That Saturday Night Thing’s regular US correspondent Richard Kazimer talks through another week in the Trump dynasty. This week, pissing everyone off at the G7, a flimsy deal with Kim Jong Un, the treatment of child refugees, a family cashing in on the President and how Trump won the 2026 World Cup bid.
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RBA ready for the bounce back, eventually
The US has come back from the long weekend with cautiousness in the air, says NABs Rodrigo Catril. The outlook is still positive, just a bit slower. The same reason the RBA started tapering, but won’t take further steps until next year.
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China’s slow rebound, Fed goes further
US equities are back on the rise as the Fed starts to buy corporate bonds. NAB’s Ray Attrill also looks at China’s activity data and tensions with Australia.
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The NBN’s missing cost-benefit analysis
Has the government failed to provide a cost-benefit analysis for the National Broadband Network because it knows that, if it did, it wouldn’t stack up?
