International Reading: Oil Prices Are So Bad That Trump Considers Lifting Sanctions on Iran – New Republic Trump drives national debt to a staggering $39 trillion nearly double first term – The Mirror $39 trillion national debt is “an embarrassing milestone,” think tank says.

In early 2024, Canada was experiencing its worst-ever rental crisis, driven by record immigration-driven population growth.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on Thursday released the biannual Financial Stability Review (FSR), which reported a sharp increase in high loan-to-value ratio (LVR) mortgage lending to first home buyers.

Charts from TME.

We received the clearest indication this week that the Victorian Labor government is cooked, with the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), which is usually in Labor’s pocket, electing to strike next week over pay.

Always fighting the last war, Albo’s cowards are talking about doing stuff in May.

This week, the Australian Treasury released monthly and quarterly data showing that net migration into Australia has rebounded and remains at historically high levels: The following chart shows that in the first 3.25 years of the Albanese government, NOM averaged a whopping 1,145.

The chart below of US manufacturing jobs may become very important.

Albo’s cowards won’t tell you the truth even with a gun to their heads.

When the Gallipoli campaign was first conceived of during the First World War by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, it was seen as a bold but viable plan to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war and allow the Entente to focus its forces more heavily on the Western Front.

The Albanese government’s fantastical target of building 1.2 million dwellings over five years is centred on delivering a boom in high-rise towers that is even bigger than the one experienced between 2015 and 2020.

Gold is printing an ominous double top and sitting on some meaty supports.

I believe that in their desperation, the American people turned to a man that they did not understand.

DXY is threatening to break out as oil passes $110.

One Nation has achieved what nobody thought was possible: the highest percentage share of primary voters in NSW from any party: This latest polling result follows late-February Roy Morgan polling, which showed that One Nation’s primary vote was 30%, ahead of Labor at 25% and the Coalition at 19%.

Literally exploded.

As we know, China has banned refined fuel shipments, restricting the world’s supply.

Author Mark Twain once famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”.

Via TME, “markets are not crashing, they’re grinding.

New Nationals leader Matt Canavan is proposing income splitting for couples with dependent children — allowing them to combine their total income and divide it evenly for tax purposes.