Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Guilty Pleas and Heavy Fines Seem to Be Cost of Business for Wall St. – New York Times
- Banks Will Keep Doing the FX Stuff That Got Them in Trouble – Bloomberg View
- OECD Sees Continued Rise in Growth-Harming Inequality – Wall Street Journal
North America:
- Kansas has found the ultimate way to punish the poor – Washington Post
- Give Silicon Valley a break – Fortune
- Special Report: The war on big food – Fortune
- Secrets, the C.I.A. and The New York Times – New York Times
- LA’s New Minimum Wage Isn’t Worth Anywhere Close To $15 – fivethirtyeight.com
Europe:
- Are The IMF and the EU at Loggerheads Over Greece? – fistfulofeuros.net
- Greek optimism about imminent deal not justified: Schaeuble – Reuters
- Portugal Sells Debt With a Negative Yield for the First Time – Bloomberg
- ECB’s Draghi says growth is too low everywhere – Reuters
- Five minutes with Barry Eichengreen: “We are a matter of weeks away from a Greek default unless a deal can be reached” – lse.ac.uk
- The Way Out for Greece – Bloomberg View
- Varoufakis fuels more controversy in interviews – ekathimerini.com
- Italy passes law to tackle rampant corruption – Reuters
Asia:
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- This Hong Kong Executive Made $22 Billion This Year, And This Week He Lost Most of It – Bloomberg
- Hanergy Shows No Goldin Moment for Hong Kong Stocks – Wall Street Journal
- This American VC Thinks He’s Getting Out of China Just in Time – Bloomberg
- Hedge funds ride Chinese stocks to best month in 14 years – CNBC
- The Threat to Press Freedom in Japan – New York Times
Local:
- Melb port sale price high enough: Andrews – The Australian
- How Aldi shoppers are different – Canberra Times
- Government walks away from iron ore inquiry – Canberra Times
- Small business tax cut ‘won’t stimulate growth’ – Canberra Times
- Retreat on higher medicine charges – Canberra Times
- Forrest slams Abbott’s inquiry fold – Canberra Times
- Warning on $53 billion congestion crunch – Canberra Times
- Public transport crush predicted to worsen – The Age
- Warships cost blows out to $9bn – The Australian
- Forrest maintains iron ore rage – The Australian
- A soft budget has left Shorten with fewer options to attack – The Australian
- Super reform too vital to avoid – The Australian
- Abbott reserves right to close super tax ‘loopholes’ – The AFR
- Our incredible expanding taxes – The AFR
- LNG players embrace new thinking in face of ‘disaster’ – The AFR
- Is Point Piper the new Chinese luxury? – The AFR
- $5b mystery fund for the land of blah – The AFR
- Higher tolls ahead as population soars – The AFR
- ‘We should be under no illusion about’ iron ore – The AFR
- Abbott and Hockey lose their way on iron ore – The AFR
- Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 – ABC News
- Solar energy batteries set to transform electricity industry – ABC News
- Could solar power be about to transform the electricity industry and drive prices down? – ABC 7.30 Report
Other:
- Your Home Doesn’t Matter for Tesla’s Dream of a Battery-Powered Planet – Bloomberg
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): This Is Not About Ricardo – The Baseline Scenario