Live updates: RBA interest rates announcement

Live updates: RBA interest rates announcement

Join us for live coverage of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate decision and latest statement on monetary policy. Energy rebates to distort inflation 1:44pm The Labor government confirmed in last week’s federal budget that its energy rebates will be extended until the end of the year. While a further $150 in energy bill…

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Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are ‘ripping up trade’ after decades of precedent. Here’s how tariffs got so lopsided in the first place

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are ‘ripping up trade’ after decades of precedent. Here’s how tariffs got so lopsided in the first place

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he is expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America’s allies and adversaries alike. Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of…

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SEC Crypto Task Force & Other Crypto Developments | Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Crypto Task Force & Other Crypto Developments | Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

On March 21, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) held the inaugural roundtable of its Crypto Task Force to explore the legal issues involved in classifying crypto assets under the federal securities laws.  Acting SEC Chair Uyeda opened the roundtable explaining the limitations associated with applying the test developed under SEC v. W.J. Howey Co….

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Holding Office Solely To Do As The Party Dictates

Holding Office Solely To Do As The Party Dictates

Why do people run for powerful federal offices? I’m not talking about running for the local school board. Well-intentioned people run for school board for entirely logical reasons. But why do people run for the Senate or the House of Representatives? You would hope the answer is: “To do some good.” I don’t believe it anymore (if…

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Mom left kids in apartment ‘covered in feces’: Cops

Mom left kids in apartment ‘covered in feces’: Cops

Inset: Daionjanee R. Young (Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office). Background: The area around Winterhalter Street in Lake Charles, La., where Daionjanee Young lives (Google Maps). A mother in Louisiana allegedly left her children in a feces-covered apartment — with soiled diapers, a “bucket of urine” and other inhumane conditions — to fend for themselves while she went…

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