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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 18:14

STARS of Coffs Coast participant Melissa Rullis-Duncan from Lavender Rose Funerals has teamed up with Zoe from Dusty Road Blooms to host two fundraisers for Cancer Council on Saturday 18 March at the Terrace Bar, Pier Hotel in Coffs Harbour. Close to her heart, Mel has organised flower crown making workshops with a morning session...

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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 18:09

THREE years after floods first forced the closure of a section of Keevers Drive linking Repton and Raleigh, the barricades are gone, traffic is moving freely in both directions, and local motorists couldn’t be happier. “The reopening of the second lane on Keevers Drive will come as welcome news to locals and visitors to Raleigh,...

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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 18:07

IT IS not the news that Bellingen Shire Council wanted to deliver, but the planned celebrations around the town’s Memorial Hall Grand Opening have been pushed back to May to allow for the finishing touches to be completed. Committed to delivering a great experience for everyone, the Council has announced the new dates as May...

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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 17:48

THE debut Coffs Harbour Australian Decorative Fine Arts Society (ADFAS) event, a talk on Khayamiya: the History of Egyptian Tent Making, was a “howling success”. “There was a great turnout of 140 people to the first talk on Monday 6 February at the National Cartoon Gallery,” Cath Fogarty, on behalf of ADFAS Coffs Coast, told...

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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 17:45

THE ARTISTS in the Garden (AITG) group has announced a stimulating line-up of activities for its meeting on Sunday 5 March at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour. “The mostly local performing artists booked in for next Sunday are an eclectic mix,” Tamy Mills-Thom, Artists in the Garden Director told News Of...

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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 14:26
Given yesterday’s extensive National Accounts analysis replaced my usual Wednesday blog post, I am using today to discuss a range of issues and provide a musical interlude into your lives for peace. Yesterday’s bad National Accounts data release took the headlines away from another data release from the ABS yesterday – the monthly CPI data results. Inflation is falling in Australia and has probably peaked. The RBA still thinks it is going to hike rates a few more times. As more data comes out, their cover (justifications) are evaporating by the day and it is becoming obvious that they are pushing rates up because they want to reclaim the territory as the ‘boss’ of macroeconomic policy irrespective of the costs and hardships they impose on lower-income Australian families. Shocking really. I also look at the new RadioMMT show which launched last week. And the debate about Covid continues but the evidence is being distorted badly by those who continue to claim it was all a conspiracy to bring us to heel. And then some music.
William Mitchell — Modern Monetary Theory
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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 14:03

 

This will eventually happen but that’s not the point… here’s the thing:  the whole USD system will go CBDC…. The WHOLE THING….  and then… these Art degree monetarist morons will STILL insist the abstractions are REAL! …. They will!  …. Lock it…





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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 13:48
Given yesterday’s extensive National Accounts analysis replaced my usual Wednesday blog post, I am using today to discuss a range of issues and provide a musical interlude into your lives for peace. Yesterday’s bad National Accounts data release took the headlines away from another data release from the ABS yesterday – the monthly CPI data…
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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 12:00
Here’s an interesting new wrinkle in the American First populism of the Republican Party. Some MAGA oxes are potentially being gored and they don’t like it: Donald Trump’s latest salvo in his trade war with China is raising hackles among fellow Republicans from farm states, a crucial voting bloc in the 2024 GOP primary. The former and would-be future president pitched a new proposal Monday to overhaul the U.S. trading relationship with Beijing, part of a wave of anti-China rhetoric surging through Washington in the wake of the Chinese spy balloon flap earlier this month. But while there is consensus within the GOP on taking a tough line, many rural Republicans were quick to reject Trump’s calls to slap new tariffs on Chinese goods — since Beijing targeted the U.S. farm economy during the former president’s last trade war with China. The rare pushback, in public and private, presents an early break with some representatives for one of his key constituencies: rural Americans.
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Thu, 02/03/2023 - 10:48
Former parliamentary staffer says NEC panel told her she couldn’t stand for selection as W Mids mayoral candidate because whistleblowing would ‘bring Labour into disrepute’ On Tuesday, Keir Starmer exploited an appearance with former Spice Girl Mel Brown to – again – trumpet his supposed commitment to tackle violence against women and girls. But just […]