Brendan Keogh

These daily posts of ICE harassing American neighbourhoods are getting real depressing

What is clear is that inflation will not fall from here unless someone, anyone, foots the bill. And until someone — redundant workers, big business, the RBA or government — foots the bill, interest rates are unlikely to budge from here.

"Who should tighten their belt for the sake of the economy? Companies making a profit but just a slightly smaller profit? Or human being being thrown into poverty? A very complex problem."

Annual job growth has more than halved from January's 3 per cent annual pace, and is now below the RBA Board's December 2025 forecast of 1.6 per cent. Leading indicators of labour demand have signalled a gradual loosening of the labour market.

"Workers are so in demand that they are able to demand higher wages. Not wages that prevent companies from making a profit, just from making profits even higher than they already are. We need there to be less jobs so workers are willing to work for less."

"We expect it would take a material move higher in the unemployment rate, together with more moderate inflation prints, to bring the RBA back to the cutting table," the CBA said in a note. In 2023, not long before Michele Bullock become governor of the Reserve Bank, she made remarks to that effect. At the time the unemployment rate was sub 4 per cent, and the thinking was that the jobless rate probably needed to climb to about 4.5 per cent to ease pressure on inflation. The unemployment rate is now there, while the now RBA governor says the labour market remains "a little tight". It suggests unemployment may need to move higher from here for inflation to fall further.

"More people needing to be in poverty so that workers are willing to accept a lower quality of living and stop wanting to buy things"

Why interest rates will not fall again until someone pays the price And until someone — redundant workers, big business, the RBA or government — foots the bill, interest rates are unlikely to budge from here.

This op-ed is so interesting just for how most of it exemplifies the obfuscating and dehumanising language liberal economics uses before you get to an actual critical academic, almost as a footnote, who is like (paraphrasing) 'this is fucking insane'

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This is truly outrageous

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I also still need to play Australian game about climbing a mountain (Death Stranding 2)

Now to finish the Australian game about climbing a mountain (Mars First Logistics) or the Australian game about climbing a mountain (Silksong)

I did it. I defeated Baby Steps. What a masterpiece.

I shouldn't need a fucken Microsoft or Google app to log into a website!!!

One day something is going to make me snap, close my computer, and walk into the wilderness to be never seen again. And there's a very high chance that event will be a service forcing me to enable two-factor authentification.

Halloween spending set to hit $500m as Australians embrace spooky celebrations Australians are spending thousands of dollars to celebrate Halloween, with research showing the trend is continuing to grow nationwide.

Make it illegal imo www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Survalker

huh

Has anyone gone and done the work to trace exactly which edgelord gamergaters from 10 years ago are now working as professional posters for Homeland Security? There's gotta be a direct pipeline there of specific people, not just of ideology.

lmao, the irony

no

I'm getting a real kick out of just replying "Ah I see I made it to the Discover tab" to posts like this.

damn, not again

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.

Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

You say it like ‘Yammer’ is any more recognisable!

Yeah that!

It seems to be like a uni-wide Microsoft version of Facebook??

Good question! Like company facebook maybe?

(The real reason I put it on is because I am meant to be marking)

googling 'how do you win baseball'

I've put the baseball on just because it's nice seeing all the americans posting about something that isn't fascism

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