See the latest Australian dollar analysis here:
Quite a mixed session for Asian stock markets following the epic inflation print overnight in the US that is sure to stir risk markets everywhere as appreciating domestic currencies put a dampener on stock markets. The USD remains under pressure against everything although Bitcoin is still stalled at just over the $43K level but gold has held on to its overnight breakout, currently at last week’s intrasession high just below the $1830USD per ounce level, as buying support builds:

Mainland Chinese shares are pulling back sharply going into the close with the Shanghai Composite down 0.6% to 3572 points while the Hang Seng Index is having a pause after its recent surge, currently treading water at 24421 points. Japanese markets however are selling off in response to Yen appreciation following the US inflation print with the Nikkei 225 closing 0.8% lower at 28521 points as the USDJPY pair struggles to find a bottom here at the mid 114 level:

Australian stocks were the relative best performers in the region with the ASX200 closing 0.4% higher at 7472 points while the Australian dollar advanced even further on its big overnight surge, threatening the 73 handle as it turns this breakout into a new monthly high:

Eurostoxx and Wall Street futures are tracking sideways going into the London open, with the S&P500 four hourly chart showing price needing to stay above the previous weekly intrasession highs at the 4700 point level or support will evaporate for another dip:

The economic calendar is US centric again with the latest weekly initial jobless claims print with a series of speeches by Federal Reserve members.
- Macro Afternoon - August 19, 2022
- Macro Morning - August 19, 2022
- Macro Afternoon - August 18, 2022
You’ll be happy to know the renovators have dropped a sprog.
Is your daughter old enough to baby sit in a few years time?
If so that will give you access to their house to exact your revenge.
π
Got a name? Jack (Hammer)?
Just because others wish to tend ***their garden*** as is their want, and it upsets your personal sensibilities, says more about you than them and on top of it that they breed is offensive too boot.
Move away from all of humanity might help or not in your circumstances …. you’ll cry one way or another because the universe did not deliver unto you and you need it …
Da fark you on about bloke
+1 I’m with you Herr Reusa
Early onset dementia.
Definition of “Early”?
lmmaso [email protected] at the mouth responses …
Key factors include person in question having a moment about noise, no mention of counsel regs, just personal observations based on individual feelings and not community standards, person in question has a noise tolerance of keyboard clicks unless doing some light gardening on their own time, hence contra the old hard ozzy battler that can hack out a living in the bush and deal with all it throws at you … it seems a bit weak and suookie … lmmao get him on a horse and start mustering cattle … suburbanites groan …
You leave my mate Harry alone,β¦Buddy.
Da fark you on about bloke?
Share info and opinions but don’t attack people..
Play the ball Skippy not the player, and use that big brain of yours that you claim to UNDERSTAND
Have you noticed he doesnβt post like a spastic on naked capitalist, why are we so special π
^^ cause we don’t buy he’s very special!
And lol every week he has a night like this
I’m sure its the nurse’s night off and no one to remind him to take the chill tablets
diddums’
BTW way I could do it everyday and then some … I just back off to observe.
Ohh look at the groupthink tribalism have a vibration and not consider what was said or its facts … flaccid bloke with cognitive issues by you all ascribe … so romantic …
Since living here for 15yrs the place door has had numerous owners. You guessed it.
Originally a bulldozer job but the first owners of 15 yrs ago (Chinese) did a pretty up band aid Reno. The next (Pommie guy ) extended the rear in the same misalignment bringing the eaves onto the fenceline. The next (Pommie single mum) reno’s plus granny flat and plumbing, elect. The next (Russian) put double story above asbestos roof with beams suitable for a bridge with pillars outside next to fence and packed every small room and space full of tennants of all description. She died now the Armenians are pulling the ceiling and roof down to vastly increase the height below the steel beams and removing the tiny backpacker bedrooms.
A fortune spent on something that was a demolition candidate.
but think of the benefits to GDP! x millions Australia-wide. Who needs to dig holes and fill them up again when you’ve got houses!
Pillars H beams 350mm x 125mm.
Edit,
Got intrigued so had a rough measure
Even bigger than thought. Near 400mm x 175mm.
Groan the U.S. since I was a kid in Arizona, Calif, Colorado, now here ….
Chyna steel perhaps? I’d over-spec if they were….
Mazel Tov!
So they’ve just been nesting? Dog help you when they start Renovating!
Hehehe you’ve got wild imagination
Now haroldus’s neighbors need to add a bedroom.
absolutely , and when the child grows big enough might need new reno to accommodate the extra needs!
Oh dear, now they’ll have go buy a giant Audi SUV. There baby deserves it.
You ready to live next to an Audi owner?
Groundless projections say more about the issuer than those its directed at IMO.
Are you on the p!ss this arvo Skip?
You seem very cranky.
Do you need a cuddle?
Naw but the spastic level is pre rapture … so many ideologues having their world views challenge and blame everyone else but their part in all of it … lmmao I’m all good … its a treat to see them all vibrate out of ignorance …
Yeah you own an Aldi
He’ll be on the angle grinder in no time.
Left-handed angle grinder?
Omicron Update β¦
International data agrees … Dr John Campbell … Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVGymR-jFU&t=1s
Unvaccinated and Omicron – Study from California (Preprint) … Drbeen Medical Lectures … Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0gWB9M8538
Xian is not the exception – It is the norm … Digging for China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GXX_xTTx4
China Finds Omicron in Another Port City, Further Threatening Supply Chains … Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/omicron-spreads-to-second-chinese-port-city-companies-affected?srnd=premium-asia
“Doomed To Fail” – Top Immunologist Blasts Global COVID Response Driven By “False Propaganda”
Professor Ehud Qimron: βMinistry of Health, itβs time to admit failureβ
“Top immunologist”
If you say so
Read his academic profile at Tel Aviv University here: https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/ehudq
He is a full Professor of Immunology after doing postdoctoral studies at Harvard.
What did you think of this distinguished academic’s open letter, RobotSensei?
Nutter that uses his credentials to push and ideological agenda.
It’s funny that the LMNOPQ brigade on here keep pushing all the fringe science stuff but rally behind the credentials of someone who suits their agenda.
He’s got a good name for a future covid variant!
No doubt he’s legit, there is a lot more room for persons with different opinions in science.
Which is strangely not the case in the main stream society, pop media or politics ?
Categorical error to conflate the vax vax vax corporate strategy failures as indicative of the well worn established multilayered response to such events which are backed by historical facts. It was only after the aforementioned took control of public health policies that things started to go down hill, but in reconciling that feature one has to acknowledge the decades of neoliberalism that front ran the whole thing, which diminished both the state and private sector in dealing with an expected fat tail event.
Hugh cant understand that bringing corporatism in to family formation RE by making it a ATM and financial asset is still befuddled, so the developer battle cry is make the land cheaper, not they don’t build in areas that cant support it or are a burden on infrastructure, land bank it, never the less the godfather of it all was Friedman/Stigler back in the day as bought and payed propagandists for the developer lobby and used their academic credentials to burnish it.
M is that you Phil?
βThe Rub. It is the βcapitalist wingβ of modern medicine that has cornered the market for providing professional medical advice to all major govts around the world. Sadistically, that entails an official βmedical sanctioningβ for many diff versions of #LetItRip. #auspol.β
I like this guy,
https://twitter.com/themathendo/status/1481417506376290304?s=21
Did you not read Sciencemart after multiple recommendations?
Sigh … Kennith Arrow FKMEDEAD …
Itβs good to see someone other than Skippy singing the same tune.
But no I havenβt read it or his βnever let a crisis go to wasteβ yet.
But Iβd like to.
I have (Thanks to Skip) consumed every word uttered by Mirowski that I could find on YouTube though.
I suppose thatβll earn me a sigh from Skip too.
He reckons ya gotta read through all the hard stuff.
Whoβs got time for that!
J D Rockefeller started big Phama, say no more.
But Libertarians love them some robber barons and oligarchs aka successful Entrepreneurs[tm] …
This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II.
During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the 1980s, however, this support began to decline and for-profit corporations became the largest funders of research. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but are commodities that could be monetized.
Consequently, patent and intellectual property laws were greatly strengthened, universities demanded patents on the discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among researchers was impeded, and the line between universities and corporations began to blur. At the same time, corporations shed their in-house research laboratories, contracting with independent firms both in the States and abroad to supply new products. Among such firms were AT&T and IBM, whose outstanding research laboratories during much of the twentieth century produced Nobel Prize-winning work in chemistry and physics, ranging from the transistor to superconductivity.
Science-Mart offers a provocative, learned, and timely critique, of interest to anyone concerned that American science–once the envy of the world–must be more than just another way to make money.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10160571-science-mart
OK EP so the first sentence is pivotal and lays the foundations to how – we – got to this place and how its so socially dis-functional – destroying capital. The critical issue is the role the state plays in both social formation and its function as a bargaining table for all parties of said social construct e.g. bargaining power in negotiations i.e. in the U.S. case see SCOTUS citizens united aka corporations and not voters means the political system does not respond to anyone else other than the money classes. Best part of all this is the libertarian aspect was funded by the same sorts, liberals joined the party with Bill Clinton, Blair, and in our own case Keating.
I thought you liked Keating?
Nobody likes Keating, do they?
@sweeper … ugh your blind.
Who has the time to be informed before voting when that day suxasslong and one just wants escape the media offers … Bernays wins … you get told what to want to offset irrational fears instilled by advertising … after your told your not good enough for the market and the market is never wrong …
What difference does being a more fully informed voter really make when you donβt really live in a democracy.
Did you miss the class where various notions of democracy where discussed and there was not one form of it – ????
Ideally the AEC (impartial entity) would have a website that could show how a ballot cast with candidates in order; would play out in the preferential voting system.
Anyone good at coding ?
Direct democracy via an app … lmmao
Barry Mulligan
@BazzaCC
Β·
4h
I was arrested this morning for impersonating Scott Morrison.
I was just sitting there doing nothing!! π³π³π π
https://twitter.com/BazzaCC/status/1481435196289617925
Further down on that β¦β¦a good line
β Iβm confused. Do we report when we test positive to a rapid test, or do we report when we find one?β
Nice remix of a Billy Joel Classic.
https://youtu.be/EuXyyD1aJOM
Meanwhile the front page of the Tele has a exclusive with ex NRL footballer Craig Field getting out of jail.
The Libs and their Murdoch mates going full smokescreen.
Meanwhile the front page of the Tele has a exclusive with ex NRL footballer Craig Field getting out of jail.
Well that’s the Sydney readership locked down, the rest of the country are going “who’s that?”
The moral of the story is RoboSensai. we
The country is in disarray with supply chain issues and the hospitals falling apart and then the Daily Tele release a story of footie player who has been picking up soap for the last 10 years.
The editors of the Tele deserve a good old rogering with one of Ermoβs pipes and some barb wire.
Don’t forget the Dettol for cleanup.
The 25 litres per minute @5000 psi coming outa the jetter would probably be a more practical punishment.
Start with the screwdriver head and Finnish with the root ranger,
https://youtu.be/FBqE0PmP19U
Nice Jetta action.
My mate has something similar and cleaned out the RedEcoβs storm water pipes last year.
It was like a VW engine going full bore.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/data-shows-australians-have-reduced-movement-but-not-to-lockdown-levels/news-story/9377d205e4ee778c901f301449bfd581
Congrats Scomo, you managed to lockdown the country without a cent of support to the plebs
You are lucky Ermo to have all these people lining to be your neighbours
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/renting/mayhem-hundreds-of-renters-turn-up-to-sydney-house-inspection/news-story/b1c1488fb6a0648125c61144a9f5816d
Hey!,β¦Ermoβs not in the South west mate.
We are on the Northern bank of the Parramatta river.
That makes us North Shore ya Pleb.
Where abouts are you situated in the world Phantom?
The Reals Estate Agents call Ol Toonie the Outer North Shore.
My missus grew up in Toongabbie
In Octavia St before it all became appartments.
Dandenong Ranges in Victoria,
I apologise to mislocate you,
Still impressive line of tenants fighting over a rental, must be Reusa’s house
Nah just ScoMo’s Hunger Games have started.
And we’re so desperate for something to eat he’s already got us fighting over rats.
Scott White admits to murdering Scott Johnson, solving one of Sydney’s longest-running [email protected] hate crimes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/scott-johnson-murder-scott-white-admits-to-killing/100755034
Fair Work Ombudsman recovers nearly $20,000 in wages for Adelaide cleaners
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/wages-recovered-by-fair-work-for-adelaide-cleaners/100754472
How Omicron is shutting down huge swathes of Australia’s economy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/covid19-omicron-economy-supply-chains-workers-rats/100753740
Dozens of new charges laid against man accused of Wisconsin Christmas parade deaths
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/dozens-of-charges-added-to-wisconsin-parade-deaths/100754024
NSW Police arrest four, seize more than $8m cash as part of alleged international money laundering operation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/nsw-police-arrest-four-seize-8-million-alleged-asia-crime-ring/100753958
House prices in NSW just clocked a negative because of this.
Mark McGowan brings in HUGE restrictions for the unvaccinated https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10397557/Premier-Mark-McGowan-brings-Covid-vaccine-passports-WA.html
Wonder if TAB has a line on whether McGowan indeed opens up WA on 5 Feb? Somehow I doubt it.
And its all for their own good of course. Gotta protect them from themselves.
It’s nothing more than another psycho politician exercising power because he can and it feels so delicious.
If somebody shot him I’d open a bottle of champagne.
we will drink together and start fund raising to fund the shooters defense
what McGowan does is criminal
what defense has anybody who does not want to be vaccinated, maybe only self defense
society is on a very dangerous path
Best leader in the nation by a country mile.
if someone shot you, I’d open a bottle of domestic sparkling wine.
You’re not worth the good stuff.
Daniel Andrews takes swipe at Novak Djokovic’s stance on vaccinations https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10397069/Novak-Djokovic-Daniel-Andrews-takes-swipe-tennis-stars-stance-vaccinations-Australia.html
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/chinese-authorities-slam-kfc-for-arousing-panic-buying-after-man-caught-ordering-106-meals/news-story/43b5827279aae51385c678a412939ab2
Someone say kfc ?
Went for a Kayak from St Kilda up to Middle Park and back.
No traffic at peak hour. Like the Melbourne of old.
(Donβt call it a Lockdown)
Edit: Taking Boomerβs advice.
Yep!
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/data-shows-australians-have-reduced-movement-but-not-to-lockdown-levels/news-story/9377d205e4ee778c901f301449bfd581
Itβs a a private sector led jobs and growth lockdown
Back in Back-in!
Peak Melbourne early 2000s
Ride to work at Church St from Hampton and Sandy
Ride home
Cliff top run Red Bluff stair reps or down to half moon or mordy and back then a swim at Sandy
Sandy pub for cheap snitters and pots and Thursday karaoke
No aggro on the road
Racing on the weekend around hanging rock and newham in the northern combine or no-traffic runs to Juc , Bella and 13th to catch the N wind
No traffic , rip curl and quikky seconds still cheap, no urban sprawl
Double breaks at RMIT at the Oxford or $1 black Jack at Crown
Good times
Broken Head a bit wild today, trying Wategos or the pass tomoz, Omicron abounds as does lack of risk management by the dills there
Can I add Wednesday afternoon sailing series, with boats from St Kilda, Brighton & Williamstown?
(For all northerners, yep it was Fkn cold & miserable most of the time.)
Definitely!
2021 is better but, because 2021 Demons
Are you sure posting here and simultaneously having a life are compatible? Have you checked your shut-in status with footsie in the last 12-months?
Sure! Surf tomorrow AM, home, have a ride or
Run, hang with kids for rest of day
Maybe off to buy a ride on mower and do shopping day
Back ro work Monday
Ride on mowers, itβs all in the transmission and not all are the same. Most are Tuff Torq K46 these days and couldnβt pull a skin off a custard.
Swampy. Not a zero-turn?
Church Road (NZ)
CSM
2015
(fck’n)
According to ABC Breakfast News, NSW MPs are getting 20 free Rapid Antigen Tests a week.
Sucks to be a pleb eh?
Happy and clappy.
https://purplesneakers.com.au/2022/01/news-hillsong-youth-festival-rat-test-all-attendees/
And some more
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/music-festivals/hillsong-youth-summercamp-shows-large-crowds-singing-dancing-maskless/news-story/6197ab42b5ed473cd18b9d928c7e8254
That would only be if they were also testing them for STDs.
A nine bladed sword ?
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/prime-minister-scott-morrison-announces-major-changes-to-close-contact-isolation-rules-for-essential-workers/news-story/f3ffc4c2e5f619c5267e4fe4e999481b
Real estate agents are included in the list….shows ScoMo’s priorities
This is going to make things worse by spreading COVID inside workplaces. A shocking decision.
This will become the norm – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10393501/Outrage-Covid-positive-workers-Woolworths-supplier-forced-work-wear-yellow-hairnets.html
Don’t buy meat from Woolies as it might be laced with COVID.
I think he has given up on trying to win the election and is now just about shovelling pork to his owners in the hope they look after him when he is thrown out.
Did they run out of stars?
China is taking the other extreme in COVID lockdown.
https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/01/13/customers-forced-to-live-in-china-store-after-some-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/
Interesting collection of emails. Early on scientists were puzzled about structure of virus and the mysterious furin cleavage site (which helps it infect humans). They could not see how this could occur naturally.
Fauci and the establishment ensures these voices were not heard
https://technofog.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-early-beliefs
Why omicron likely came out of a lab. It appears not to be a descendant of the other strains, but rather a cousin – with a common ancestor yet to be discovered. This as well as several other oddities suggest it was likely engineered.
https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20