Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- In Wake of Financial Crisis, Goldman Goes It Alone – Wall Street Journal
- Metals exec: 25% of physical gold buyers are crazy – CNN Money
- Global gold demand hits four-year low – Financial Times
- Global Oil Layoffs Exceed 100,000 – Bloomberg
- Warning—Falling (U.S. Treasury) Objects – IMF
- Hedge Funds Focused on Currencies Get Big Payoff – Wall Street Journal
- Bond Traders Vanishing as Liquidity Evaporates – Bloomberg
- The Most Fascinating Investing Paradox – Bloomberg View
- What We Know About Recessions Might Be Wrong – Bloomberg View
- Central Banks and the Bottom Line – Project Syndicate
North America:
- Five Facts About Housing That Will Make People In New York City and San Francisco Depressed – Bloomberg
- Greece and Germany are Working Towards a Compromise – Bloomberg
- How Mortgage Fraud Made the Financial Crisis Worse – New York Times
Europe:
- Benefit of ECB’s Bond Buying: Fiscal Breathing Room – Wall Street Journal
- The (almost) agreed eurogroup statement on Greece – Financial Times
- Sweden Cuts Rate, Announces Bond-Buying Program – Wall Street Journal
- How a German veto scuppered EU-Greece deal – Channel 4
- ’Glimmer of hope’ for Ukraine after deal at Minsk peace summit – Reuters
- Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- China’s Internet Censors Now Have Their Own Theme Song, And It Is Glorious – Wall Street Journal
- Chinese Authorities Snuff out Last Online Remnants of the New York Times – The Diplomat
- Without corruption, some ask, can the Chinese Communist Party function? – The Washington Post
- Beijing Directive Cuts Into Debt Issuance – Wall Street Journal
Local:
- Pensions are for the poor alone – The AFR
- Jobless rate points to another rate cut – The AFR
- How Tony Abbott came within 11 votes of oblivion – The AFR
- Big banks lose crucial funding source – The AFR
- Hockey delays white paper until inter-generational report – The AFR
- Mining slowdown boosts traffic as mining workers return to cities – The AFR
- Wrong turn on Budget repair – The Australian
- Industry ‘spooked’ by row over East West – The Australian
- Another harebrained tax proposal – The Australian
- Dads’ army plugs gap as BOM has funds cut – Canberra Times
- Will Joe Hockey do a Wayne Swan? – Canberra Times
- Jobs data not gospel, says ABS boss – Canberra Times
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