Western Europe must keep sending billions in aid to Ukraine even if it comes at the expense of health services and education provision to citizens, former NATO Secretary General and current Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, has said.
Cotality has released its September housing market report, which contains more bad news for renters. The national rental vacancy rate has fallen to a fresh record low of only 1.4%, according to Cotality, which has driven a reacceleration in rental growth. “The national vacancy rate slipped to a new record low of 1.4% in September,
Can governments keep their sovereignty without becoming innovation-stifling totalitarians? And on the other hand, are the tech feudalists willing to provide innovative digital infrastructure without eating into state sovereignty and freedoms?
Non-State Actors, Techno-feudalism, and Governments’ Dependency Syndrome
BY Tamer Mansour
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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You will have to walk down the hill in the hot sun and pay a strange man four and a half thousand dollars.
It sucks.
As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has chosen to hold the official cash rate at 3.60%, in what was a unanimous decision. In arriving at its decision, the statement noted that “the decline in underlying inflation has slowed”, with “recent data, while partial and volatile, suggest[ing] that inflation in the September quarter may
On Monday, Stats NZ released data on filled jobs for August, which recorded a 0.2% monthly rise, in line with expectations. However, as shown below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the August data incorporated chunky historical revisions, which suggest a weaker labour market starting point. The earlier reported 0.2% increase in July was revised
When then Treasurer Scott Morrison came to the Prime Ministership in 2018, he did so as something of a compromise candidate. In the first leadership spill held on August 21, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defeated challenger Peter Dutton 48 votes to 35. This led to the now-infamous jab at Dutton that he was unable to
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