The war in Ukraine starts to escalate.

Evidence:

1. On April 11 Russia destroyed the largest power plant in Kyiv 1/

Quite a solid response.

BREAKING:

WSJ: Hxmas acknowledges it lacks sufficient living Israeli captives for a deal, with intelligence indicating most hostages are deceased. The group delays negotiations fearing exposure of its deceit about captive status.

It’s a risk that isn’t going away.

Summers sees ‘serious risk’ rates could go up in the US afr.com/markets/equity…

'US considering dropping Julian Assange prosecution, Joe Biden says' Sky News news.sky.com/story/us-consi…

“The 3-month annualized change in supercore inflation is now over 8% and accelerating… The 6-month annualized change is 6%, and the year-over-year change is 5%… We are sticking to our view that the Fed will not cut rates in 2024”

Apollo’s Torsten Slok

While CPI inflation is at 3.5%, inflation is much higher in many basic necessities:

1. Car Insurance Inflation: 22.2%
2. Transportation Inflation: 10.7%
3. Car Repair Inflation: 8.2%
4. Hospital Services Inflation: 7.5%
5. Homeowner Inflation: 5.9%
6. Rent Inflation: 5.7%
7.…

This is not 'the coolest thing!'
This is utter control.
Please, don't ever get this. Learn the lessons from the Covid experiment.

Surprised this ruling doesn’t receive more media attention? Then again..

The ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence index fell by 0.9 points to 81.9 points last week. The index has held below 85 points for a record 62 weeks, worse than the 1990s recession.

#ausecon #auspol CommSec

What is the biggest problem facing Australia today?

#Auspol #housingmarket #CostOfLiving #energy #climate

SQM Research's figures confirm what my preliminary auction numbers reported over the weekend, Sydney and Melbourne auction markets are seemingly weakening significantly.

Melbourne final auction results:
Week ending 7 April, 2024
SQM Research

Final clearance rate was 48.7% from 898 scheduled auctions.

Preceding week - 51.4% from 387 auctions.

Same week, last year - 48.3% from 176 auctions (Easter).…

Hamas Negotiators have reportedly told International Meditators in Cairo that it has No Ability to Release the 40 Hostages in the Humanitarian Category (Women, Children, and Elderly) that were included in yesterday’s Ceasefire Proposal because out of the 136 Hostages that remain…