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Cheeseburger Gothic Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:55 Source

Man, I had a bad night’s sleep last night. It felt like I got about two hours, but I am assured by someone not a thousand miles away from the other side of the bed that I was snoring like a bear for many hours.

I think not.

I feel so fucking shattered today, and I have strong memories of swatting mosquitos and chasing dogs off the bed at 2AM.

Very hard to focus on the writing today.

Makes me wonder when I became such a wuss.

I used to do all my best work at 2AM with a head full of cheap whisky and a tummy full of hot chips.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:34 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26yf9jxsdyU

Even Jussie Smollet couldn’t make this stuff up: Sen. John Kennedy

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., discusses how the government failed to prepare for Hurricane Helene on ‘Hannity.’

 

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6362865400112

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:30 Source

Investment bank Barrenjoey has called on financial regulators to consider a scheme it argues would give first-home buyers access to cheaper loans and allow them to borrow up to 3% more. In a supplementary submission to the Senate Economics inquiry examining financial regulations and homeownership, Barrenjoey has urged the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) to

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:00 Source

Australia runs a large skilled migration program. Over the past 20 years, 2.3 million permanent skilled visas have been issued in Australia. Earlier this year, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) released research showing that half of skilled migrants work in overqualified occupations and earn far lower incomes than locals with the same

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 11:30 Source

Clare O’Neil is challenging Mad King for Australia’s most treasonous minister. Women are making such a difference to ALP! Having been central to the creation of the housing crisis by tearing down the borders as Minister for Home Affairs, O’Neil is now pretending to fix her own disaster by selling the parliament a series of

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 11:00 Source

In September 2022, the newly elected Albanese government held the Jobs & Skills Summit with the primary objective of accelerating net overseas migration into Australia. Then Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stated that immigration had been the “special sauce in our national story” and called for more. O’Neil stated that Australia needed to shift “away from

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xkcd.com Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 11:00 Source

There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 10:30 Source

The Australian’s James Kirby has published a fearmongering report claiming that cuts to incentives for property investors that the former government introduced three years ago have given New Zealand the mantle of the world’s worst rental market: “After the NZ government cut tax incentives for property investors three years ago, the volume of investment funds

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 10:00 Source

A chastened Bloomberg has turned on its master: Ever since President Xi Jinping sought to draw a line under China’s slowdown last month, investors have clamored for him to back up monetary easing with a powerful fiscal stimulus to help fuel one of the nation’s biggest stock rallies in years. But those who hoped to get an

The post More China yawnulus appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 09:30 Source

SHFE and SGX converged yesterday: Dalian kept falling overnight after the NDRC stimulus bust: Goldman sums it up: The past week’s China stimulus induced mining sector rally was driven by repositioning and short covering across the metals and the ferrous complex according to our commodity trading team with the second largest weekly increase on record

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Fedspeech that rate cuts could be more than 50 basis points got Wall Street back in the game overnight, helped along with potential pullback in Israeli aggression towards Iran. This took the heat out of oil prices but currency and bond markets remain cautious to say the least. The USD remains quite firm, keeping Euro

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 08:44 Source

IN THE PAST, PHILOSOPHERS DISCUSSED WHAT THE IDEALS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR SHOULD BE. ALEKSANDR DUGIN ANALYSES WHAT IS… HE EXPLORE THE DEVIOUS NATURE OF THE BRIGANDS AND DANGEROUS PSYCHOS WHO RULE THE WORLD BECAUSE WE LET THEM TO.

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