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Global Macro
- Five charts that explain the global economic outlook for 2026 – Guardian
- Oil prices record steepest annual fall since Covid pandemic – Guardian
- The 2025 energy transition in eight charts: clean wins, dirty setbacks – Reuters
- Commodities buffeted by Trump whirlwind seek relief in 2026 – Reuters
Terra Specufestorus
- Record year for Australian beef exports despite Donald Trump’s tariffs – ABC
- ASIC’s remarkable turnaround as the tiger that found its teeth – ABC
- AI powered 2025’s economy to record highs. So why are only robots smiling? – ABC
- Mechanic shortage driving Queensland businesses to look overseas for qualified workers – ABC
- Sydney and Melbourne property markets go backwards as national values hit speed bump – ABC
- Australian meat industry warns China’s new beef tariff impact will be ‘severe’ – ABC
- “Absolutely devastating”. Israel bans aid orgs from Gaza, publishes Aussie antisemites list – Michael West
- Is Albo’s ‘Richardson Review’ into Bondi independent or for a roving insider? – Michael West, Rex Patrick
- Whistleblower urges ASIC to intervene as RACP crisis deepens – Michael West, Stephanie Tran
- This one’s on Netanyahu, not Albanese – Pearls and Irritations, Jack Waterford…….at last someone speaking common sense
- The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it – Guardian, Jericho
- Sticky inflation, metal prices and the AI bubble risk: key trends to watch in the Australian economy in 2026 – Guardian
The rest
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- China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025 – Guardian
- Is Russia close to collapse? Russia vs US wartime budget deficits – BNE Intellinews
- The Real Existential Threat Facing Europe – Project Syndicate
- Signs of trouble in the U.S. economy: Where are all the jobs? – CBC
- The Nexperia crisis: a wake-up call for Europe’s approach to Chinese investment – Bruegel
- Washington Post’s Trumpian Ideology Boils Over – CEPR
- US jobless claims slide to cap a bumpy year for job market – Reuters
- Dire year for dollar has little light at end of tunnel in 2026 – Reuters
- China’s economy looks more resilient than it feels as a property slump drags on – AP
- Resilient US consumers drive strongest economic expansion in 2 years – AP
What the almighty?…….
- ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals – The Conversation
- Did Mark Zuckerberg Throw $77 Billion of Our Money into the Toilet? – CEPR
- AI and systemic risk – VoxEU
- The paradox of perfect supervision – VoxEU
- A nonlinear Phillips curve helps explain the inflation overshoot – VoxEU
- Tariffs and technological hegemony – VoxEU
- Harnessing the wisdom of the crowds for OECD recession predictions – VoxEU
- How foreign wars can consolidate authoritarian power: Evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – VoxEU
Videos
Australian Houses
US Economy (raises some big issues)
Global Economy
Canada and US Beef
Food Supply
China – Taiwan
Australian Terrorists
Trump – NATO – and Europe
Med Diet
Decline Decadence and Civilisation
MBS and Saudi Arabia
Gamificatrion of Markets and trading – I reckon its a thing
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