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Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here , or fi...

Australians are the biggest gamblers in the world. Lots of us love a punt - whether it’s at the casino, the horse races or betting on sport. As a result, we hold the mantle for the highest per capita losses of any country. Between 2018 and 2019, Australians lost approximately $25 billion dollars on gambling.   Just over a month ago, a new betting platform called Betr entered the fra...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here , or fi...

Last week, Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart sensationally pulled her $15 million dollar sponsorship deal supporting the Australian Diamonds netball team. This eventuated after players voiced concerns about wearing a uniform that included branding from Rinehart’s company, Hancock Prospecting. Gina Rinehart is no stranger to sponsoring sports organisations, she has existing relationships wit...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here , or fi...

Today is Halloween - and this year, the National Retail Federation found that American consumers are going to break records with Halloween spending - $10.6 billion.  But as retailers get the pumpkins and costumes ready, it is clear that Halloween spending has gone global. In the UK, consumers are expected to spend £687 million. And in Australia, consumers are expected to spend $430 million.&n...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here , or fi...

From Equity Mates Media, this is The Dive. I’m your host, Sascha Kelly.  Rupert Murdoch is getting the band back together.  Nine years ago, the Australian billionaire and media executive Rupert Murdoch was forced to split his company in two. Now, almost a decade later, he is proposing joining them back together into one company.  Today Darcy and Sascha talk about why Rupert Murdoch...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here , or fi...

Build baby build. It is the cry being repeated around the world. Globally, there’s an undersupply of houses.  In America the estimated housing shortfall is 3.8 million houses.  In Britain, the government aims to build 300,000 new homes each year. In the last fiscal year, they built just two-thirds of that. In Australia, the new government has just announced plans to build 1 mil...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Last week, Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after just 45 days in office. It was the shortest tenure as Prime Minister in British history.  The United Kingdom was already staring down the barrel of a difficult Winter, but the failed leadership of Liz Truss’ has plummeted the country into further chaos. Today Darcy and Sascha ask, where did it all go wrong for Liz Tru...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

A few hours ago, Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated album - Midnights. Regardless of whether you count yourself a Swiftie - the name her fans give themselves - you can’t deny that the country turned pop singer is one of the most successful modern musical acts working today.  In her career to date, she’s sold an estimated 114 million album units.  But this album, despite being h...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

The Nobel Prize for Economics has just been awarded. The recipients are 3 American economists whose work demonstrated “why avoiding banking collapses is vital." Feels a little obvious. Even more extraordinary, this was published four decades ago. Back in the 1980s. We wanted to get a better understanding of what was happening with the Nobel Prize for Economics this year. Who won, why their wo...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

It is time to BeReal. Move over TikTok, there’s a hot new social media platform in town.  Well, it's not that new. It was released in 2020. But 2022 has been the year that the world decided to BeReal. And if the ultimate sign that you’ve made it in social media is when Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook try to copy you, well BeReal can now tick that off their list.  But with 53 million downloa...

We can expect to hear a lot about China and Xi Jinping next week. On the 16th of October, this coming Sunday as we’re recording, China’s Community Party Congress is taking place. This once-every-five-year event will be monumental because President Xi is going to attempt to do something that hasn’t been done in decades. Attempting to secure a third consecutive five-year term as leader.  I...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Last week, OPEC Plus cut global production of oil by 2 million barrels a day. Let’s unpack that. OPEC - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries - is basically a global cartel controlling oil prices. So what is OPEC Plus - the new and improved version? Also, 2 million barrels… is that a lot? Because it certainly sounds like a lot. Finally, reporting around this decision suggests that...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Higher food prices, higher petrol prices, higher energy bills. Wherever you are in the world, prices are rising. There's such a thing as 'healthy' inflation, but we've seen anything but in 2022. In Australia, inflation is at 6.8%. In the United States inflation is at 8.2%. In Britain it is 10.1%. In Turkey, it is 83%.  And in general, inflation is damaging for an economy. People can buy...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

And just like that, the Elon Musk - Twitter saga is over.  Both parties have agreed - the deal is back on. At the original price - $54.20 a share, valuing Twitter at US $44 billion dollars. Fittingly, this story ended with a tweet. @ElonMusk wrote: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app” So… what on earth is X - the everything app - that’s been a dream mo...