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I want to share with you an email I received today from someone who fancies their self as an astute analyst. This person falls far short of astute in my opinion, but the thinking revealed in the email does reflect the views held by many Americans with respect to what happened today in Washington when Trump met with Zelensky and his European pimps.

Is Trump Making a Bad Bet by Counting on Europe to Keep Ukraine Afloat?

The Australian recently published Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) data showing that there is an abundance of applicants per job. This suggested that concerns surrounding labour shortages are overblown. At the aggregate economy level, there were 29.3 applications per vacancy, 9.4 qualified applicants per vacancy and 4 suitable applicants per vacancy: As illustrated below by Justin

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It took Melbourne 165 years to hit a population of 3.5 million at the turn of the century. Over the first 25 years of this century, Melbourne’s population has grown by nearly 2 million, causing immense strain on housing, infrastructure, services, law and order, and overall living standards. The state government has also been buried

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Geopolitics again dominated the newsflow overnight, although the latest Canadian CPI print gave off a bit of a reverberation across currency markets with the USD pushing most of the majors down slightly as the Loonie almost went back to its recent monthly low. European stocks rallied while Wall Street pulled back on mixed home sales

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Solar and batteries play directly to Australia’s strengths. But to make the transition work, we also need to address leaky homes and inefficient appliances.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer advised Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky on how to avoid another confrontation at the White House, NBC News reported on Monday.

Zelensky is in Washington for negotiations with US President Donald Trump and Kiev’s key European backers. His previous visit in February was cut short after a heated exchange with Trump and US Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office.

Advocates of ever-higher Pentagon spending frequently argue that we must throw more money at the department to “support the troops.” But recent budget proposals and a new research paper issued by the Quincy Institute and the Costs of War Project at Brown University suggest otherwise.

Join ABB, GridBeyond and Renew Economy for a webinar on how industry can use batteries to cut their energy costs without the burden of large upfront investments.

Senior Queensland Labor politician and former deputy premier of the Sunshine State named as the new chief executive officer of the Clean Energy Council.

Western Australia coal town seeks to add a third big battery to its regional grid, this one attached to a small solar farm.

I have been posting stuff on the Blotreport for over eight years now, and I receive an enormous amount of spam, sometimes up to 60 a day, which my wonderful spam filter invariably catches. When I started back in early 2017, a fair proportion of the spam was porn, both gay and straight. That eventually faded away and was replaced, strangely, by several other themes, including a spate of “buy a house in Bali” spam. That was fairly short-lived, and was replaced even more bizarrely by “get a diploma in Moscow, which faded fairly recently, although the occasional one still crops up.

The Market Ear on bearish seasonality. Two-faced market Market sentiment surveys and hedge fund positioning data continue to be far from exuberant, but there is of course still an insane amount of buying going on. Let’s have a look at the latest in terms of flow and positioning data out over the weekend, and why

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