Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Macroprudential policy beyond banking – Bank Underground
- Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis – NY Times
- Benefits of importing: Evidence from US firms – VOX
- Monetary policy credibility and exchange rate pass-through – VOX
- A lot of OPEC production sacrifice with little return – Bloomberg
- US Treasuries: On the cusp of a reversal – FT
- A Single Bitcoin Transaction Takes Thousands of Times More Energy Than a Credit Card Swipe – Vice
- Why 20th century tools cannot be used to address 21st century income inequality? – Global Inequity
- International GDP per capita comparisons – Mainly Macro
Americas:
- America’s Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure – Bloomberg
- Trump’s budget director claims Obama was ’manipulating’ jobs data – CNN Money
- Trump vowed to donate his salary. Has he followed through? – NBC News
- Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce – Washington Post
- Pro-Trump media sets the agenda with lies. Here’s how traditional media can take it back. – Washington Post
- Trump Lets Key Offices Gather Dust Amid ‘Slowest Transition in Decades’ – NY Times
- They are poor, sick and voted for Trump. What will happen to them without Obamacare? – Washington Post
- Another key Republican senator knocks GOP Obamacare plan – Politico
- White House Pledges No One `Worse Off’ in Obamacare Replacement – Bloomberg
- Trump Wants Faster Growth. The Fed Isn’t So Sure. – NY Times
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2015 – CDC
Europe:
- Brexit voting areas are going to be worst hit by the economic fallout – Business Insider
- Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal’s Hacking – NY Times
- Erdogan’s Dutch ‘Nazi’ comment sparks European backlash – FT
- Putin and Merkel: A Rivalry of History, Distrust and Power – NY Times
- May ‘will ask EU to pay back our £9bn’ – The Times
- ECB’s Smets says bank hasn’t taken first step toward removing stimulus – WSJ
- Draghi Outlook Snaps Euro Interest-Rate Bears Out of Hibernation – Bloomberg
- Making Athens Great Again – The Atlantic
- Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands – Washington Post
- Britain’s state is poorly equipped to enter the Brexit talks _ The Economist
Asia:
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- Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts – The SMH
- Moody’s: China’s sustained capital outflows to challenge policy effectiveness and exchange rate stability, although companies largely resilient – Moody’s
- China’s top court lists jailing rights activists as its biggest achievement – SCMP
- India’s oil industry shake-up may be in the pipeline- Nikkei Asian Review – Nikkei
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian households, businesses on NBN slam ‘unreliable’ connection – Herald-Sun
- Centrelink blocks 60,000 calls a day, blames smartphone apps – The SMH
- Federal Government pushes to ban unvaccinated children from childcare centres – ABC
- The Conversation’s FactCheck granted accreditation by International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter – The Conversation
- People are delaying having children so they can buy a house: Scott Morrison – The SMH
- Abused public servants help bring Turnbull down – The SMH
- Pauline Hanson declares One Nation’s WA election performance ‘a fantastic result’ – The Age
- Liberals the biggest losers after Pauline Hanson crumbles under pressure – The Guardian
- WA Nationals leader facing election defeat as count continues – ABC
- WA aftermath: Labor to delay Queensland state election in hope One Nation ‘implodes’ – The SMH
- Why SA should politely decline Elon Musk’s battery storage offer – Solar Quotes
- Rural businesses switch to diesel power as electricity prices soar – ABC
- Scott Morrison says Liberals would never make federal preference deal with One Nation – The Guardian
- Doctors call for lower car emissions – The West
- WA business lobby push for privatisation amid rising debt – ABC
- Under Trump, Australian mortgage rates should go higher – ABC
- Will super be freed for house deposits? – The AFR
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RBNZ seen as having to move much sooner on interest rates – Interest.co.nz
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Labour’s no-change tax stance danger – Interest.co.nz
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House building growth to slow – Interest.co.nz