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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 00:05 Source

The latest mortgage data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that investors have abandoned the market, with new mortgage commitments falling 35% year-on-year: A new report from CoreLogic’s Head of Research, Eliza Owen, questions why investors have pulled back from the market when rents are rising at their fastest pace on record amid

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 00:01 Source

Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Remote work gains momentum despite return-to-office mandates from high-profile CEOs – Fortune Saudi National Bank’s chairman resigns after Credit Suisse comments – WSJ No company ever cost-cut its way to greatness  – Venture Beat Could office blocks be the next big casualty of the banking crisis? – The Guardian

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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 19:42 Source

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 19:09 Source

At the moment we’re witnessing the Liberal Party at their absurd best. Julian Leeser asked if the Reserve Bank would need to consult the Voice before it altered interest rates. Now, Leeser is allegedly one of the Liberals who supports the Voice but that didn’t stop him asking the sort of question that is clearly…

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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 17:53 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 17:06 Source

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John Quiggin Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 16:32 Source

Pseudo-objectivity about pseudo-objectivity

Jay Rosen coined the phrase “the view from nowhere” to describe the default stance of political journalism in the US and elsewhere, often defended as “objectivity”. This is closely linked to the concept of the Overton window, which I wrote about recently in relation to the AUKUS nuclear subs deal

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Club Troppo Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 16:16 Source

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 15:02 Source

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 14:51 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 14:00 Source

The latest national accounts showed that New Zealand’s economy is already halfway into recession, with GDP shrinking by 0.6% over the December quarter. The result disappointed economists’ expectations and was significantly worse than the 0.7% increase in GDP forecast by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ): Despite the economy being far worse than anticipated,

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 13:30 Source

Veteran communications analyst, Paul Budde, has blamed the former Turnbull Coalition Government for the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) poor value and performance. According to Budde, “NBN Co was forced” to go “ahead with the Multi Technology Mix (MTM) model” imposed by Turnbull, and “it is now paying the price” in the form of higher costs

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 13:22 Source

On some level it is straightforward for a Neo Nazi protest to be easy for police to handle. As we saw on the streets of Melbourne last weekend, and repeatedly over recent years, a high five for white supremacist protesters is an easy gesture for some police officers. It’s not just that there can be…

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 13:00 Source

The ABS today released retail sales data for February, with sales coming in bang on expectations at 0.2% month-on-month: The below table from Alex Joiner at IFM Investors shows the breakdown between sub-categories: Joiner believes there are clear signs of a retail slowdown, but not a red flag for the RBA to change course next

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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:43 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:30 Source

Australian consumer confidence remains well as truly in the gutter, with the latest weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence index remaining stuck below 80 for the fourth week in a row: It was the first time the index been below the 80-point mark for four consecutive weeks since the early days of the pandemic in April

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:00 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:30 Source

The Australian’s Judith Sloan has done a terrific job explaining how the Albanese Government is deliberately engineering a housing crisis by running the largest and most extreme immigration program in this nation’s history. Sloan first explains how Labor’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is woefully inadequate and won’t provide nearly enough housing to

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The Tally Room Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:22 Source

At the end of election night, Labor had definitively won 45 seats, but was expected to pick up enough extra seats to win a majority (requiring 47 seats). As of Sunday lunchtime they were leading in 49 seats. This had dropped to 47 when I was analysing the results yesterday, but it looked like there were 3-4 others where Labor was in a good position to catch up.

As yesterday afternoon and evening stretched on, there were a number of updates which were bad news for Labor and seemed to weaken Labor’s position in some of those close races.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:02 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:00 Source

As we know, Australia’s population soared by nearly 500,000 in 2002 (a record high) on the back of extreme net overseas migration of nearly 400,000 (also a record high): The early indicators are that 2023 will be an ever bigger year for immigration given monthly visa data shows net arrivals are booming on the back

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 10:55 Source

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 10:30 Source

Goldman kicks us off with its usual best-case scenario. 1. It is still too early to have a confident view on the implications of the current banking turmoil for the US economy. Our baseline expectation is that reduced credit availability will prove to be a headwind that helps the Fed keep growth below potential despite

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 10:00 Source

The excellent Michael Wilson at Morgan Stanley with his latest bearish missive. When Markets Question the “Higher Powers” Back in October when we turned tactically bullish, we wrote that markets often need the engraved invitation from a higher power to tell them what’s really going on.For bond markets, that higher power is the Fed and

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 09:30 Source

Legislation to establish the federal government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) appears likely to be defeated in the upper house unless the government agrees to the concessions that are being sought by the Greens, independent senator David Pocock and the Jacqui Lambie Network. Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather and Senator Pocock are calling

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 09:00 Source

DXY was soft last night: AUD did not benefit much: Oil is everybody’s pain. Gold fell: Not much bank stress in commods or EM: US yields took off as bank fears ebbed: Stocks did a bit better: Overall, bank fears eased but the KRE is not giving up its losses: Credit Agricole has more on

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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 08:34 Source

I fucking loved this recent bit in the Financial Times (paywalled, soz) about an Italian communist professor throwing shade on Italian food mythology. Long story short, he says it’s pretty much all bullshit. Until the 1950s most Italians starved every day and whatever nutrients they found during the course of the day they’d push straight into their feeding holes.

One fave bit was his take one parmesan cheese. The only true parmesan is American.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 07:11 Source

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