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Two weeks ago week, we did an episode on mining’s giant decarbonisation opportunity. And it got a lot of interest, in particular, in Indonesia’s opportunity.  Here in Australia, Indonesia is our largest neighbour. It is 270 million people directly to our north. It is the 4th largest country in the world by population after India, China and the United States. And it is the world’s largest supp...

It feels like cigarettes were replaced seemingly overnight by a new and different way to get your nicotine high, and what started as potential bridge to quit smoking has given rise to entirely new industry - Vaping. Big Tobacco companies are getting involved in a BIG way, but governments are already trying to crack down on this 'modern' tobacco industry. Today Simon and Sascha talk about the busin...

Professional cricket has come to America. The first season took place over three weeks, finishing up on the 30 July.  This has been a dream for cricket lovers in America. There was the Pro Cricket league that played one season in 2004. And the American Premier League was a proposed partnership between USA and NZ cricket that never got off the ground.  But this tournament has come about a...

It's a returning favourite! It’s earnings season. When all the companies gather their shareholders and tell them what they did for the last three months, what went well, what didn’t go so well, and what’s coming up.  You’ve told us how much you love this format before, so Sascha and Alec are back - this time with 3 themes to explore.   Want more Equity Mates? Click here .  In t...

Tiktok - the addictive, video-hosting giant has launched a closed beta for its subscription-only music streaming service to Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia and Brazil. But music is an expensive playground to join, and when so many of the incumbents - Spotify, Amazon, Apple -  are already losing money - why is TikTok pursuing this line of thinking? Today Sascha is joined by Jessica Wea...

Yesterday, Core Logic released their monthly Home Value Index report - and it showed that property prices are still on the rise. Despite interest rates being their highest since 2012 - this is the 5th consecutive month we’ve seen an increase in national figures.  However, it was a smaller climb in comparison to previous months, and then the RBA decided to keep the cash rate the same. Today, S...

How exciting - the latest figures report that quarterly inflation is lower than expected!  Inflation numbers on the decline is great - that’s more money in the bank accounts. After a steep incline in the cost of items globally, I think we all are breathing a sigh of relief. Mostly though, we pay attention to inflation because of its effect on mortgages. Today Alec and Sascha ask: does deflati...

Here’s something that was pitched in our weekly meeting that immediately hooked us: Scientists in Japan are regrowing teeth. It raises more questions than it answers, doesn’t it? In digging a little deeper to this story, we found it’s all about research that will define the next generation of healthcare. This is a story about gene therapies.  Today Alec and Sascha ask - what’s the story behin...

Does your instagram feed look like everyone you know is in Europe? Friends, family, enemies, exes, those podcasters you follow on social media… Everyone is gallivanting around the south of France, or posing like Russell Crowe in the Colosseum, or sinking a stein in Germany. Well.. it feels that way.  If you’re one of those lucky Australians escaping the cold winter months and enjoying Europe,...

Here’s a big number for you - $15 to 20 trillion dollars. That is the amount of money Ken Hoffman, the head of the battery minerals team at McKinsey, estimates that decarbonising the modern world will make the mining industry. If we play a bit of word association - when I say mining, many of us think dirty, pollution or unsustainable.  But that’s going to change. Put simply, the mining i...

You can’t have missed it - the Women's World Cup has come to town! And the big conversation in the lead up to this world cup has been around prize money... cause FIFA offers women one-quarter as much money as the men.  The 2023 World Cup has a total prize pool of $110m, compared to $440m for the men’s World Cup last year. We’re not here to make a case either way. Instead, we thought we could...

Bad news everyone - we might need to go outside! In a world where most of us are spending some part of our day glued to a screen… our constant stream of content might be slowing down.  For the last few months, Hollywood writers have walked off the job. And just last week, actors have also ‘downed tools’ for lack of a better word.  It's not like there's not work to be done - Sascha h...

We look forward to a password-less future.” Those were the world’s of Apple’s VP of Internet Technologies, Darin Adler, at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June.  Apple isn’t the only company planning for a password-less future. In fact, as far back as 2004, Bill Gates envisioned the death of the password. Yet, almost 20 years later, the password remains undefeated in inter...

In the future, obesity may be a choice.  That is the bold claim being made by the pharmaceutical companies behind a generation of new weight loss drugs.  If you’re a follower of Hollywood, you may have heard of the big one - Ozempic - but it is just the tip of the iceberg. Because recent trials of new drugs have yielded even better results than Ozempic. What was just last year a mir...

Did you grow up hearing stories about the space race between the USA and USSR? Laika the space dog, Neil Armstrong, the Apollo missions... these moments and stories have quickly become modern legends.   But all those decades ago... That was a space race was between two governments. Today, we’re in the midst of a new space race. Just this time it isn’t governments building the rocket...

In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg said it Twitter, “[It] is such a mess - it's as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.” But hang on, ten years later, he’s mining for that gold.  Mark Zuckerberg the billionaire founder of Facebook is no doubt an incredible entrepreneur. But his critics are fixated on one thing - he has a habit of copying his social media competitors. Threads is...

We know Sascha is a sucker for pop-culture news, and isn't too ashamed to admit that she clicked on all the headlines announcing the end of Spotify’s deal with a certain royal couple. But this snarky celebrity headline is part of a much much larger pivot. We’ve seen an end to similar personality-led podcast deals - last year, the Obama’s quietly stepped away from renewing their agreement, and inst...

It’s one of our favourite episode styles today - unpacking three short, sharp headlines that have stopped us in our tracks this week… So, what's on the list? Shein - a fast fashion company that’s famous for its scale and speed - (it produces over 70 times the amount of styles as H&M) - has just announced an IPO. John McEnroe might be joining you in your living room for every Wimbledo...

Did you know there’s a Barbie movie coming up this summer?  If your answer is no. Well you’ve clearly not got the same social media algorithm as Sascha. That weekend is circled in her calendar.  It's been hard to avoid - the owner of Barbie - Mattel - has inked more than 100 partnerships in the lead up to the film which lands 21 July - everything and everyone from Airbnb to Target to Mic...

Do you have a little one in the house? You'll need no introduction to Bluey, the seven-year old Blue Heeler - and her family, Bingo, Bandit and Chili, premiered on ABC Kids on 1 October 2018. The Australian preschool animated television series has well and truly become a global phenomenon. It's beloved by famous faces around the work, and is now available internationally on Disney+.   Today S...

Over the weekend, The Wagner Group, led by outspoken Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged a rebellion that seized two Russian cities. But it was a blink and you miss it moment, almost over as soon as it began. Reaching a deal with the Kremlin, Prigozhin ordered his soldiers to stand down and fled to Belarus where he will retire.  The whole saga left us with a lot of questions. So today, Alec and Sa...

It was heralded as the next big global trend… but now it appears meatless meat , it turns out, seems less a world-changing innovation than another food trend whose novelty is wearing thin. Today Alec and Sascha consider - where did it all go wrong with fake meat?  Want more Equity Mates? Click here .  In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive acknowled...

We’re living in the Golden Age of television - inundated with choice. Netflix alone has 17,000 titles on offer. - and then there’s Paramount, Disney, Stan, Binge, Prime.  When we were in the states recently, I watched Jury Dury - that runaway hit that everyone’s talking about - available on Prime here - but in the states I watched it on FreeVee - Amazon’s ad supported streaming service. It’s...

Here's a headline: 4 week old AI startup raised $113 million dollars. That's the amount for a company with no revenue, and no product, they managed to convince investors to put in more than $100 million dollars. It feels like the lyrics of a Dire Straits song…  Money for nothing. Today Alec and Sascha ask if they're missing something here... or is this a sign that AI hype is reaching fev...

In a changing economic climate - amidst all of this conversation of interest rate rises, and cost of living pressures - one thing seems to always be the same - the price of property ticks ever upwards.  But why? Only a few months ago, reports had prices falling with the rising interest rates. But now, there's a lot of headlines with phrases like, ‘prices surging’ and ‘record highs’.  Tod...