A sea of red across Asian stock markets in response to the poor finish to the trading week on Friday night on Wall Street with Japanese bourses falling sharply as exporters worry about the next round of Trump tariffs.

New Zealand’s unemployment rate increased to 5.1% in Q4 2024 from 4.8% in Q3 2024. In comparison, Australia’s unemployment rate was 3.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024 (4.1% in January), the largest difference since Q3 2012.

The idiot MSM is at its gotcha worst.

Iron ore continues its plod sideways as steel falls away.

As we know, the Albanese government is an inveterate liar on most matters of economics.

With the federal election campaign in full swing and voters heading to the polls on Saturday 3 May, the first batch of opinion polling has Labor leading the Coalition and Anthony Albanese ahead of Peter Dutton as preferred prime minister.

Alan Kohler produced an explainer video for ABC where he summarised Australia’s housing crisis with the following: “We know that dwelling approvals have been in trend decline for 10 years”.

The Market Ear on some worrying signals for the bubble.

The Q4 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts, released earlier this month, showed that the economy edged out of per capita recession after recording 0.1% growth over the quarter.

I hope the fake left still loves its ABC because it sure doesn’t love them.

Good news was bad news for risk markets on Friday night as the April 2 deadline looms with Trump’s call with PM Carney presenting no change in the deadlock as the Canadians announce retaliatory tariffs.

CoreLogic’s daily dwellings value index shows that Australian home values across the five major capital cities rose for a second consecutive month, increasing by 0.4% in March.

Geoff Russ from Canada’s National Post penned a cautionary tale on how out-of-control immigration has degraded Canada’s economy and living standards.

DXY is down.

The Australian housing market is losing momentum following the stimulus bounce after the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) 0.25% interest rate cut in February.

Peter Dutton’s call for East Coast Australia to start reserving gas has drawn the usual vested interest shrieking in your mainstream media.

Merchant.adventurers.of.london · DeepTandMisterG MB Radio 28 March 2025 After the announcement Australia would be going to the polls on Friday 28 March 2025, Deep T spoke about Australia’s economic structure and economic backdrop to the 2025 Federal election.

International Reading: Trump says US will ‘go as far as we have to’ to get control of Greenland – ABC It’s not just setting Teslas on fire.

Asian stock markets are having a poor finish to the trading week with most markets down amid noise around more Trump tariff nonsense, while the latest Japanese inflation figures sent local stocks sharply lower.

Wednesday’s monthly inflation gauge from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that housing inflation is falling fast, helping to lower trimmed mean inflation.

Progress towards peace in Ukraine is slow to the point of being imperceptible.

The “Stats Guy” Simon Kuestenmacher, is a renowned immigration lobbyist.