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Renew Economy
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 06:00
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Digitopoly
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 00:33
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A prototype is a product or service’s early sample, model, or release. It is built to test a concept or process and serves as a tangible representation of an idea. Some prototypes are primarily commercial, while others are scientific. |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 00:05
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In late 2021, the Labor Party released its Powering Australia Plan, which promised to reduce NEM wholesale electricity costs by $11 per MWh, from $62 to $51, by 2025. Labor claimed that its Powering Australia Plan would save Australians $275 on their residential power bills by 2025 and an additional $103 by 2030. On dozens of The post How many times did Labor lie on energy prices? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
New Politics
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 22:05
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Your Democracy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 17:53
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With Donald Trump overturning assumptions about international order, we must re-examine the fundamentals of our foreign and defence policies. Former Senator and submariner Rex Patrick proposes four ideas to advance the debate. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 17:30
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A sea of red across Asian stock markets in response to the poor finish to the trading week on Friday night on Wall Street with Japanese bourses falling sharply as exporters worry about the next round of Trump tariffs. The USD is losing ground against most of the major currency pairs although the appreciation in The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Renew Economy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 15:14
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Renew Economy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 14:27
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 14:00
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New Zealand’s unemployment rate increased to 5.1% in Q4 2024 from 4.8% in Q3 2024. In comparison, Australia’s unemployment rate was 3.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024 (4.1% in January), the largest difference since Q3 2012. As a result, large volumes of Kiwis have left New Zealand for Australia. New data from Stats NZ, The post Reserve Bank wrestles with surging unemployment appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 13:30
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The idiot MSM is at its gotcha worst. Peter Dutton has again refused to offer a figure for how much power prices would come down under a government he leads, while assuring those prices would nonetheless be lower than they would be under a re-elected Labor government. Assuming Dutton dropped the spot gas price to The post How much will Dutton drop electricity prices? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 13:00
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Iron ore continues its plod sideways as steel falls away. The Office of the Chief Economist’s quarterly forecast is out is an interesting mix of fear and greed. It has finally mustered the courage to include the Pilbara killer in its supply outlook but it has spread the ramp up of shipments very conservatively so The post Iron ore everywhere! appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 12:32
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 12:30
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As we know, the Albanese government is an inveterate liar on most matters of economics. Today, he adds to the ignominious record. Albanese said the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, which enables the government to pressure exporters to release more domestic gas when needed, was working sufficiently. “The spot price is at $13. When we The post Albo protects gas cartel with more lies appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 12:00
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With the federal election campaign in full swing and voters heading to the polls on Saturday 3 May, the first batch of opinion polling has Labor leading the Coalition and Anthony Albanese ahead of Peter Dutton as preferred prime minister. According to a Resolve Political Monitor poll conducted by Nine newspapers, Albanese leads Dutton by The post Albo’s Labor takes early election lead appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:30
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Alan Kohler produced an explainer video for ABC where he summarised Australia’s housing crisis with the following: “We know that dwelling approvals have been in trend decline for 10 years”. “We also know that population growth has been climbing for 20 years driven by a doubling and then tripling of migration”. “This is why we The post Why Australia has a housing crisis appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:00
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The Market Ear on some worrying signals for the bubble. Mother of all trend lines Does this look bullish to you? Big rejection as we tested the 200 day and the huge trend line from below. 50 crossed the 100 day, marking the “light” death cross. NDX 19k is the must hold area. Source: Refinitiv The post Stock bubble ready to burst appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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xkcd.com
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:00
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Renew Economy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 10:57
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 10:30
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The Q4 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts, released earlier this month, showed that the economy edged out of per capita recession after recording 0.1% growth over the quarter. This followed 21 months of consecutive declines in per capita GDP. The Melbourne Institute’s latest nowcast for Australia’s Q1 GDP growth, presented below by Justin The post Australian economy grinds out of recession appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 10:00
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Before the pandemic, Australia had easily the highest concentration of international students in the world. The international student population has continued to surge post-pandemic, with enrolments hitting a record high of 1.095 million in December 2024. Enrolments at end-December 2024 were 143,000 higher than the 2019 pre-pandemic peak and more than triple (749,000) higher than |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 09:30
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I hope the fake left still loves its ABC because it sure doesn’t love them. Jacob Greber is a graduate of the AFR businessomics school of journalism, and he lines up the single most biased piece of junk journalism on the gas debate that I can recall. Is Saul Kavonic, former strategic advisor at Woodside, The post Your ABC turns gas cartel lobbyist appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 09:10
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 09:00
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Good news was bad news for risk markets on Friday night as the April 2 deadline looms with Trump’s call with PM Carney presenting no change in the deadlock as the Canadians announce retaliatory tariffs. The latest US PCE print came in better than expected, but this wasn’t enough to pull USD back against Euro The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 07:58
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CoreLogic’s daily dwellings value index shows that Australian home values across the five major capital cities rose for a second consecutive month, increasing by 0.4% in March. As illustrated above, all major capital city markets recorded rising values in March. Over the first quarter of 2025, values at the 5-city aggregate level rose by 0.5%, The post Aussie house prices rise for second straight month appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 07:49
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Trump says 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine truce talksKieran Burke with dpa, ReutersAmerican broadcaster NBC reported Trump was "pissed off" with Putin over Ukraine and threatened to hit Moscow with secondary tariffs on Russian oil. |
Your Democracy
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 06:55
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The EU will not fulfill Russia’s demand to lift sanctions on the country’s main agricultural bank as part of the Black Sea ceasefire initiative discussed between Moscow and Washington, European Commission Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Anitta Hipper has said. |
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John Quiggin
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 05:44
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 00:05
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Geoff Russ from Canada’s National Post penned a cautionary tale on how out-of-control immigration has degraded Canada’s economy and living standards. The immigration influx, which drove a record 1.2 million increase in Canada’s population in 2023-04, “rocked Canada”, according to Russ: Immigration-driven demand for housing and services vastly outstripped the supply of both, resulting in |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, March 30, 2025 - 17:14
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People like Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have a habit of revealing things we’re not supposed to know about how government operates. They often expose the motives and acts of what many these days call the deep state.
The Deep State Revelations CERCLE by IAIN DAVIS, INDEPENDENT MEDIA ALLIANCE, OFFGUARDIAN
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Your Democracy
Sunday, March 30, 2025 - 15:54
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YOUNG AND OLD PEOPLE OUT THERE MAY NOT KNOW OR MAY NOT REMEMBER NATION REVIEW — A SHORT-LIVED MAGAZINE WITH A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE… ONE OF ITS EDITORS WAS JOHN HEPWORTH… |
