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Saturday 16 June 2018 Introduction This week ended much like the last: boringly quiet. The big event of course was the meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. The Donald added to his personal embellishments of himself by describing himself as brave. He seemed to create the impression that because he now likes the fellow…

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Undoubtedly, sellers are in charge and it’s solely because of this that the cryptocurrency market cap is down $25 billion in the last four days or so. But, this is coming at the expense of other coins because Bitcoin controls […]

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The former was playing in the shed inside as I rode and the latter was being used across the road.They Might Be Giants won. I stayed riding and was not scared away.Which is good; no one wants a chainsaw massacred legend band.

There’s been another kerfuffle about gender-neutral language. Although it’s mostly anecdotal outrage, the main issue seems to be whether, as is claimed by traditionalists, the masculine third person pronoun should be used in cases where no gender is specified. For example, “If a student writes an essay, he should not be marked down for his choice of pronoun”.

People have had fun with some extreme cases, like “since Man is a mammal, he suckles his young”.  But I think the problem can be posed with much more standard sentences. Let’s take sentences of the general form

For once the RBA’s Luci Ellis making good sense: I’m grateful for the opportunity to speak to you today, and conscious of the infrastructure expertise in the room. There wouldn’t be anything I could add to what you know about project design, selection or funding. What I would like to do today is place infrastructure

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In August 2001, Australia’s dour Prime Minister John Howard demonstrated to the world what his country’s elite soldiers could do. Desperate, close to starvation and having been rescued at sea from the Palapa I in the Indian Ocean, refugees and asylum seekers on the Norwegian vessel, the MV Tampa, were greeted by the “crack” troops…

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ESB to put meat on the skeleton of the National Energy Guarantee after briefing state and territory ministers on Friday.

The AUD is still under pressure this morning: Bonds are bid: XJO has launched: Dalian is soft: Big miners are up: Big oil is up: Big Gold is up: Even Big Scum has rebounded as yields fall: And Puswad: A word of warning, Shanghai is breaking down as capital flight intensifies: But for today the

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Via S&P: Arrears on the mortgages underlying Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) increased during the past year, according to S&P Global Ratings’ first-quarter 2018 edition of “RMBS Performance Watch: Australia.” Mortgage arrears continued to rise in resource states, where conditions for mortgage performance have remained more challenging. S&P Global Ratings has updated its arrears data

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When Jane found herself jobless, homeless and separated from her partner, she began staying in her campervan in Hawkesbury, on the Sydney fringe. There was a time, she said, when she had 11 cents in her bank account and wouldn’t have more for another nine days. She survived off charity. “Most Australians don’t know what real hunger feels like,” she says. Sometimes, men would approach her campervan to ask for sexual favours.

A Men’s Shed group, sporting clubs and a local radio station are among organisations in Mayo benefitting from the Turnbull Government’s $5 million Solar Communities Program.

Global energy demand grew above its 10-year average in 2017 and carbon emissions increased after three years of little-to-no growth, according to BP’s 67th annual Statistical Review of World Energy.

Via the AFR: A US recession could occur within the next two years according to former US bond trader Charlie Jamieson, who says the flattening of the bond yield curve is a signpost of possible trouble ahead. Speaking on a panel on global macro at Livewire Live 2018, Mr Jamieson, executive director at Jamieson Coote

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