Last month, the United States House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s absurdly named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a 1,038-page legislative juggernaut championed to deliver on campaign promises including “a hodgepodge of controversial tax breaks for the wealthy, spending reductions and increased work requirements for food aid and Medicaid programs and huge funding increases for President Trump’s mass migrant removal program…”, according to The Hill News. Continue…

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Most of the time, you can ignore monthly economic data – it rarely, if ever, changes trends in markets. But with Trump fiscal profligate ways, a huge global debt refinancing event coming in 2026/27 and threats to democracy itself, it probably now pays to keep a closer eye on how the U.S. economy is faring. Continue…

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In this episode of Over the Money Fence, we dive into the realities facing the Sandwich Generation – women in their 50s and 60s who find themselves caring for elderly parents while also supporting adult children. Continue…

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Markets cycle back and forth between periods of calm when investors are at ease and periods of heightened volatility, usually when investors have taken by surprise. These surprises tend to fall into two categories, and it’s important to be able to distinguish between them.

This article was first published in The Australian on 29 May 2025. Continue…

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With Donald Trump deliberately flooding the media with daily, if not hourly, meme-worthy pronouncements, investors are understandably bereft of an opportunity to sit back and take stock of what’s been happening in markets so far. This is that opportunity. Continue…

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In this week’s video insight I discuss why the bond market is setting off warning signs for investors, policy makers and the economy. Continue…

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Last week, I joined Juliette Saly on Ausbiz to discuss the bond markets growing instability amid surging global debt. Continue…

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Australia’s housing crisis is deepening, with median Sydney house prices reaching 13.8 times the median household income, placing it among the least affordable cities globally. Continue…

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