Let me play devil’s advocate for a minute. I’m not here to defend President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But I do want to push back against the way the conversation around them often unfolds – dismissing them offhand with a smug “well, that’s just dumb,” without any regard for the broader economic context, either at home or globally.
While Australia’s mainstream media and the university and property lobbies continue to lie about the impacts of immigration on the rental market, Canada has provided a dose of reality. In the years following the pandemic, Canada experienced an unprecedented boom in immigration, which drove a record 1.2 million increase in the country’s population in 2023–04.
The federal Coalition has left open the possibility it could leave the Paris climate accord, if it determines that meeting climate targets would do too much damage to the economy.
The Coalition has previously said it will dump Australia's current climate target to reduce emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030.
The Con Artist in Chief has dumped and pumped global stock markets with his near complete folding of the tariffs announced mere days (feels like months) ago, with huge rallies across Asian markets today as they play catchup to Wall Street. Even Chinese markets are floating higher despite the fact that this is but a
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President Trump’s 10% tariff on Australia never made sense. Australia has historically had a gaping trade deficit with the United States. As illustrated in the table below from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the United States exported (A$88.2b) more than double what it imported (A$37.5b) from Australia in 2023-24. The Trump administration’s
After the 2008 financial crisis, US money managers took control of big banks and industries across Europe. Former Russian ambassador to the UK and Rossiya Segodnya deputy chief Alexander Yakovenko reveals how.
What Are Mega-Funds?
US asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, State Street, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase control a combined $36.4T+ in wealth.
Wow. You go, Nine. Publishing straight propaganda from the Chinese embassy now. China is offering to work with Australia to boost trade and defend growth in response to tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump in a new bid to find common ground when the world is spiralling into a catastrophic trade war. The Chinese
Anything that doesn’t like the LNP, The Guardian loves. End of point of view. Bruce Mountain and his advisory board should know better. A leading energy expert has warned the Coalition’s plan to charge gas exporters a levy to force them to sell more to the domestic market could backfire and force local prices up
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The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Propagandists like “Dr Demography” Liz Allen are regular mouthpieces on the pro-Big Australia migration circuit, as are the ANU Migration Hub’s Peter McDonald and Alan Gamlen. Now, a new immigration propagandist has emerged from ANU – Ben Phillips from ANU’s
Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Chief Strategist, David Llewellyn-Smith discuss how markets have settled after last week’s wipeout and who knows what the story of the day will be! Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief