Macro, Markets & Investing
- The Federal Reserve Board Is Much More Likely to Take Your Job Than a Robot, so Naturally the Media Are Talking About Robots – Dean Baker
- Bond Yields’ Broken Link with Growth – WSJ
- Foreigners pile into China stocks as red flags loom – FT
Asia
- Major construction at North Korea rocket site, US institute says – Associated Press
- Shanghai Stocks Recover After Plunge – WSJ
- India’s growth trumps China, but data questioned – CNBC
- A goring concern – The Economist
- PBOC Sees Increased Downward Pressure on China’s Economy – WSJ
Europe
- ECB fears ‘abrupt reversal’ for global assets on Fed tightening – Ambrose
- ECB Says Long Greek Talks May Hurt Other Eurozone Borrowers – Wall Street Journal
- John Nash’s Game Theory and Greece – Bloomberg
- PM speaks to Merkel, Hollande as lenders increase pressure – Ekathimerini
- Greek exit from euro is ‘a potential’, says Lagarde – Financial Times
- Exclusive: Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine – witness – Reuters
- In Europe, Fake Jobs Can Have Real Benefits – NYT
- Tories wrong to buy votes with housing – FT
Americas
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- Economy in U.S. Shrank 0.7% in First Quarter as Trade Gap Jumped – Bloomberg , WSJ
- Shrinking Economy? No, but It’s Not Surging Either – NYT
- U.S. Accuses Ex-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Paying to Hide ‘Misconduct – NYT
- Political Fights Throw Sand in Gears of S.E.C. – NYT
- Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison – WSJ
- Fannie Mae: Mortgage Serious Delinquency rate declined in April, Lowest since September 2008 – Calculated Risk
Local
- The trouble with Medibank Private – AFR
- Apartments this property adviser avoids – AFR
- Tony Abbott rolled by his own ministers over stripping terrorists of citizenship – SMH
- Looking under rocks for above-trend signs – Gittins!
- Housing investor loan growth still breaching APRA limit – Business Day
- Barnaby’s intervention in Rinehart court battle ‘dangerous’ – Business Day
- Superannuation’s $8.5b inheritance bonanza – AFR
- Newman ‘hubris’ behind poll loss – The Oz
- Coalition avoids global humiliation – The Oz
- Molonglo and Lawson land overpriced by $100,000 or more: former Treasury official – Canberra Times
…and furthermore…
- Scientists believe the secret to energy storage may be in a cigarette butt – Business Insider
- Analysis: Understanding Tesla’s Potemkin Swap Station – Daily Kanban
- Solar-Powered “Capsule” Lets You Live Off-the-Grid Anywhere in the World – Walden Labs
- How Many Ways Can You Hide A Bribe? The Best Of The FIFA Indictment – Gawker
- Teens are fleeing religion like never before: Massive new study exposes religion’s decline – Raw Story
- The Economist Who Realized How Crazy We Are – Bloomberg
- Gross’s Terminal Keyboard to Be Displayed at Smithsonian – Bloomberg
- Economists have figured out who’s really to blame for exploding income inequality – WaPo