"Inflation (almost) öff the chart" Get out more, dude. Also, get a bit learned up on history. 20 years is not history.

US Inflation Surprises Are The Highest On Record

I just edited those numbers to include partial vaccinations when two jabs are required for "full" vaccination, or something like that. By Christmas Australia might celebrate having full vaccinations in the double percentage digits.

Covid-19: Victoria goes into lockdown as Melbourne outbreak grows

Percentage of people fully vaccinated in America - about 42%. About 87% partial. Australia - <2% full. About 15% partial.

Covid-19: Victoria goes into lockdown as Melbourne outbreak grows

Without knowing much about Nigeria, that kind of trade seems OK to me. Really. Vertical integration is not in itself economically optimal.

Nigeria Devalues Naira on Migration to Single Exchange Rate

They can't make up their collective minds. About a year ago they were selling American dollars and buying the Chinese Yuan.

China State Banks Buy US Dollars To Curb Rapid Yuan Rally - Sources

Don't they have telephones?

Moscow Is Putting Together An Agenda For A Potential, Future Putin-Biden meeting - IFX

To Keynsians central bankers, in the long run we are all dead. Yes, the grand wizard said that - meaning, the long run doesn't matter? I'll pass on commenting on anything even more ridiculous like CBs recently sweating blood about climate change.

Lagarde: It Is Too Early To Ask Medium To Long Term Questions

International trade continued and continues during the Covid pestilence. It is always good to have a stockpile of strategic things such as oil in the event of trade halting. I hadn't thought that food would ever be an issue. In any event, I think it ...

Cabinet 'united' over trade deal with Australia

What I know is this - it is not general practice to subsidise Australian farmers for anything in the ordinary course of business. Is there government policy to subsidise UK or EU farmers? edit - oops, rotherwell in post #4 answered that.

Cabinet 'united' over trade deal with Australia

The alternative is for the affected employers to do something they could have been doing all these years - offer appropriate salaries and employment conditions to Australian citizens (and for that matter, everyone who works for them). Instead gotta ...

Australia offers cash to ‘work in paradise’

Yes, profits are calculated after write offs such as depreciation on assets together with a plethora of other deductions, like, um, wages and salaries, rent etc. This is legal. If government wishes to change tax law to not enable commercial expenses ...

Corporate Taxes at 'Historic Low,' Yellen Says in Speech to U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Maybe if companies were more profitable they might be able to pay more tax. I read recently that something like 40% of the companies included in the Russell 2000 are not even making a profit. I'm no tax accountant, but I suspect that even were they ...

Corporate Taxes at 'Historic Low,' Yellen Says in Speech to U.S. Chamber of Commerce

"London is the worlds largest money-laundering hub" "London can get on with what it is good at. Money laundering is illegal in most jurisdictions, and I'd be surprised if England was an exception.. That is quite a statement you made without evidence ...

UK Treasury prepares for bonfire of EU red tape

My experience with the "new" Microsoft is that they are disposed to be rather intrusive in their want to know perhaps more than many of us who use Microsoft products feel comfortable with. In this context, I interpret the circumstances around an ...

Microsoft Board Investigated Bill Gates' 'Intimate Relationship' With Employee

While this is beyond dispute, modern monetary theory takes the rantings of an elite civil servant and turns the volume to eleven.

US Retail Sales Disappoint In April As Stimmy Surge Stalls

It depends - some, like myself, select individual currencies, rather than say the US dollar index.

US Retail Sales Disappoint In April As Stimmy Surge Stalls

Now it might have been more interesting if the US Secretary of State had mentioned to the Australian Foreign Minister that they will realistically think about this for more than a nanosecond if Australia "allows" Julian Assange to be extradited to ...

U.S. will not leave Australia alone to face China coercion -Blinken

"Inflationary ghost" must be some really technical term that only central bankers speak about. I've never heard the term. Are they appealing to the supernatural for guidance? Nothing much would surprise me with modern monetary theory - its voodoo ...

Waller: Doesn't Want To 'Move Too Fast' Chasing Inflationary Ghosts, Fed Won't Respond To...

Yeah, China CCP can get iron ore, coal, and other stuff from Africa or elsewhere if they like. Good luck with that. Australia isn't going to bend its knee. Sadly, in the meantime the Chinese people are hurting.

US Dollar Rally is Fools’ Gold and Should be Sold, Analyst Says

Which analyst are you talking about?

US Dollar Rally is Fools’ Gold and Should be Sold, Analyst Says