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Macro Afternoon
Asian stock markets are mixed again with Japanese
In defence of Novak Djokovic
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has warned reigning
Did the energy bubble just burst?
It may well have, certainly for coal. Thermal
Macro Afternoon
Asian stock markets have rebounded after the US
….and will Australia’s borders for tourists, agricultural coolies, and students – not to mention Stranded Australians – be opened before then?….
Australian population unlikely to be vaccinated until end of next year
https://www.theage.com.au/national/australian-population-unlikely-to-be-vaccinated-until-end-of-next-year-20210413-p57ivo.html
Who cares as long as SFM and Co got their Pfizer low cholesterol injections the rest can wait…and be very lucky if we got the high cholesterol clot forming other vaccine
Are your wife and daughter still os?
I think they got back a couple of weeks ago.
What happened to commentary for Macro Afternoon??
Sorry dude, Chris is on a break, and I wouldnt give a knob of nannygoat poop for my own market commentary.
I can observe that almost all things are on a little ripper given the USD back off. Like DLS I very much tend to buy the idea that the US will lead things from here, and that their economic rebound will bring their dollar and commodities they deploy back front and square, as the macro backdrop.
Beyond that I would observe that the Aussie Dollar twin head might be the mother of all sell signals for my own benighted land – but only an idiot would try and trade on that basis.
Whilst you’re in the mood.. Is it a good idea to extract the equity in ones house and use it to 10x leverage into cryptocurrencies and NFT art? Asking for a friend.
No, it is a better idea to wait until later in the year as Australian house prices surge ever higher, then to sell out and plough the entire wad into Russian Roubles, which will receive another kicking after another range of sanctions are announced this eve (including banning US Banks from buying Russian Government bonds [OFZs]), but otherwise wont have much impact on an otherwise surprisingly resilient Russian economy which at this moment probably has about the strongest underlying position of any major economy in the world courtesy of a decades worth of previous financial sanctions.
I should add that your truly deranged hard core speculative type could take a peek at Russian houses, and Russian University courses, as potentially superb value in a world looking rather Mr Creosote-ish.
Nobody – Absolutely nobody – should construe anything written here as trading advice.
Spot on RF. Over.
Roubles/Russia doesn’t sound cryptoey enough.
Or.. I could buy a one of a kind virtual hoodie for $30000 aud! It’s an investment!
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/apr/15/virtual-hoodie-sells-non-fungible-token-nft-overpriced?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I have a friend whose wife…she’s Chinese and likes a flutter…..persuaded him to extract all the equity in their house and invest in the booming share market. He’s not that kinda guy and wanted to buy a bigger house for their young family, but “happy wife, happy life” so he did as ordered. This was back around 2008, literally weeks before the GFC kicked off. Their newly purchased high value shares turned to dust, and thirteen years later they are still living in the same small cramped townhouse they started out with that barely held their three kids, only today the kids are at still at home and in their early twenties. Five adults in an inadequate house, and they’ve only just paid off the debt from the blown-up shares they bought in 2008.
Why they’re still married I don’t know.
I say this as a cautionary tale.
Not Sunrise viewers then?
(anyone who gets that reference probably only recently bought a house and deserves/needs a hug too – happy to oblige 🙋)
No BTC chart?
there now
And the Dogecoin meme, because the meme is more important than the chart.
https://i.redd.it/vcdgo12b64t61.jpg
LOL my Dogecoin has increased by 400% 🙂 But I only bought $10 worth a couple of months ago. Should have bought more!
400% or 4000%, it doesn’t matter, for Dogecoin is not bought to sell; it is bout to HODL. That is until the memes say otherwise.
Correct I’m HODLING! 😀
CB is on leave. RF is moonlighting on his 6th other job outside his full-time work.
Thanks RF>
Hear hear!
Wait, I’m putting my hearing aid, what did he say?
Well. Played. Sir.
Crypto non grifty
New Zealand’s housing hell … watch them flee to Australia in droves …
Todays REINZ report for March …
Housing market heading for the stratosphere as prices and sales volumes rocket up … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/109957/housing-market-heading-stratosphere-prices-and-sales-volumes-rocket
https://reinz.co.nz/residential-property-data-gallery
Prime TV last evening investigative programme on New Zealand’s apartment construction disaster ‘A living hell; Apartment disasters’ full programme just posted on its website. Essential viewing …
A living hell: Apartment disasters (trailer and full doco) … Prime TV New Zealand
https://www.primetv.co.nz/a-living-hell-apartment-disasters
… catch up with the latest residential rental trends in Australia …
Melbourne could soon become the cheapest city for renters, while Canberra remains the most expensive … Gareth Hutchens … Australian Broadcasting Corporation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/melbourne-could-be-cheapest-city-for-renters-domain-rent-report/100068780
I’m really suffering from the loss of Carla Zampatti. I can’t believe it’s not being talked about here as her passing and funeral today represents the end of an era in fashion and design.
Everyone I know is crushed by this and it’s the most important news going around. The people I know are the sort of people everyone looks up to so they represent the right way to feel about these things.
Not only was Carla a fashion icon she was on the board of SBS for many years and promoted vibrancy and a boosted intake of good foreign types maybe to try and improve the failings of inbred Australians. We need many many more of her!
This is the sort of common regular Australia needing to be bred out –
https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/family-monster-how-depraved-incest-patriarch-raped-daughters-and-fathered-their-children/news-story/453a2f23e0ea8a2d0565c5dfff0cbcf6
I’m into relations but this is all the wrong sort, way wrong!
Kreeping it in the familiar
Relations with relations is a bridge too far
for you ?
Probably OK so long as they’re not _his_ relations.
There is some good man deep inside him, unfortunately housing disease (a sickness of being attached to realestate) caused him to be like that.
From my medical experience, housing disease highly contagious and affects you bad look at fat wolverine for example
That’s some heavy stuff…
https://youtu.be/myhnAZFR1po
I have seen snippets of that film, but haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the entire thing. Just heard stories. Sometimes stories are enough. Squeal like a pig boy!
Good to know you have a standard, somewhere, that shouldn’t be crossed.
Standards? No.. more like guidelines than actual rules in the case of Reusa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ojK9Q_ARE
Yeah. Thats disgusting. I have heard it from a teacher friend of mine that its more popular then we like to believe. Apparently, teachers are notorious for spotting this kind of stuff in there students when they arrive. If I remember correctly, I think ‘Down Syndrome’ is one of the things. I think she told me that almost every year, you at least see someone like that.
ha… NSW. Marriages so expensive its cheaper to become a homosexual. Relations so expensive with your Wife that its cheaper to just have it off with your own daughter lol.
Poor kids.
There is no correlation between what you think and what is.
Lol! Chapeau!
You mean hats off, snipper – recently remarried
Watch your 6
Best to just ignore him Ginge
Took me a while to realise you didn’t mean LWSCHP. (facepalm).
NSW woman, 48, dies a week after getting Covid-19 vaccine https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9473583/NSW-woman-48-dies-week-getting-Covid-19-vaccine-developing-blood-clots.html
https://youtu.be/9PVbgMLjAc4
Watchgate
Mysogyson knows how to roll the price
India records more than 200,000 daily COVID-19 cases as hospitals battle shortages of beds and oxygen
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/india-breaches-200-000-daily-covid-19-cases/100072816
Dance troupe 101 Doll Squadron defends performance at HMAS Supply launch in Sydney
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/hmas-supply-101-doll-squadron-defends-performance/100070954
Same tactics ABC does to edit asian looking supporters out of [email protected] [email protected] footage
Well now…
Is that from Dusk till Dawn?
If the edited out supporters looked like that, One Nation woukd have casting senate votes.
Well, well, well, if the edited out supporters looked like that, One Nat ion woukd have casting senate votes.
Honestly, who gives a sh!t if the GG and Chief of Navy were there or not? Angus Houston was there, and his face said it all.
These poor girls were asked to perform by some numpty in ADF Events Management and decide, of all things, to do an overtly sexual twerking dance. Nothing wrong with that, but a bit cringe to do it for the commission of a Naval ship. It’s not their fault and It’s not the ABC’s fault – they merely captured the footage and most people I have spoken to are asking WTF that dance was all about?
Clotty would be at pains to distance himself and his government as far as possible from any inappropriate sexualisation of women so the whole “blame the ABC” media trope would be a welcome distraction – come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was engineered by the PMO to keep it at arms length from the government.
It’s a cultural thing.
Cultural my twerking ass.
Wage theft rife in Adelaide’s Chinatown, Fair Work Ombudsman says after spot checks
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/sa-fair-work-checks-into-chinatown/100070872
It is not yet known whether the 48-year-old received the AstraZeneca vaccine – which has been linked to blood clots overseas – or the Pfizer vaccine.
Eastern Young Cattle Indicator hits historic high, putting ‘massive’ pressure on meat processing industry
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/beef-prices-eastern-young-cattle-indicator-record-price-meat/100071752
Inflation
Covid-19 denier dies from virus after hosting illegal events in Norway https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9473815/Covid-19-denier-dies-coronavirus-hosting-illegal-gatherings-Norway.html
Stop work from home.
I disagree, Working from home means less congested roads, better environment and longer life for vehicles.
And I can travel between jobs quicker 😆
Coinbase shares……anyone here diving in?
There is a push on…….ARK joining in
https://twitter.com/TESLAcharts/status/1382489359404908546
Bill Hwang was a big believer in Ark.
what happens to their market cap when the government bans all bitcoin accounts?
It’ll go to the moon? That’s how everything else works with Crypto..
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
‘Cause one’s got a weasel and the other’s got a flag
One’s on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
Absurdism eat your record contract out
Thank goodness you don’t need to shave*. 😝
(*dark or otherwise)
Illegal gold allegedly exchanged for vaccines in Brazil; Sao Paulo officials warn of system ‘collapse’ – When FIATs in doubt, Gimme Gold – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/illegal-gold-reportedly-exchanged-for-vaccines-in-brazil/100071756
You are a waste of everything. Ever got any call right?
Yeah yeah… Golds gonna fall. I know where your going with that sling.
But yeah, ah… You making money right now? I am. Actually, I was thinking I should be buying shares in Domino’s Pizza lol I think Im there best customer.
Tradings a matter of Timing Mig. Long GU as of this time. Just waiting for the swing. Give it an hour or so and I might not be. Its all about the timing.
So its trading calls your interested in. Sounds fair, I suppose. Do you trade currencies at all?
how can bitcoin be a safe asset when it’s not an obligation of the monopoly issuer of violence?
Don’t white knight me
I doxxed myself and I still ain’t got a call
This is a Melbourne thing, right?
Come on down and find out…
Mascot Towers owners urged to sell as developers express interest in demolishing beleaguered block
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-15/mascot-towers-owners-urged-to-sell-as-developers-circle/100073040
This what you were referring to?
Might be a good time to get the painters and decorators in.