International Reading:
- Top Economist Warns Trump Tariffs Effectively Impose Tax Rate On Low-Income Households That Is Triple Of High-Income Ones – Bezinga
- ‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years – Fortune
- Low-income Americans being priced out of McDonald’s and wider fast-food industry by soaring prices – Independent
- More Americans Can’t Afford Their Pets – News Week
- DJT Stock Has Cratered, Wiping Out More Than $5 Billion in Trump Family Wealth – Barrons
- America’s deepening affordability crisis summed up in 5 charts – CBS News
- Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds – The Guardian
- The Warning Signal That Preceded Every Crash Since 1929 Just Flashed Again. – UK Investing
- Black Friday is becoming just another Friday – QZ
- ‘Our feet are dangling over the fire.’ Obamacare enrollees brace for soaring costs – USA Today
- Trump’s Long-Shot Quest to Turn the Tide as the Asian Century Rolls On – Bloomberg
- Nvidia CEO Dismisses Concerns of an AI Bubble. Investors Remain Skeptical – Wired
- Housing alarm as half of all US homes fall in value – biggest drop since the Great Recession – Daily Mail
Local Reading:
- CSIRO cuts highlight which jobs the government protects in the national interest – ABC
- Labor MP Ed Husic urges own party to ‘pry open the jaws of Treasury’ after CSIRO announces job cuts – The Guardian
- Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’ – The Guardian
- Australia’s eSafety Commissioner called to testify before US Congress and labelled a ‘zealot’ – ABC
- Australia: Home Affairs issues warning amid student visa integrity threats – PIE News
- Meta to kick teens off Instagram and Facebook a week early as social media ban looms – ABC
- ACCC traces some coloured asbestos sand to a ‘particular quarry in China’ – ABC
- Australia has some of highest consumption rates of ultra-processed foods, researchers say – The Guardian
- Dud superannuation options could cost retirees up to $205,000, Super Consumers warns – ABC
- Economic divide between the North Island and the South Island continues – Infometrics – Interest.co.nz
- All road users should contribute in proportion to their use of NZ roads, Transport Minister says – Interest.co.nz
- Advertised rents on Trade Me Property drop to a two-and-half-year low – Interest.co.nz
- Reserve Bank gets three green lights for OCR cut next week – Interest.co.nz
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MB Media Appearances:
LVO interview with Andrew Bolt at Sky News:
LVO speaks to Phil O’Neil at Radio 2GB/4BC:
LVO interview with Luke Grant at radio 2GB/4BC:
LVO interview with Mike Jeffreys at Radio 2GB/4BC:
