Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Elite funds prepare for reflation and a bloodbath for bonds – The Telegraph
- Macro effects of capital inflows: Capital type matters – VOX
- Big Banks Accused of Monopolizing Interest Rate-Swap Market – Bloomberg
- Evidence that low real rates will persist – VOX
Americas:
- Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.) – Washington Post
- New York Times slams Trump’s mocking of reporter as ’outrageous’ – Politco
- How Chicago tried to cover up a police execution – chicagoreporter.com
- Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions dropped in nearly every state over the last 8 years – Scientific American
- America’s higher education brought low – Washington Post
- Hunger costs US extra $160bn a year to treat chronic illnesses – The Guardian
Europe:
- The Great Greek Shipping Myth – Reuters
- Iceland’s seven meagre years – VOX
- The UK productivity puzzle: The Trojan horse – VOX
- Sweden slams shut its open-door policy towards refugees – The Guardian
- VW ’finds another software problem affecting fuel consumption’ – The Telegraph
- Spain’s Economy Expands at Fastest Annual Pace Since Financial Crisis – WSJ
- Russian Banks Face More Pain – Bloomberg
- Draghi, a Rabbit, the Euro and the Magic Trick Traders Envision – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- In Land of 3,500% Stock Gains, Crashes Are Quickly Forgotten – Bloomberg
- China Has a Yuan for Luxury, But Not at Home – WSJ
- China’s ‘national team’ owns 6% of stock market – FT
- China and Europe test bilateral currency swap operations: PBOC – Reuters
- China Announces Military Overhaul to Make Army More Combat Ready – Bloomberg
- 25 Years of Stock Market Milestones for China – Bloomberg
Local:
- Taxi plate owner slapped down by ACCC over call to fight fire with fire – Canberra Times
- PM rejects Abbott-insurgency talk – Canberra Times
- Weatherill breaks ranks over GST increase – Canberra Times
- Water: We’re using less but paying more – Canberra Times
- Discount for upfront uni fees faces axe – Canberra Times
- Overhaul for mental health system – Canberra Times
- Senate sinks bill that would entice $2 an hour crews – Canberra Times
- Up to 12,000 students in limbo – Canberra Times
- Vocation placed in administration – Canberra Times
- Women, want a pay rise? Ask for one – Canberra Times
- Capex slide puts Budget forecasts in doubt – Canberra Times
- Saving the little superannuation fish, catching the big ones – Canberra Times
- Rio says resources slump to last at least five years – Canberra Times
- Labor doubles carbon emissions target – The Australian
- Cutbacks eyed for super breaks – The Australian
- Get a new job, Tony – The Australian
- What’s not for Morrison to dislike in Weatherill’s tax plan? – The Australian
- Superannuation: let’s make a good thing even better – The Australian
- Morrison readies wealthy for loss of tax concessions – The AFR
- House prices are cooling, not crashing – The AFR
- Fact check: Does Australia export cleaner coal than many other countries? – ABC News
- Weatherill reveals radical plan to hike GST in bid to solve health funding crisis – ABC News
- Demand for Australian meat not a ‘boom’, agricultural economist says – ABC News
- Uber should not have been allowed, say WA taxi drivers – ABC News