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Cheeseburger Gothic
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 07:04
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Cleaning out my notebook yesterday and came across this old LA Times bit about Big ‘L’ literature guy Ian McEwan helping his kid write a high school essay on a book by… Ian McEwan.
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Your Democracy
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 06:45
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Ten days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, Wilkie Declouet, a former law enforcement officer, and lifelong resident of Ironton, posted photos to social media of coffins and tombs scattered around his neighborhood. |
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Your Democracy
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 05:49
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Media organisations, including News Corporation and Nine Newspapers, have been blocked from publishing any of the ABC's un-redacted defence in its defamation battle with former federal attorney-general Christian Porter. |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 05:17
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MacroBusiness
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 00:15
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Ex-RBA head of research turned chief economist at the Centre for Independent Studies, Peter Tulip, has provided a submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue’s inquiry into Housing Affordability and Supply, which admits that the massive increase in immigration from 2005 caused the nation’s purported housing shortage and helped make The post Professor Tulip: Immigration drove nation’s housing shortage appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 00:10
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Finally, the Morrison Government gets it: Health Minister Greg Hunt has urged pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to seek approval for its COVID-19 vaccine to be given to children as young as five in Australia as soon as possible. Hours after the company announced plans to seek approval from US regulators for its vaccine to be given The post Morrison accelerates children vaccine approval appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 00:05
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It just keeps getting worse for the ferrous complex. China now has a steel glut. Levels are higher than this time last year which is very high: But steel output is well below 2020: So the inventory to sales ratio is climbing fast despite all of the output cuts. Just as bad, iron ore inventory The post Daily iron ore price update (My god, China now has a steel glut) appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 00:01
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MacroBusiness
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 00:01
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Macro & Markets Global energy shortage looms as investment in fossil fuels slides – Nikkei Asia US-China tensions tug at Pacific internet cables – Asia Times The global economy could feel the effects of China’s Evergrande crisis. Here’s what investors should know – CNBC China Evergrande fears grip markets as Beijing stands back, for now The post Links 22 September 2021 appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 18:51
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WixxyLeaks
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 17:54
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Now that ‘Back In Black’ has transformed into ‘I See Red’ Australia is waking up to the fact that after years of Coalition mismanagement ‘The Honeymoon Is Over’. Although many of us would like to think so, elections are not won from the left or the right, they are won from the centre. At the end of election day, it is the swinging voters that will decide the immediate future direction of the country. And so it went in 2013 when as a nation we were afflicted with this Coalition government. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 17:30
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Asian shares remain on tenterhooks as mainland Chinese markets remained closed for a holiday and Japanese stock markets reopened sharply down in the wake of the selloff on Wall Street overnight. The USD remains relatively firm against most of the risk currencies with gold largely unchanged, with all the action in Bitcoin this morning as The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Club Troppo
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 16:47
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 15:37
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 15:16
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 15:14
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Prosper Australia
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:46
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The media is again full of chatter about the housing affordability crisis in Australia. Property markets have gone on a tear as mortgage rates bottom at levels close to matching inflation. Governments are subsidising a building boom to save the economy from COVID, and the resulting collapse in immigration. The post Working Together: Is Shared Equity our pathway out of the housing crisis? first appeared on Prosper Australia. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:39
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It seems utterly beyond debate but acknowledging legal rights to clean hair has assumed the makings of a slow march over the years. The 1956 Clean Air Act in Britain arose from the lethal effects of London’s 1952 killer smog, which is said to have taken some 12,000 lives. The Act granted powers to establish… The post The Right to Clean Air in Jakarta appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:30
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Two well known economists have given opposing views on the likely economic recovery once lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne eventually end. Saul Eslake believes that the economic recovery will be swift: Independent economist Saul Eslake told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that Victoria and NSW were in recession but the states’ economies were The post Don’t expect a swift economic recovery this time around appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:13
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:05
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 14:00
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As reported yesterday, the NSW government has sold the remaining 49% stake in the WestConnex toll road to a consortium led by Transurban for $11.1 billion. Transurban had purchased the initial 51% stake for $9.3 billion in 2018. Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims claims that the deal will entrench Transurban’s “monopoly” on The post ACCC slams Transurban ‘monopoly’ appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 13:32
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 13:30
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The Australian Banking Association, Fintech Australia and Bendigo & Adelaide Bank are among those calling for Australia’s anti-money laundering (AML) regime to be broadened. Expansion of the regime would see real estate agents, accountants and lawyers come under the same rules as banks, remitters and wagering firms. Fintech Australia has stated in its submission to The post Banks: extend anti-money laundering rules to property appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Cheeseburger Gothic
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 13:02
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Got a box of these bad boys in the post today. Wasn’t expecting that for a while. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 13:00
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Over 45,000 people are now listed on the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade’s register of stranded Australians who are seeking government help to return home. The number of people on the register has increased in recent months, due to a further tightening of arrival caps and the worsening situation in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s The post More than 45,000 Australians still stranded overseas appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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John Quiggin
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 12:44
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… We need more flexibility. That’s the headline for my latest piece in The Conversation https://theconversation.com/australias-covid-plan-was-designed-before-we-knew-how-delta-would-hit-us-we-need-more-flexibility-168189 (with Richard Holden and Steven Hamilton) Conclusion In these rapidly changing times it makes no sense to fix a policy plan based on a months-old model. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 12:30
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Auckland has been in a strict lockdown since 18 August but has been unable to eliminate the Delta virus: Yesterday, 22 cases were recorded – the third day in a row of over 20 cases. Five of Monday’s cases have yet to be linked, while of Sunday’s cases, six of them were infectious in the The post Did New Zealand just abandon Delta elimination? appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 12:17
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 12:00
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Nothing is more amusing than reading the smartest guys in the room as their theses fall apart. JPM leads us off: The market sell-off that escalated overnight we believe is primarily driven by technical selling flows (CTAs and option hedgers) in an environment of poor liquidity, and overreaction of discretionary traders to perceived risks. However, The post Can the Fed save China? appeared first on MacroBusiness. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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subDocuments show Australia issued numerous warnings that its submarine deal with France was at risk, with a 2020 report from Canberra’s Auditor-General flagging concerns that the agreement was not in the national interest.
If proposed reforms to grid congestion go ahead, they will make Australia a bad place for investment in wind and solar.
Let us look at the extraordinary non-covid changes now happening in China. The country has been reforming rapidly the last 20 months and I want to muse about the trajectory these reforms are setting China upon. Many commentators see in them the start of another Cultural Revolution in China that will end up with millions dead and huge disruption.
A new catalyst has been found to require less energy input in producing hydrogen from waste water, while also reducing the urea content of the fuel source.
Energy trading company Powerledger has been shortlisted by the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Regulator in the next phase for the delivery of the highly a
APA Group joins battle for network owner AusNet with $10bn rival takeover bid, saying a merger would accelerate Australia's energy transition.
Angus Taylor's Coalkeeper subsidy is dead in the water. Or at least it should be. Here are six better ideas that state energy ministers should consider.
Final turbine erected at what will be Australia's biggest wind and solar hybrid energy project.