Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bond investors really are up against it in a search for yield – Business Insider
- Why calculating discount rates is so fraught with error – Morningstar
- Making your own luck in the generational roll of the financial dice – Abnormal Returns
North America:
- The great risk to profit margins: labor costs – AllianceBernstein
- Jobs are increasingly going unfilled – Bespoke
- Small business optimism is trending higher – Calculated Risk
- California’s Brown Reaches $7.2 Billion Drought Bond Deal – Bloomberg
- Record income gap fuels US housing weakness – Financial Times
- First-Time Buyers Shut Out of Expanding U.S. Home Supply – Bloomberg
- War-weary America has to show its steel in Iraq – Financial Times
- What Would Happen If Someone Got Ebola in America? – The Atlantic
- Yes, immigration does help domestic workers – CBS News
Europe:
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- Europe’s lone bright spot, Germany, is weakening – Business Insider
- Kiev vows to halt Russian aid convoy – Financial Times
- Russian Intervention in Ukraine Is Likely, NATO Says – New York Times
Asia:
- China Trust Asset Growth Slows in Shadow Banking Campaign – Bloomberg
- Property Pile-Up: Which Chinese Provinces Rely Most Heavily on Real Estate? – Wall Street Journal
- Bankers Pack Pistols Chasing $21 Billion of India Clients – Bloomberg
- As China flexes maritime muscle, SE Asia builds home-grown defence industry – Reuters
- What to Make of Xi Jinping’s Vision for Asian Security? – The Asian Forum
- Beijing cuts coal use by 7 pct in H1 in anti-smog push – Reuters
Local:
- The Reserve Bank of Blackjack IZNOP – Australia: Boom to Bust Blog
- Is the Australian economic miracle in trouble? – FT Alphaville
- Coalition considers PPL changes – The Australian
- Senate may kill carbon market – The Australian
- Senators may defy Abbott on hate laws – Canberra Times
- Borrowers grab record low fixed rates – Canberra Times
- Liberals vote against ACT Light Rail spending – Canberra Times
- RBA is perilously close to making a mistake – The Age
- Abbott won’t rule-out military action in Iraq – The Guardian
- Liberal call for metadata warrant – The Guardian
- China’s richest man commits $1.7 billion to Aussie real estate – The AFR
- What Joe Hockey really needs – The AFR
- Wealthy visas attracy $4.7 billion – The AFR
- Foreign students put in “too hard” basket – The AFR
- Infrastructure blow-outs hit $4 billion – The AFR
- Here’s why softer property prices are on the horizon – Business Spectator
- Barnaby’s boom needs Chinese wisdom – Business Spectator
Other:
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- Inequality Is Falling On Planet Earth – NPR
- Why the Funniest People Are Sometimes the Saddest – Time
- Is Sunscreen A Lifesaver Or A Poison? – fivethirtyeight.com