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Globally producer price indexes have turned down quite decisively. China is trying to deal with deflation. There are two main explanations, with diametrically diverging investment outcomes. Under the first scenario, producer price inflation is a leading indicator for consumer price inflation. Falls ...

In this episode, we confront the prevailing fixation on GDP as a sole indicator of prosperity. The recent government announcement of a supplementary statistic to incorporate additional measurements of wellbeing gave hope for a more comprehensive approach, but upon closer examination, it falls short ...

Over the past few months the market has had a bifurcated view. Q2 earnings are expected to be bad, down almost 10%. But, by Q4, analysts have almost 10% earnings growth factored in. So, we are approaching a critical juncture. Q4 starts in a little over 2 months time. If those forecasts are as ...

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Steve Keen made a name for himself challenging conventional economic wisdom. In particular, Steve has a focus on how money creation works in the real world, which is very different from how it works in conventional economic models. For this reason, given the recent banking issues in the US and the ...

Happy New financial year!

The Australian investment landscape is dominated by oligopolies. Many of these oligopolies are large donors to both sides of politics and seem to get an easy run when it comes to tax and regulation. Michael West runs a website that focuses on independent journalism. Part of what he does is hold ...

How big can artificial intelligence be in the long term? In the longer term, the sky is the limit. The best analogy is likely the introduction of the internet or the personal computer into workplaces. Artificial intelligence will allow more to be done with fewer workers in a vast array of ...

During the year to June, our Core Australian equity portfolio significantly outperformed the benchmark, ranking in the top 5 large-cap Australian funds, bolstered again by our defensive and underweight resources and bank stock exposures. In the most recent month, these weights led to slight ...

In his book, The Ulysses Contract, Michael Kemp explores some of the innate behaviors, biases and challenges humans face as investors. And what you can do about them. He sits down to explore these and other things with Nucleus Wealth Chief Operating Officer, Shelley George, in this episode of ...

It has been a volatile 6 months in macroeconomic outlooks. A year ago, it looked as if Australia was lagging behind the US economically; a few months ago that narrative reversed. And then it flip-flopped several more times. In this week's podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer Damien ...

Extraordinary scenes in Russia this week as a coup put a significant dent into Putin's aura of political invincibility. We examine the aftershocks for macroeconomics, political stability and investments. In particular, we look at the investment landscape for defense contractors, which ones benefit, ...

For the last few months we have been talking about how the soft data (i.e. surveys and forward looking) has been looking recessionary but the hard data has been surprisingly firm. That has started to change, and in the hard data we are seeing sweeping signs of a slowdown. In this week's podcast ...