Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Creator of Bitcoin digital cash reveals identity – BBC
- World’s Longest Negative Rate Experiment Shows Perversions Ahead – Bloomberg
- Business cycle synchronisation and the Bretton Woods nostalgia – VOX
- Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficient – philosophicaleconomics.com
- Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession – NY Times
- As oil plows through $45 a barrel, U.S. producers rush to lock in prices – Reuters
- Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession – NY Times
- Goldman targets ‘mass affluent’ borrowers with unusual lending plan – Reuters
- Activist Investors Find Themselves in Crosshairs as Anti-Wall Street Reformers Target Short-Termism – ValueWalk
- Equity Risk Premium – The Most Important Number in Finance – ValueWalk
Americas:
- America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny – NY Times
- Puerto Rico says will default on Government Development Bank debt Monday – CNBC
- Gundlach is wrong about Puerto Rico – Medium
- Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island Will Default on Bond Payment – Bloomberg
- Looting On the Rise As Venezuela Runs Out of Food, Electricity – PanAm Post
- First U.S. cruise sets sail for Cuba – CNN
- America’s economy will rebound from this false dusk – Telegraph
- Puerto Rico debt rescue plan engulfed in Great Recession ‘bailout’ politics – Washington Post
- Puerto Rico to Miss Largest Payment to Date – NY Times
- U.S. threatens to block easing of EU car exports in TTIP talks, media report – Reuters
- The Economy’s Crisis Ended Under Obama, But Its Long-Term Problems Didn’t – FiveThirtyEight
Europe:
- Italy’s Atlante to Buy 92% Stake in Banca Popolare di Vicenza – WSJ
- Norway’s oil fund to target high executive pay votes – FT
- Germany’s AfD party adopts anti-Islamic manifesto – FT
- Anti-immigrant AfD says Muslims not welcome in Germany – Reuters
- Bank of England busy preparing for Brexit vote – FT
- Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal – The Guardian
- Paris plots to steal British jobs and woo US if Brexiteers win – The Times
- When Europe Stumbled – NY Times
- Get set for ‘diminishing returns’ from Draghi’s bazooka: Moody’s – CNBC
- Everyone’s lining up against Brexit, but voters aren’t fooled – Telegraph, Halligan
- Bank of England busy preparing for Brexit vote – CNBC
- Finnish NATO membership would lead to crisis with Russia: government report – Reuters
Asia:
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- Entrepreneurs are selling Australia’s fresh air in a can to China – Mashable
- In China, the New Casino Is Iron Ore – WSJ
- Abenomics is failing, warns Japanese opposition leader – FT
- Why So Many Chinese Students Come to the U.S. – WSJ
- China bounce-back feared shortlived as growth slows – Telegraph
- BOJ inaction provokes sharp backlash – Nikkei Asian Review
- China Lending Inflates Real Estate, Stocks, Even Egg Futures – NY Times
- Asia’s factories stay sluggish, stimulus lacks traction – Reuters
- First municipal hydrogen power plant coming to Japan in 2018 – Nikkei Asian Review
- Horseman Capital – Japanese Monetary Policy Monster – ValueWalk
Trans-Tasman:
- Morrison’s big fiscal play: it’s about the vibe not the money – Canberra Times
- ‘1000 will have to go’ in public service recruitment – Canberra Times
- Rich or poor, how do you stack up? – Canberra Times
- Labor pursues Sinodinos over donations – Canberra Times
- Experts ‘surprised’ by new house price figures – Domain
- LJ Hooker collapse: vendors sick with worry – Domain
- Poor shut out of schools – The Age
- 7-Eleven ‘used us as slaves’ – The Age
- Subs could sink ScoMo’s credibility – The Age
- RBA backed into a corner, says McKibbin – The AFR
- Expect more ‘sloppy accidents’ from banks – The AFR
- Budget 2016 must prepare for a post-China future – ABC The Drum
- Libs to play the imitation game in budget 2016 – ABC The Drum
- Labor seizes on Liberal MP John Alexander’s comments on negative gearing – The Guardian
- Inflation is scarily low – but it’s Morrison who needs to act, not the RBA – The Guardian
- Labor’s economic record is better than the Coalition’s and they must make it count – The Guardian
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Mortgage borrowing annual growth tops 8% – Interest.co.nz
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Keep tax low and wide – Interest.co.nz
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Operation Fox Hunt: Law council says extradition treaty with China is ‘a joke’ – Fairfax
- Why is the technology industry so afraid of tax? – Fairfax
- Bitcoin creator identified as Australian Craig Wright in confession to media – ABC
- Business conditions and confidence ease but remain solid: NAB survey – ABC
- Negative gearing helping drive housing prices up, Liberal MP John Alexander says – ABC
- Smart Cities Plan offers signs of hope, but are Turnbull and Taylor just dreamin’? – The Conversation
- Australia Post to charge up to $9 for delay in collecting packages – Guardian
- Why Economics Is Really Called ’the Dismal Science’ – The Atlantic
- Could paying everyone benefits – rich and poor – be the best way to tackle poverty? – Telegraph
- Toddlers have shot at least 23 people this year – Washington Post
- Hackers’ $81 Million Sneak Attack on World Banking – NY Times
- The Changing Face of UK Energy [INFOGRAPHIC] – ValueWalk
- Point: Breaking Up the Big Banks Won’t Stop Another Financial Crisis – ValueWalk
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