The team at MacroBusiness thanks you for your support in 2024 and wishes you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.
We will be taking a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period, with only sporadic posting, and will return on 2 January 2025.
We look forward to keeping the bastards honest in 2025.
International Reading:
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- US consumer confidence drops unexpectedly to near-recession levels ahead of Trump’s 2nd term – Business Insider
- A System Built to Eat People Never Stops Eating – Reframe
- Americans are less confident about where the US economy is headed – Yahoo
- US city offers $1,000 to pregnant women amid falling birth rates – News Week
- The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t – The Atlantic
- Walmart illegally opened delivery drivers’ deposit accounts, U.S. says – NPR
- Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity – CBS News
- House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests – CNBC
- Bankruptcies, Suicides Rise as Japanese Struggle With Mounting Debt – Yahoo
- Silicon Valley’s White House influence grows as Trump taps tech execs for key roles – CNBC
- DOE Study Finds LNG Exports Don’t Just Hurt the Climate – They Hit Americans in Their Pocketbooks – Desmog
- Trump team said to be debating ‘how much’ to invade Mexico – Independent
- Honda and Nissan plan to merge as we enter the age of electric cars – The Verge
- A million taxpayers will soon receive up to $1,400 from the IRS. Who are they and why now? – AP News
- ‘At the mercy of employers’: retail workers’ wages languish as industry profits soar – The Guardian
Local Reading:
- The Australian dollar could be heading to a 20-year low, on risks of China, Trump and slow growth – ABC
- Australian leaders acknowledge financial pressures and emergency workers in Christmas messages – The Guardian
- Imminent fire warning following Christmas, Boxing Day – New Daily
- Australia ‘much better prepared’ for tsunami threat, 20 years after Boxing Day disaster – ABC
- WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti says state is ‘envy of the nation’ with $3.1B budget surplus – ABC
- Australian pilot Daniel Duggan to be extradited to US over claims he trained Chinese pilots – ABC
- Railway union cans crippling New Year’s Eve bans – New Daily
- At last, a charter of rights for Australian airline passengers – but where’s the compensation for delays? – The Guardian
- Looking to 2025 – Interest.co.nz
- Holiday briefing: China to turn economists into propagandists – Interest.co.nz
- Superannuation – what might have been for NZ – Interest.co.nz
- Home ownership the most affordable it has been for 1st home buyers since October 2021 – Interest.co.nz
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Media Appearances:
Australian politicians sabotage our economic future
Australia’s economy is on the road to Argentina
Brace for a decade of deficits
