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Another night of deep red on Wall Street last night and another night of gold and silver price strength in the face of it.  As the same signals seen in the 70’s and the 00’s is Gold set to soar?

The results are in: How five types of diversity performed in Australia’s top 300 boardrooms.

The findings of the latest Board Diversity Index are in, providing a snapshot of Australia’s top 300 boardrooms in 2022.

The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favour).

In a goal to make solar the largest electricity source in the EU, the Commission is proposing plans for mandatory solar panels on all new buildings by 2029. 

Solar panels could soon be mandatory on all new buildings in the European Union under a new proposal aimed at rapidly replacing its reliance on Russian oil and gas supplies with renewable energy. 

The falls in the share market this year – the bad news and the good.

Share markets Worldwide remain under pressure from high inflation, rising interest rates and bond yields, the war in Ukraine and Chinese Covid lockdowns.

It’s still too early to say markets have bottomed. However, it’s not all negative: we may have seen peak inflation in the US, share market earnings are still rising, Covid cases in China appear to be slowing and yield curves are still not pointing to a recession.

5 Signs the Green Hydrogen Economy is Just Getting Started.

The dream of a global hydrogen economy has tantalized policymakers ever since the 1970s when researchers began to discuss how the ubiquitous, clean-burning fuel could replace coal, oil and natural gas. Skeptics have had 50 years to scoff at the notion, but it looks like hydrogen fans are getting the last laugh — and that could open up new pathways for scaling up green hydrogen and, in the bigger picture, decarbonization across multiple commercial sectors.

Mining Impacts Across the Ok Tedi & Fly River Floodplains.

The flood plains of the Ok Tedi and Fly River extend over approximately 3,500 km2 and from the air appear to be an uninhabited wilderness of intact forests, woodlands and swamps. However, natural resources of the riverine landscape support several small, but remote, subsistence communities that are dependent upon the landscape for their livelihoods and wellbeing.

We are currently experiencing profound changes in the global economy that are likely to unleash a plethora of early-stage secular trends in a new inflationary regime.

These are long-overdue structural shifts powered by decades of easy money policies and record levels of debt-to-GDP among developed economies.