Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Desperate Central Bankers – Project Syndicate
- The Return of Fiscal Policy – Project Syndicate
- Inequality: the very long run – rwer.wordpress.com
- A New Debate Over Pricing the Risks of Climate Change – NY Times
- OPEC May Finally Be Willing to Curb Oil Glut, Just Not Yet – Bloomberg
- A Secret Debt Club Gets Pried Open – Bloomberg
- Global debt climbs towards fresh high as companies and countries keep on borrowing – The Telegraph
- Gallo: Getting Close to Instability, Damaging Policies – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Our Fact Checks of the First Debate – NY Times
- Billionaire Banker Backs New Big-Money Group Aiding Trump – Bloomberg
- Donald Trump’s first presidential debate confirmed he has no idea what he’s talking about – VOX
- Hillary Did What She Needed to Do – The Atlantic
- Trump interrupted Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate – VOX
- The murder rate went up in 2015. It’s still half of what it was 25 years ago. – VOX
- Overall crime and shootings are down – Politico
- An Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Proposals – Tax Policy Centre
- Presidential Debate: New Polls Show Dead Heat Between Trump and Clinton – NY Times
- President Obama issues housing toolkit to call on cities to produce more housing and stop letting NIMBYs restrict development – Biz Journals
- U.S. Real Wage Growth: Fast Out of the Starting – NY Feb
- This chart shows why transportation has become America’s biggest climate headache – Technology Review
Europe:
- Germany Goes There: “You Can’t Compare Deutsche Bank To Lehman” – ZeroHedge
- Clicking fingers will not be enough for Brexit to work – FT
- The real lesson from Corbyn’s victory? You can’t hold back history – The Guardian
- German business morale shrugs off Brexit to hit 28-month high – Reuters
Asia:
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- Philippines’ Duterte wants to ’open alliances’ with Russia, China – Reuters
- Japan is having its FDR moment – Washington Post
- China’s risk-loving mom and pop investors have abandoned local stock markets for bitcoin – Quartz
- China’s Runaway Housing Market Poses Latest Challenge for Yuan – Bloomberg
- Kuroda Says BOJ to Make Utmost Effort for Currency Stability – Bloomberg
- PBOC Drains Most Funds in Six Months Amid Debt Curb Speculation – Bloomberg
- BOJ Policy Exhaustion Means Yen Will Rise to 90, Sakakibara Says – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Billionaire Banker Backs New Big-Money Group Aiding Trump – ABC
- Eighty-two per cent of Australians say loneliness is increasing, Lifeline survey finds – The Guardian
- Michael West: ‘PwC gives bludgers a lesson in corporate welfare’ – Michael West
- Pokie-Leaks: Australians urged to leak gambling industry secrets to politicians – ABC
- Eddie Obeid loses multimillion dollar lawsuit against NSW corruption commission – The Guardian
- Backpacker tax: Federal Government backs down on plan – ABC
- $500m tax watered down as Morrison compromises – Canberra Times
- Highest-Yielding AAA Aussie Bonds Lose Appeal as Repo Costs Jump – Bloomberg
- Australians left devastated after news SunnyBoys will stop being sold – Daily Mail
- Closing Victoria’s Hazelwood power station is no threat to electricity supply – The Conversation
- In Australia, China’s Appetite Shifts From Rocks to Real Estate – NY Times
- Labor’s surprising defense of rich private schools – The AFR
- ‘Dead, buried, cremated as PM’ – The Australian
- Chinese hunger for Australia food leaves $1 billion tax hole – Canberra Times
- It is hard to recall a bigger failure in recent political history than same sex marriage – Canberra Times
- Most Australians don’t want relatives to marry a Muslim: poll – Canberra Times
- Labor’s Jenny Macklin accuses Coalition of planning welfare cuts – The Guardian
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The term deposit squeeze tightens – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- More Than Money at Stake in Tesla’s SolarCity Deal – WSJ
- Passengers in Uber’s self-driving cars waived right to sue for injury or death – The Guardian
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