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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:42 Source
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PropTrack’s home values index shows that Brisbane dwelling values have increased by 61% since the beginning of the pandemic, dwarfing the 33% increase across Sydney and the 16% rise across Melbourne: PropTrack also showed that Brisbane’s median dwelling value was equal to Melbourne’s at $797,000 in February. Admittedly, Brisbane has a higher share of detached houses

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:31 Source

By Denis Bright   The tidal wave swing against Labor in the Ipswich West by-election on 16 March 2024 created no ripples on the stagnant Bremer River. Historic struggles on behalf of the Labor Movement will come and go in the future without any lasting effects from the by-election results. The Timothy Molony Oval in front…

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:30 Source

Victoria’s population has surged by around 2.2 million people this century to more than 6.8 million people: Official state government projections have Victoria’s population swelling to 11.2 million people by 2056, with Melbourne transforming into a megacity of 9.0 million people: The overwhelming majority of this growth will be driven by net overseas migration: This

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:54 Source

It’s not quite as bad as feared from earlier reporting but it’s hardly lighting it up, either: The price for residential customers without controlled load in SE Queensland is $2,022 which is an increase of 2.7%. For customers with controlled load, the price is $2,363, which is Default market offer prices 2024–25: draft determination unchanged

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:30 Source

DXY and oil run together: AUD is the opposite: JPY held: Copper is the latest stupidity: Mining steamroller meets pennies: EM stocks are fading with China: Junk is fine: Even as yields chase oil: Stocks are going up: RBA rate futures still have no cut before September, and even then, only slowly: But Aussie yield

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 09:29 Source
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Wall Street was able to start the new trading week with confidence going into a volatile period as major central banks set their interest rates again, with the RBA the first cab off the rank today. Tech stocks helped pushed US stocks higher while European shares remain in a holding pattern. Both USD and bond

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:40 Source
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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:39 Source

“Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate” – historian Alfred W. McCoy.

 

The Vampire Ball is ending for the US Empire    By Jeremy Kuzmarov

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:30 Source

The December quarter wage price index from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported the strongest nominal growth in wages since March 2009. Public sector wage growth surged in Q4, buoyed by pay outcomes for health workers and teachers, whereas wage pressures across the private sector abated. Indeed, the next chart from Justin Fabo at

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The Australian Independent Media Network Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:09 Source

Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of Australia releases documents like the newborn into the information world. The event is not without irony, given that such documents are often aged and seasoned numbers, whiskered by storage and…

The post Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 08:00 Source

The Market Ear with the latest on equities. 4.35% matters Morgan Stanley’s Wilson: “While almost all of the equity market rally late last year was attributable to lower rates, stocks are now trying to move past their dependence on central bank policy. This week’s Fed and BOJ meetings will be important tests to see if

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 07:30 Source

Is Peter Dutton an idiot? We know the LNP is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. But that is not enough to explain why the opposition leader is ignoring his best and only chance of rolling the Albanese Government. Albo has jumped the shark on mass immigration, creating an unprecedented housing shock. Everybody I

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 07:00 Source

This Goldman analysis does not cover Australia, but its point does: Global labor markets remain healthy, and low unemployment rates are one reason why DM central banks have remained patient on rate cuts. We forecast that unemployment rates will not meaningfully rise in 2024, and that most major DM central banks will remain on hold

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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 06:30 Source

Not everyone has my devotion to immediately consuming the show the minute it’s available, so we’ll wait. Anyone who is interested in eventually getting in on the Zoom call, let me know. Buck will wait.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 06:24 Source

Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on children, a war on their childhood and a war on their future. Children are dying at an alarming rate from malnutrition and dehydration and doctors are no longer seeing normal-sized babies.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 05:52 Source

IN 2016, AS THE AMERICAN MEDIA WAS PREPARING TO CELEBRATE "THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", I THINK CNN INVITED JOURNALISTS AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA, TO WITNESS THE OCCASION AT "ELECTION PARTIES", WITH STREAMERS AND LOLLIES...

THE ELECTION DID NOT GO AS PLANNED, AND TRUMP WAS ELECTED....

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Renew Economy Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 05:34 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Over the past week, we have witnessed widespread discussion on the deleterious impact that Australia’s record immigration is having on the rental market. Today, I want to discuss a longer-term problem that Australia faces as its population swells to a projected 40.5 million people by 2063: water supplies. Australia is one of the driest nations

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Chinese growth is fine: Industrial output rose 7% in January-February from the same period a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, much faster than economist estimates. Growth in fixed-asset investment accelerated to 4.2%, also stronger than forecasts. Retail sales increased 5.5%, roughly in line with projections. “With the recovery in these data,

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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, March 18, 2024 - 23:27 Source

It’s incredible. Such is our love-in with Peter “Junkyard” Dutton, our former Border Overlord, who used to play the bad cop dispensing rough justice–doing whatever it took to keep us safe-that today, he’s being cheered by most of the press gallery for reckless endangerment in his punt on nuclear energy. Is it just to please…

The post Dutton’s bid for nuclear power: hoax or reckless endangerment? appeared first on The AIM Network.

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New Politics Monday, March 18, 2024 - 18:43 Source

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 18, 2024 - 17:31 Source

  Ocean Beach, Sorrento, 1957, John Perceval, NGV     AUD/USD   EUR/USD   USD/JPY   GBP/USD   Gold   WTI   Brent   Australia 200   US S&P 500   UK 100   Japan 225     Easy listening Earl Scruggs, Ballad of Jed Clampett Steve Harley Cockney Rebel, Make me Smile, Vale….. Sneaky

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 18, 2024 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are putting in fairly strong sessions as the trading week restarts with currency markets still under the weight of a stronger USD in the wake of firmer than expected domestic US economics print from last week. Wall Street is looking to open slightly higher after a poor Friday night session while the

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Cheeseburger Gothic Monday, March 18, 2024 - 16:28 Source

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Your Democracy Monday, March 18, 2024 - 15:32 Source

Putin may be the biggest dupe of his fake election landslide

With official results showing he won nine out of 10 votes, has the Russian autocrat overplayed his hand?

BY EVA HARTOG

 

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Renew Economy Monday, March 18, 2024 - 15:22 Source
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