Miscellaneous

Asian share markets are quite mixed as we go into the final session of the trading week with local shares outperforming.

Perhaps we can be grateful that Australia’s capital city and its national interest policy process are so far gone from sense that no legislation is any longer possible.

Charts thanks to TME.

I would observe this with relief.

Since late December 2025, there have been widespread protests throughout Iran, which were first triggered by the country’s economic woes, including skyrocketing inflation and a catastrophic currency crash.

The burning of the books, along with the rounding up of all intellectuals and historians, are two of the prerequisites for any takeover of a liberal political economy by a tyrant.

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On Friday 2 January 2026 every major media outlet in the country was running the news that 120 Australian Business leaders were calling for the Federal Government to call a Commonwealth Royal Commission into the Bondi Shootings and Anti-Semitism in Australia.

It is the time of year when pundits come out to wrap up the past year and lay the conceptual framework for how they want the world to see the year ahead.

A better finish for Asian share markets in response to a bounce on Wall Street overnight as a softer than expected CPI print was balanced by more evidence of a softening labour market as the US economy slows down due to the Trump regime’s well – “point at everything”….

MB sympathises with all of those affected by yesterday’s Bondi disaster.

My learned colleague, LVO, today argues that wind farms are environmentally destructive.

Merchant.adventurers.of.london · DeepT Nov 25 Australian Inflation Interest Rates and the Need for Economic Policy reform As the Australian economy staggers towards Christmas 2025 with cost of living and energy pressures still hammering the electorate, Deep T and Gunga Din discuss the dynamics surrounding current scope for the RBA to cut interest rates.

Another mixed day for Asian stock markets without a clear lead from Wall Street overnight as political machinations and a few central bank speeches within the region.

We’ve suddenly lurched from AI is unstoppable to a growth scare as jobs data weakens.

The Pilbara killer is here.

Honestly, is there no end to this woke claptrap?

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