Australians strongly disagree with key policies of US President Donald Trump, and have overwhelmingly lost trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll. Despite this, 80% of people say the alliance is “very” or “fairly” important for Australia’s security, only fractionally down on last year’s […]
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Trump’s in-the-know plan to demolish the US economy
The press daily reports ever louder shrieks of concern that Trump’s actions – tariffs, deportations, chainsaw destruction of federal agencies by people barely out of their teens – risk causing a worldwide economic crash. The naïve shriekers Bill Ackman, Larry Fink, Larry Summers and countless others don’t yet realize that there’s no risk: it’s the […]
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Musk’s way of streamlining tech startups is wrong for government
Elon Musk has been steadily expanding his political influence since being designated a “special government employee” by United States President Donald Trump in January. Appointed to lead the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk has moved to transform government operations by pushing for mass layoffs of government employees and attempting to shut down […]
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Trump ideology looking a lot like 1960s China
Despite steady GDP growth, low inflation, low unemployment, and record high stock prices, Americans told pollsters in 2024 that they were deeply unhappy with how Joe Biden had handled the US economy. So they elected Donald Trump, who promised to lower costs for average Americans, create a new era of US manufacturing and domestic investment, and […]
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This is about the US national debt but please read it anyway
The national debt is one of those subjects Wall Street Journal reporters in my day called DBIs – dull but important. We did headstands trying to make these dense, abstract topics readable. One Journal piece began: “This is the story of the western world’s 27th largest steel producer. Oh, read it anyway.” I’ve never shied […]
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US government agencies gaslight world with massive media subsidies
How much of USAID’s US$40 billion annual spending and the budgets of the National Endowment for Democracy and other government agencies bought the cooperation of journalists worldwide? The nearly $270 million in payoffs to “independent media” in the 2025 federal budget – a staggering sum compared to the editorial budgets of the world’s news organizations […]