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Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, Fewer Australians are putting their capital into businesses, with the drop most acute among the wealthy, new data from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows. Instead, more wealth is flowing into property. A food delivery worker waits to collect an order at a shop in the Sydney CBD in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 15, 2026. George Chan/Getty Images The proportion of working-age Australians who run a business which employs people fell from 13.8...

Polymarket Seeks Approval To Bring Margin Trading To U.S. Customers Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk, Prediction market Polymarket applied for a license to offer U.S. users margin trading, enabling them to place bets with less upfront capital, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Polymarket takes another step in its return to the U.S. (Kanchanara/Unsplash) Polymarket's U.S. affiliate, Coming Home GBA LLC, filed for a futures commission merchant license with the National Futures Association, Bloomberg said, citing a company representative. Polymarket will also require authorization from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for changes to its...

How To Engineer A Food Crisis Via UNSHADOWED Substack, The UK paid farmers to stop producing, and now blames a food crisis on the weather... The UK seems to be in a world of hurt. The media has been abuzz about the need to stock canned goods due to "food shortages," blaming global warming and hostile nations: - Guardian, August 25, 2026 Remarkably, these were exactly the causes blamed in many tabletop exercises, including Food Chain Reaction Game 2015 - keynoted by none other than John Podesta - which, unsurprisingly, demanded "better global governance." But the...