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I Spent 3 Days at Jordan Peterson’s Anti-Climate ARC Conference. Here’s What I Saw.The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is the global far-right Woodstock, with political and thought leaders mingling with the business elite, conservative nobodies — and me.

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Amid speculation that developer interest is waning, federal energy minister confirms he has four projects vying for a spot in Australia's sixth offshore zone.

RBA reform has failed. The only reason it was initiated was the central bank’s total failure to forecast the sun coming up for a decade. As I have argued many times, the primary reason for the failure is the self-inflicted fatwa against mentioning immigration. This is central to the perpetuation of the intrinsically corrupt immigration-led

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My latest piece in The Conversation is one of six looking at changes in various aspects of Australian life since the turn of the century. Most of it is a recounting of the history, but I have a few things to say at the end about the information economy

The Market Ear with an amusing set-up for equities. The humans have turned bearish. The robots want to buy! Massive MOVE Bond volatility has sold off aggressively over the past sessions. Source: Refinitiv SPX and bond volatility We have not seen such a big move lower in bond volatility and SPX not catching bids, at

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I have repeatedly labelled the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) a terrible deal for Australia that massively favours the US and disadvantages Australia. The Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU conducted a study of the Australia-US FTA, and found that a decade after signing, the agreement has diverted more trade than it

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DXY is maybe going to bounce. AUD got an RBA wake up call from jobs. Lead boots continue to stroll to Mar-A-Lago. Oil CTAs threatening. Sell copper before Goldman does. Big miners caput. EM meh. Junk serene is bad news for stocks. Yields eased though. As did stocks. RBA futures have nearly added three cuts

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Last night saw the Bank of England and Swiss Central Bank meetings, the latter cutting while the former is looking to ease soon as concerns over the Trump Trade War continue to mount across the financial complex. Wall Street pulled back slightly while European stocks had a broader selloff albeit still near their recent highs.

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China (31.5% of total), the United States (13.0% of total) and India (8.1% of total) are the world’s three largest carbon emitters. In 2023, these three nations accounted for more than half (52.6%) of the world’s carbon emissions. As illustrated above, China and India are rapidly growing their emissions while the developed world is cutting

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As we know, Australian industry has been dying for decades. So much so that we leading the OCED into industrial oblivion. Now, the death of Australian industry is at hand. Bloomberg. Near the Indonesian city of Surakarta, a one-time royal capital on the island of Java that’s long been known for producing elaborate fabrics, dozens

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