Carte-Blanche

24/07/2026

Rent vs Buy the age old debate - what are the pros and cons ?

See how rent compares to mortgage repayments in cities across Australia and countries around the world, uncovering the true cost of home ownership.

20/06/2026

With gold crypto fluctuations will diamonds ever be a macro asset class ?

Geoscience Australia

10/06/2026

This is all the things Australia is doing wrong “Australia is generally an expensive market, and itself it is facing growing policy and cost challenges, including permitting uncertainty, high labour and energy costs, and continued concerning government actions detering private capital” and then Imagine a future of research where small and mid cap companies can be heavily researched due to advances in tech supported by AI

In an era of elevated sovereign debt, persistent geopolitical tensions, and volatile financial markets, GERAF was established to deliver investors concentrated exposure to high-quality real assets across Precious Metals, Energy, and Industrial Metals. By focusing on listed companies with global oper...

02/06/2026

And we think we know what is going on in this world. Well if the leader of the western world has no idea - good luck…

“And here's what the president told me earlier today in a phone call. He said, I don't care if they're over, honestly.
I really don't care. I couldn't care less. If they're over, they're over.
Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring. They were giving us what we needed.
But I think, I think they handled the negotiations poorly. It took too long. I thought they were tapping us along.
That's all. So the president, this was about 12, 15 this afternoon, Mike, the president suggesting that it didn't matter to him whether negotiations were on or off. Then something happened after I hung up the phone with the president because we saw this post on social media a short time later.
And the president said this, talks are continuing at a rapid pace with the Islamic Republic of Iran. So at some point between my phone call with the president and his posting of that, he must have gotten some additional information that changed his view on whether or not these negotiations were happening or not. We still haven't heard from the Iranians and that[…]”

From Closing Bell: Closing Bell Overtime: AI, Markets and the Next Big Winners 6/1/26, 2 Jun 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/closing-bell/id1612281974?l=en-GB&i=1000770647731&r=235
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Podcast Episode · Closing Bell · 1 June · 44min

29/04/2026

Title says it all 95% of manufactured goods need oil or gas - how long can the worlds just-in-time supply chain survive with 20% less capacity ? It’s not just impacting gas pump prices for drivers….