👤 Stephen Bartholomeusz

2026-11-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

We’ve seen peak Trump, but the next two years will be a rocky ride

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2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

The Putin ‘solution’: Donald Trump’s strange deal is destined to fail

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2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Trump’s bluff is too late to save him

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2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

Wall Street on edge after $1.4 trillion wipeout

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2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

‘Politics played no role’: Fed hits pause button ahead of midterms

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2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

The damage Trump has inflicted on America is spreading

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2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 While Warsh might add growth and AI investment to the influences on US inflation, that begs the question of why other developed economies with less growth and less AI investment – from Australia and Japan to the European Union – are also wrestling with persistently high inflation and their central banks are also raising their policy rates. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 That something would have dire consequences for much of the world, including the US - and Australia, the world’s biggest per-capita user of the fuel. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Last week, Berkshire Hathaway announced that Warren Buffett’s son, Howard, would replace him as chairman of the sprawling conglomerate. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The sudden spike in US bond yields over the past week to near 20-year highs raises a multi-trillion dollar question: Will those higher debt returns crash the sharemarket, and in the process derail the boom in artificial intelligence-related investment? assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 With the US flirting with stagflation last year – low growth but relatively high levels of inflation – and unsettling discussions about how the Trump administration might respond to public finances that are spiralling out of control, gold’s “safe haven” status was another factor in the price surge. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 While the leading frontier AI lab says it will have its second successive quarter of profitability, at an operating level, in the September quarter, last year it lost more than $US8 billion at an operating level – up from $US2.98 billion in 2024 – while reporting a net loss of $US42 billion. mixed

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The “forced labour” tariffs are a transparent attempt to recreate the global tariff regime that the Court of International Trade ruled illegal last May; a judgment that the US Supreme Court confirmed in February. mixed

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Will his gambit work? assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Inflation rates are too high, growth rates are weak and there’s not the political will or ability to address the threat of a self-fuelling cycle of escalating debts and interest costs. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The equal weight index has risen 10.8 per cent this year and has actually fallen almost 3 per cent in the past month – the market might be at record levels, but its performance is very narrowly based. Indeed, only four stocks – Nvidia, Apple, Micron and AMD – account for roughly half the S&P 500’s rise this year. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A delegation of European Union trade negotiators is in Beijing, hoping to avert what could be a full-scale trade confrontation with China. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Donald Trump announced a deal last Friday under which Russia will supply the US and the global market with diesel that Russia may not have and America doesn’t need. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When the latest inflation data is released on Wednesday morning in the US, it is expected to show that the inflation rate in the world’s largest economy rose again in September, adding to the cost-of-living pressures that are the key issue in the midterms. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 What would it look like if demand for government and corporate debt rose rapidly even as its cost surged? assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Given that the core issue in the election is affordability, the headline rise in the rate in September of 0.6 per cent – a material increase on the 0.4 per cent rise in August – and the year-on-year increase in prices of 3.7 per cent (3.4 per cent previously) couldn’t have come at a worse time for Donald Trump and the Republicans. mixed

2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Earlier this month, Firmus, a data centre operator, yanked what would have been Australia’s second-largest initial public offering – after investors balked at the $44 billion valuation and the very pricey capitalisation of revenues and earnings from projects that are still on drawing boards. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Next week the lower house of the Swiss parliament will debate a proposal from their colleagues in the upper house that would force the bank to capitalise its offshore subsidiaries almost entirely with equity. assertive

2026-10-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Anthropic has launched the prospectus for what may be the biggest-ever initial public offering – and the fate of the entire US artificial intelligence complex may rest on it. assertive

2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 If the US Federal Reserve Board had met a day or two later, would it have left interest rates on hold? assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Alphabet and Meta have, between them, raised almost $US90 billion of new equity since June and have programs that could raise a further $US100 billion. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Those “concepts” could produce even more trade friction. assertive

2026-11-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The midterm elections could knock out one, if not two, of the pillars supporting that dominance. assertive