Sam 🇦🇺🇺🇦
@samstrades
Full time investor, data junkie. Worked in civil/criminal law for 12 years (Clayton Utz, NSW DCJ and ODPP) #AustraliaFirst
This will be a thread of charts, tables; I don't save charts & end up looking for them which wastes time, so all charts/similar will end up here, starting with this one 'Investors as a proportion of new listings (%) vs 5 year average' 1/x #ausbiz #charts #economy #Australia

haha, what a scumbag engaging in false dichotomy to silence something you don't like, spoken like a true weakling and a scumbag
anonymity or not, it's irrelevant when it comes presenting facts and the truth, these filth want to silence everyone else, be able to track everybody, harass everyone by forcing ppl to lose their anonymity, Soviet Union 2.0, follow the establishment narratives or else
'Viva Energy, the company behind Shell and Liberty service stations, says cigarette sales have slumped by more than a quarter over the past six months as smokers turn to black market tobacco in bigger numbers' #ausbiz afr.com/companies/reta…
'Teen charged with manslaughter over Edgewater electric motorbike death remanded in custody' #crime abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…
'Commonwealth Bank replaces dozens of call centre jobs with AI chatbot' #ausbiz abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…
'Macquarie Group-backed ATM provider begins removing machines from suspected illegal tobacco stores' 'ABC investigation found ATM companies were cutting deals with tobacco criminals & installing their machines in illegal cigarette shops' #ausbiz #crime abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…
In 1985, property investors represented an average of 8.2% of new mortgages being written for existing homes by value. In April 2017, the investor share had risen to 51.7%. As of the last comparable data in 2018, it was 45.8%.
$NVDA hits a new all-time high 🚨 Nvidia is now valued at $4.3 Trillion 🥳🤑🫂
“The most recent data from the Treasury Department shows that foreigners plowed a net $311.1 billion into U.S. securities in May, a record high, after pulling out $14.2 billion in April.” “‘All this is notable because so many commentators prophesied the end of US…
“Immigration lawyer Joseph Italiano, who was not involved in the case, said this type of abuse was "endemic" and only the "tip of the iceberg". dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
1/5 This very good FT article on China's inability stop expanding its already-excess reliance on manufacturing makes what I think are two especially important points. ft.com/content/f7979a… via @ft
The Dollar is seeing a big rise. Several drivers: (i) EU - US trade deal is reminder that - having dropped the ball on Ukraine - EU is supplicant, not master; (ii) tariffs are Dollar-positive, the fact that they drove the Dollar down was always an anomaly. The Dollar has based...
Margin investing is skyrocketing: Margin debt jumped +9.4% in June to a record $1.01 trillion. This also marks the largest monthly increase in history, at +$87 billion. Over the last 2 years, margin debt has surged by ~$400 billion. To put this into perspective, total margin…
🚨NEW: Bill Maher *GOES OFF* on "the left" over its most idiotic mistake🚨 "The stupidest thing the left does — and this dinner is a perfect example of it — is having this attitude toward the right that: 'We won't even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won't…
Daily reminder that mass deportations are the moderate solution
Wisconsin teens would ‘still be alive’ if not for sanctuary policies protecting alleged drunk-driving illegal immigrant trib.al/EZMoX36
Russia: Cyber attack destroyed 7,000 servers at Kremlin-owned airline Aeroflot. All operations have come to a standstill. 12TB of databases, 8TB of Windows Share files, and 2TB of corporate mail taken. Up to 200,000 passengers flew daily on Aeroflot during the summer.
“Trump has now effectively frozen US export controls and given away the H20 semiconductor for nothing, undermining one of our most critical national security tools,” said one former official. Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist in the first Trump administration, said…
🚨NEW: Bill Maher ADMITS he was *WRONG* about Trump's tariffs🚨 "The stock market is at record highs." "I don't see a country in a depression at all. I see people out there just living their lives." "And I would have thought — and I gotta own it — that these tariffs were going…