced. Morrison, whose office The post Morrison Government mired in corruption appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 10:20
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Via the ABC’s Michael Janda: Hindsight is 20/20, so they say, but some big calls do seem to stand the test of time. One of those is the Reserve Bank’s decision to start raising interest rates in May 2002, having cut them only five months previously. In his statement explaining that rate cut, then-RBA governor The post Ian Macfarlane: House prices at ‘permanent high plateau’ appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 10:00
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Via the IMF: Tentative Stabilization, Sluggish Recovery? Global growth is projected to rise from an estimated 2.9 percent in 2019 to 3.3 percent in 2020 and 3.4 percent for 2021—a downward revision of 0.1 percentage point for 2019 and 2020 and 0.2 for 2021 compared to those in the October World Economic Outlook (WEO). The The post IMF downgrades global growth, hoses Australia appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 09:45
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 09:40
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Via the AFR today: Economists at QIC, Laminar Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch argue that since November better than expected jobs numbers, retail trade figures, house prices and approvals, and more optimistic trade and sharemarket news will see the Reserve Bank hold fire, despite the temporary hit to the economy from bushfires. …Former The post The RBA should cut straight to zero appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 09:31
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Central banks may be forced to bail out failing fossil fuel investments, as global banking regulator warns of 'existential' climate risks.
Despite the dive in large-scale renewable energy investment in Australia in 2019, a record number of new solar and wind farms forecast to be completed in 2020.
Report highlights increasing danger of relying on Australia’s ageing gas and coal power plants, which have broken down once every 3.2 days on average over past two years.
Taylor's secret review of emissions policy has heavily skewed its consultation towards Australia's biggest emitters and the fossil fuel lobby.
Climate change is placing a heavy burden on China's policy makers, but now they have a potential roadmap to phase out coal and meet the target to cap warming at around 1.5°C.
Vestas promises to deliver "zero waste" wind turbines by 2040, with a particular focus on turbine blades which are currently made by non-recyclable composite materials. 
Macquarie's Green Investment Group inks deal to supply power to mining and metals company Eramet Norway from two Norwegian wind farms.
Total and Marubeni to build 800MW solar plant in time for Qatar's World Cup at what is claimed to be the lowest price for such a project.
The first of 51 Vestas wind turbines erected at Warradarge wind farm, a 180MW project being developed by Bright Energy Investments in Western Australia’s mid-west region.
Latest talk is that first deliveries of Tesla Model Y electric crossover will begin in two weeks, while images and video surface of third row rear seats.
Tesla dominates market for new electric vehicles in Australia in 2020, mostly through Model 3 which will likely beat all but one of its petrol and diesel rivals too.