Unveiling Financial Insights for Tomorrow
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it Last month’s Labour Force data release for April 2024, revealed that the Australian labour market was starting to weaken in the face of the fiscal squeeze (the government announced a second successive annual fiscal surplus on Tuesday) and the 11 interest rate hikes since May 2022.…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Maybe Baby Boomers Won’t Tank the Stock Market by Cashing Out: The common wisdom has been that retirees will liquidate their holdings in…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it The Bank of England is, arguably, at the end of the road as far as currently agreed methods of monetary stimulus are concerned. Interest rates are at their effective floor – in the UK, as understood by the Monetary Policy Committee – 0.1 per cent. QE…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it Options for preserving and delivering new council homes for the twenty-first century Over almost four and a half decades since its introduction in 1980, the right-to-buy scheme has had a transformative impact on our homes and our lives. Over two million homes have been sold to…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it The historical dust has not settled, but at this moment it seems clear that a proletariat which does not embrace Marxism is entirely possible. Why not, then, Marxism without a proletariat? In a thoughtful article, “Radical Chains: The Marxian Concept of Proletarian Mission” (Studies on the…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it Inputs to residential construction, goods less food and energy, increased for the sixth consecutive month, according to the most recent producer price index published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index for inputs to residential construction, goods less food and energy, represents building materials…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it I haven’t much time free today and with the federal government’s fiscal statement coming out tomorrow night and wage data and the labour force data coming out Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, it is going to be a full week. Given I am using all my time…
rewrite this article, remove all links, and reformat it Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Modern Curse of Overoptimization: My current working definition of overoptimization goes like this: overoptimization has occurred when the introduction of immense amounts of information into a human system produces conditions that…