Coup!

Therer is an attempted micro-coup orchestrated by the infamous Yegenny Prigozhin brewing in Russia right now. Why he is doing this is anyone’s guess, with some (such as No1) suggesting he may have been compromised by the CIA. Personally I think it’s a lot more simple than that: Prigozhin is an unhinged alcoholic ex-con megalomaniac … Read more

Budget Discussion

Is there anything interesting in this shit at all? All I saw so far was the extended range of payments to single parents (read: mothers), so the typical reward the biggest fuck ups policy yet again, in line with the increase in the Jobseeker rate to over 55s.. Other than that, there’s probably nothing in … Read more

NSW Election Open Thread

Who will win? Who will lose? I’ll put my chips in and say I think NSW Labor is going to win. It won’t be a big win but they’ll probably cinch it by a little. LNP might be able to crawl over the line but I think it’s generally the best bet at this point … Read more

And on the Pedestal These Words Appeared

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look upon my works and despair. So basically labor want to reform the entire immigration system to make it even more fast-tracked, more facilitating to migrants and even easier to rort. You won’t even need to rort it, because it’ll be so easy to migrate to Australia after … Read more

A Tribute To MikeMB

One of the most legendary commenters on MacroBusiness. We all knew this guy. We didn’t know who he was, where his numbers came from, and how much of them were embellished. He was the boiler plate man; a guy who would repeatedly post some modified/varied statistic heavy spiel in nearly every thread detailing the horror … Read more

EZFKA and the World: A year in review

It’s the end of 2022! Another year at this place. Man this year has seen a lot happen, or not happen. This thread will be a runover of every major notable thing that has occured over the last year which has gripped the interest of this blog. I’ll provide some brief commentary and perspectives on … Read more

House Price Falls are Slowing

According to the ABC anyway. You know what this means. These falls will no longer be falls in probably one year and will resume their inexorable rise shortly after. We’ve got more migrants than we’ve ever had preparing to flood into Australia on top of what looks like a petering out inflation ‘crisis’ (could MB … Read more

Putin Finally Orders Mobilisation

If anyone has been following the Ukraine war lately, they would have noticed from that Ukrainian army has recently taken back a fairly sizable chunk of territory in the direction of the city of Kharkov. Occuring earlier this month, Ukraine marched into Kharkov rather unexpectatly with a force of maybe 8000 men (some sources are … Read more