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MB over the Christmas break
It is hard to believe that MacroBusiness is heading into its tenth Christmas. What started off as a side project between a hand full of bloggers has turned into a full fledged independent media site. Alas, with the Christmas and New Years period commencing, MacroBusiness will head into hibernation next week with only Links posted
MB over Christmas and New Year
Thanks everyone for the support in what was an incredibly difficult year across the globe. We are incredibly impressed with Australians’ handling of the pandemic, which has been world-beating in many respects. And with vaccine rollouts imminent, brighter days beckon as we enter 2021. Dave, Chris and I hope you all enjoy a happy and
Sunday Supplement: 16 August 2020
‘Factories on the Yarra’, 1928, Aletta Lewis, Art Gallery of NSW Macro & Markets Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in U.S. TikTok operations within 90 days – Reuters A faltering U.S.-China trade deal is now the nations’ strongest link – Reuters Trump admits he’s blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes – AP
Sunday Supplement: 5 July 2020
‘Valley of Tharwa, Murrumbidgee’, J.R. Jackson, 1925, National Gallery of Victoria Macro & Markets Big Oil’s Nightmare Is Coming True – OilPrice A $10 Trillion Fed Balance Sheet Is Coming – Bloomberg $10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN – Guardian Three strikes against the Fed – VoxEU, Buiter
MB Fund smashes it in 2019
2019 was a banner year for investment returns. Our own funds performed well throughout the year, highlighted by our growth fund up 17.8%*. This puts it in the top 4 growth superannuation funds according to researcher Chant West: Other Nucleus funds also had significant gains, our International direct share portfolio led with 27.2% returns over
Trial the new MB beta site
For you wonderful members. We’re near launching a new site with upgraded comments section and membership management. Same old design so don’t get too excited. Here’s the link if you’d like have a play around. It would be helpful if you check that your membership works! Note that as a beta site it won’t retain
MB over the Christmas Break
Merry Christmas MB readers and thank you for another interesting year. Here’s our schedule over the Christmas break and January 2018: Tuesday 25th Dec – 1st January links only. Wed 2nd January to 4th January full posting by Chris Becker. Mon 7th January to 11th January full posting by David Llewellyn-Smith and Chris Becker. Mon
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MB over the Christmas break
Merry Christmas MB readers and thank you for another interesting year. Here’s our schedule over the Christmas break and January 2018: Mon 25th Dec – 2nd January links only. Tues 3rd January to 5th January full posting by Chris Becker with support from Damien Klassen. Mon 8th January to 12th January full posting by Leith
In praise of Leith van Onselen
Every idiot is claiming the 457 visa cut as their own: The truth, yeh, whatever. Anyone that tracks the debates knows that only one person in this God forsaken village of idiots can claim to have positively influenced the immigration debate over a long period of time and his name is Leith van Onselen. Every
MB over the Xmas break
Merry Christmas MB readers. Here’s our schedule over the break: 24th Dec – 1st January links only with Chris Becker 2nd Jan – 15th Jan full posting by Chris Becker with support from Damien Klassen 16th Jan – 29th full posting with Leith van Onselen and CB with support from DK 30th Jan normal transmission resumes
Introducing Damien Klassen, new blogger and MB fundie
After spending the past six years focused on defining economies, markets and policy for investors, MB has decided to create a direct investment fund, for readers who would rather we manage their investments for them. This is something we have discussed for some time with readers who have responded enthusiastically (indeed it was your idea!). In conjunction
Vote in MB’s 2016 Most Sackable list
Introducing a new year end segment at MB in which we have listed our most inept individual and collective aylites for you to vote on to “fire”, Donald Trump style, for this year’s under-performance. It’s pretty simple. We’ve listed our chosen many. You choose your top five. Then we’ll publish the list in priority order next
MB Radio: The Trump revolution Downunder
With the Brexit vote in June and the Donald Trump win in the U.S. Presidential election in November 2016 delivering an electoral riposte to a generation of increasing globalisation, Gunnamatta spoke with David Llewellyn- Smith and Leith Van Onselen about how the Australian economy is currently positioned, and of the implications for Australian economic policy
Having trouble accessing MB?
Dear readers, We’ve received a number of notifications that some are having difficulty accessing MB since we adjusted our ad set-up a few weeks ago. Can you please describe any problems you are having in the comments below, including advising us on the nature of the problem, as well as what devices and browsers (including
MB price rise
Dear readers, MB is going to raise the price of a subscription from $149 to $199 on August 1, 2016. The price rise will apply to all subscribers and auto-renewals as they fall due. The main reason for this is the ongoing structural shift in the advertising market. Display advertising space which we used to sell
Survey: Would you like MB to manage your super? (iPhone fixed)
Another day, another financial planning or trading scandal it seems. Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie, Westpac, ANZ, National Australia Bank, none of our largest institutions appear immune. There is an inherent problem. While investment is usually done using knowledgeable, regulated and (for the most part) intelligent fund managers, the problem comes when you insert a sales person
Merry Christmas from MB
Dear readers, Chris Becker will begin skeleton posting December 29th before resuming full time from January 4th. Leith returns mid-January. From Leith, Chris and myself have a Merry Christmas and safe festive season. Thank you for being so supportive across 2015. Warm regards, David Llewellyn-Smith (H&H)
So, this marketing guy wants me to ask you something…
Do you think we do a good job? We’ve never sought testimonials from our readers. Personally, it’s always been my not-so-humble opinion that if we keep doing good journalism and if you keep coming back, that should be enough. But this marketing guy (that we hired) wants me to collect some testimonials, to use on marketing