By Denis Hay Description Australia’s role in military alliances poses risks to sovereignty. Discover how AUKUS and BRICS impact Australia’s independence and security. Australia’s Role in Military and Financial Alliances: Navigating Risks and Sovereignty Australias role in military alliances and position in global military and financial systems has sparked intense debate. With deeper ties to…
“IDF will fuck the Arabs!”, “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!” Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans chanting on 8 November, as reported by The Times of Israel. Yet the BBC just compared them to Jewish victims of the Nazi pogroms. Why this story matters is because of the outsized influence of the BBC – its content is shared as gospel by countless other broadcasters.
‘Defunct Otways tractor #4’ AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225
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Tide Communications Media Release Australian Unity, one of the nation’s first wellbeing companies, has released its latest Wellbeing Index survey report in partnership with Deakin University. The survey, conducted in June 2024, measured subjective wellbeing in more than 2,000 adults aged 18 years and older across a series of personal and national areas, including the economy,…
New Resolve Political Monitor polling shows voters have swung away from the federal Greens. The Greens’ net likeability rating has dropped to minus 19 percentage points, down from minus 1 in the previous federal election. Bandt’s net likeability rating has dropped to minus 15 percentage points, with only independent senator Lidia Thorpe (minus 40 percentage
Gold is a nice snapshot of everything that is going wrong with commodities today. The DXY steamroller is loose. Real yields too. Overbought, oh dear. This is not over. We have not seen a macro regime so hostile to gold and commodities since 2015, when the Chinese economy was slowing and the US economy was
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If you want to know why the Trump administration is back, look no further than Australia’s fake left so ably represented at The Guardian. The paper frequently complains about the housing market while using smug videos from patronising and economically ignorant Millennials as support. Kyle Ward wants to own a home. He and his wife have
The Market Ear on Yardeni’s Roaring Twenties Animal Spirits Roaring 2020s, Animal spirits, Trump 2.0 and world peace….How bullish can you get? Here is Yardeni’s new take on the current backdrop. “We are raising our S&P 500 year-end targets as follows: 6100 (2024), 7000 (2025), and 8000 (2026). We are now targeting 10,000 by the
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Yawn. Bitcoin continued its relentless surge higher, climbing above $88,000 for the first time, boosted by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of digital assets and the prospect of a Congress featuring pro-crypto lawmakers. Trump’s decisive victory in the presidential election has prompted celebratory chest-thumping from the digital-asset industry, which spent over $100 million backing a range of crypto-friendly
Thankfully, peak oil demand is almost here as China decreases the energy-intensity of GDP, and OPEC has way too much product. At $70, oil supply is gushing while demand withers. It’s all coming from non-OPEC. OPEC spare capacity is huge and deficits are increasingly too: If Trump delivers Ukraine peace and Russian barrels re-emerge, the
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The Great War continues, more than 100 years later
Yesterday was November 11, the anniversary of the armistice which ended fighting on the Western Front of what was then called the Great War. It’s always an occasion for sad reflection on my part, thinking about the pointlessness of the massive sacrifices of the War, which achieved nothing except to set the scene for worse disasters to come.