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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 14:45 Source

  Gunnamatta.Molva · 2025 March 14 Ben Aris and Gunnamatta Russia Ukraine and Europe   Ben Aris is the Editor in Chief of BNE Intellinews, (bneeditor at Twitter), and he has been reporting on Russia and the former Soviet Union, with a focus on  business, finance and economics since the 1990s.  In that time he

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 09:41 Source

The face ripper is here as DXY falls and EUR rises. AUD to the moon! Lead boots are heavy. Base metals sold the fact. RIO’s copper is opening jaws to BHP. EM meh. Junk firmed. Bad new for all. Yields up as Germany’s Merz got his fiscal deal. Stocks to the moon! Three points of

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New Politics Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 08:00 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 06:43 Source

HAVING BEEN A FOLLOWER OF PETER SELLERS SINCE THE 1960s AND USING THE GOON SHOW REPEATS ON BBC (ONE?) TO SHARPEN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ITS HUMOUR — I HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED A LITTLE GEM FROM THE MASTER OF BUMBLING ALONG. 

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 06:37 Source

Europe and the United States should gradually normalize relations with Russia once the Ukraine conflict is over, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said.

The statement comes a day after the head of the US-led military bloc met President Donald Trump at the White House and amid ongoing efforts by Washington to establish a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 06:12 Source

We have reached a point where, with regard to Russia, the US is more reasonable and less bellicose than its currently semi-rebellious European vassals.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Costco workers now officially make $31 an hour—and can expect raises for the next two years – Fortune If you think the current outlook is bad, just wait until the White House can’t find anyone to buy its debt, warns Ray Dalio – Fortune US judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 17:00 Source

Asian share markets have rebounded into the final session of the trading week with mostly positive sessions across the region as traders seemingly giving up trying to decipher where the battle lines are being drawn in the ongoing trade wars started by Orangus Maximus in the Oval Office. The USD is trying to fight back

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The Tally Room Friday, March 14, 2025 - 14:39 Source

Over the last few years I have had the privilege of making submissions and then appearing before parliamentary inquiries reviewing the conduct of the most recent federal election and the most recent state elections in New South Wales and Victoria.

Each of these inquiries are a standard practice following every general election, and are conducted by a standing joint committee dedicated to electoral matters. In NSW and federally it is called the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM), and in Victoria it is called the Electoral Matters Committee.

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