Global Macro / Markets:
- Federal Reserve Said to Probe Banks Over Forex Fixing – Bloomberg
- Basel Regulators Ease Leverage-Ratio Rule for Banks – Bloomberg
- Is Gold About To Move Higher? – jerrykhachoyan.com
North America:
- Banks Seek to Limit Volcker With Challenge to Meaning of ‘Own’ – Bloomberg
- Yield-hungry investors snap up US homeless bond – Financial Times
- Businesses have new reasons to accelerate spending this year – Wall Street Journal
- The behavioral economics behind Americans’ paltry nest eggs – Quartz
- Weak US jobs data challenge the Fed – Financial Times
Europe:
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- Euro-Zone Tensions Flare at U.S. Economics Gathering – Wall Street Journal
- Investors are turning back to euro-zone bonds, leading countries’ borrowing costs to fall – Wall Street Journal
- Treasury gives debt pledge on Scotland – Financial Times
- IMF adds four European countries to financial risk list – The AFR
Asia:
- Rising rates will help cure China’s credit addiction – Financial Times
- What’s behind China’s debt spiral – Business Spectator
Local:
- Labor hits “business” Budget – The AFR
- Tony Shepherd urged to reveal interests – The Age
- Christmas can’t break Coalition out of poll mire – The AFR
- Policy plans must come from reality, not projection – The AFR
- First home buyers shoved aside – The Australian
- Act now on Holden or risk recession – The Australian
- Give Qantas a chance – The Australian
- A lesson for Australia’s economy – The Age
- Minimum wage fear and loathing not based on evidence – The Guardian
- The housing boom is on borrowed time – Business Spectator
Other:
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- The Anti-Scientific Revolution in Macroeconomics – New York Times
- Wait, What If We Try Giving People Home Loans They Can’t Actually Afford To Pay Off? – The Onion
- Legal Weed’s Strange Economics in Colorado – Bloomberg
- What the Heroes of Blogging Have Accomplished – Bloomberg
