by leon | Aug 28, 2016 | Blogs
During the week, we had the Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison trash talking the Australian economy, warning that Australia risked falling into a recession. It’s not a good look. He also talked about “the taxed and the taxed-nots”. Not exactly an original phrase. He...
by leon | Aug 18, 2016 | Blogs
Australia has a deep tradition of racism towards its First People and the Turnbull government’s calling of the Royal Commission into the abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system following explosive revelations aired on the ABC’s Four Corners...
by leon | Aug 13, 2016 | Blogs
Donald Trump’s candidacy for President of the United States has been an example of kamikaze politics. Who in their right mind would run for President of the United States and alienate the Hispanics, the one group the Republicans need to get on board in order to win?...
by leon | Aug 7, 2016 | Blogs
The populist anger expressed in the Brexit vote and the underlying support in the US for the dark vision of Donald Trump can be sheeted home to the central banks around the world. Following the global financial crisis in 2008, central banks in the US, Europe and Japan...
by leon | Jul 23, 2016 | Blogs
Politico reports that Nielsen ratings data shows that an extraordinary 32.2 million people watched Donald Trump accept the Republican nomination on Thursday night across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Univision, Fox Business Network, CNBC and NBC Universo. In...
by leon | Jul 17, 2016 | Blogs
There are historical parallels with China saying it will declare an air zone over the South China Sea after the international tribunal in The Hague rejected China’s argument that it enjoys historic rights over most of the South China Sea and saying that China had...