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Percy AllanFinancial Review |
The Guardian newspaper reports that history professor Allan Lichtman is known as the Nostradamus of US presidential elections since he has...
The Australian All-Ords share price index rose 0.3% last week after falling 2.9% the week before. The index had been yo-yoing sideways since it...
Callum Thomas, editor of Top-Down charts sums it up well – “Sentiment is increasingly consensus bullish. Bears have all but gone extinct. Large...
I was recently sent a complete list of China’s invasions of other countries in the last 2,245 years to demonstrated that China is historically an...
US lawmakers have introduced a bill that would bar US mutual funds from investing in indexes that track Chinese stocks (Bloomberg). According to...
The American economy is strong, Australia’s economy has slowed to a standstill, and Xi Jinping is proving to be a dry economic rationalist rather...
Last Friday the All-Ords share index finally escaped its straitjacket of see-sawing sideways within a range of roundly 6,600 to 7,900 since April...
The South China Morning Post recently published an illuminating article on China’s policy towards ethnic minorities, with a particular focus on...
My late friend and mentor Don Nicholls was one of the great public servants of NSW where he was Chief Economist and then Deputy Secretary, NSW...
The Rhodium Group, an independent research organisation with a focus on China, says the nation’s economic policymaking process has stalled with it...
The standard media news bite is that Yang Hengjun is a Chinese born Australian pro-democracy writer who was unlawfully detained and now jailed for...
Not only has the stock market shaken off its new year hangover but the All-Ords is now higher than after its Santa Rally in December 2023. Indeed, it...
In January a year ago, two-thirds of the leading economists surveyed by the World Economic Forum forecast a global recession for 2023. We didn’t get...
Last year was the most widely anticipated recession in history because tight monetary policy, slower government spending and higher oil prices...
The recent sharp falls in US, UK, European and Australian inflation rates have convinced analysts that central bank rate rises are over and the next...
In this series, I explore how US narratives on the ‘China threat’ have become entrenched in Western security communities and how a ‘China...
Why Gaza urgently needs a plan B. (A repost from December 2023). War will drag on… It’s now clear that the Gaza War is far from over. Hamas...
On the Australian economy, bulls and bears cannot both be right. 2024 will decide the fate of both economies and markets, a hard, soft or no landing. ...
Why Gaza urgently needs a plan B. War will drag on… It’s now clear that the Gaza War is far from over. Hamas refuses to surrender. Israel...
Alan Kohler has written a thought-provoking piece suggesting Japan’s embrace of modern monetary theory (MMT) since 2001 might be the model for...
If this 2022-23 opinion poll is correct then a clear majority of Palestinians want a single-Islamic state, not a shared Islamic-Jewish one let alone a...
In this series, I explore how US narratives on the ‘China threat’ have become entrenched in Western security communities and how a ‘China...
In the final of this three-part series, I explore why China’s emphasis on expanding land and naval forces suggests its focus is on defence of its...
Besides settling and securing its borders, China has no claims on other nations. Countries with grandiose territorial ambitions make no secret of...
Hatred of China is now the single issue that unites Democrats and Republicans. Having a perceived foe helps unite a deeply divided America internally,...