Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- CEO Pay Is Rigged – The Big Picture
- Rates on US Treasury Bills Rise to Highest Level in 8 Years – NY Times
- Two of the biggest Trump trades are losing steam – Yahoo
- India’s oil boom: Growing into role as No. 1 in global demand – CNBC
- A Corporate Bond Market Shift Is Underway – WSJ
- Global banks have paid $321bn in fines since financial crisis and more are still to come – The Independent
- The global decline of extreme poverty – Our World in Data
- Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year: WHO – Reuters
Americas:
- Conservatives pan House Obamacare repeal bill – Politico
- The GOP health bill doesn’t know what problem it’s trying to solve – VOX
- What Republicans Will Keep, Change or Discard With Obamacare – NY Times
- The GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Bill Is Here. Is This Just Obamacare Lite? – Reason
- Unemployment hits 25-year high – CNN
- Poll: 65% of Americans want a special prosecutor on Russia – Axios
- Obama Denies Wiretapping Trump: “Like I’d Want to Hear More from That Fool?” – New Yorker
- “The Reality Is, Half Of Americans Can’t Afford To Write A $500 Check” – Zero Hedge
- America’s opioid epidemic is worsening – The Economist
- White House Whiffs On Trade Deficit Defense – Forbes
- Puerto Rico’s Daunting Fiscal Math – Council on Foreign Relations
- Government of Canada invests up to $7 million in electric vehicles to tackle climate change and support good jobs for Canadians – Canada.ca
Europe:
- CDS markets signal rising fear of euro breakup – FT Alphaville
- Putin’s party signs deal with Italy’s far-right Lega Nord – FT
- UK prices rising faster after Brexit vote – Sky
- ‘Don’t Be So Desperate to Rub up Against Russia’ – Politico
- Le Pen could win in France, warns Hollande – Yahoo
- Germans debate a military buildup – Washington Post
- The Truth About Sweden – Weekly Standard
- ECB unlikely to boost bond lending to ease end-March squeeze – Reuters
- Greek economy slumps in fourth quarter, hurt by net exports – Reuters
Asia:
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- China exerts control over hot debt markets – FT
- Japan Finally Invents Spreadable Coffee for Toast – Grubstreet
- Explaining Thaad, and Why It So Bothers China – Bloomberg
- Abe says latest North Korean missile launch represents ’new level of threat’ – Japan Times
- Six Chinese Billionaires Spring Up With Delivery Fortunes Worth $47 Billion – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- We called Australia’s peak business groups on a Sunday – they didn’t answer – Canberra Times
- Minister who forgot about buying house luckily still remembered to negatively gear it – Chaser
- ‘A solution looking for a problem’: the downside to a Department of Homeland Security for Australia – The SMH
- Why is a public servant, not the minister, defending Centrelink? – Canberra Times
- Turnbull government quietly planning massive new Department of Homeland Security – The Age
- Leaked Liberal polling forecasts huge WA election loss for Premier Colin Barnett – The SMH
- Group within Labor Left are pushing for a ‘universal basic income’ which is not means-tested – Daily Telegraph
- Even Struggle Street is unaffordable now for young Australians – The SMH
- Tax man hits the streets looking for cash – News.com.au
- Airport prices increases should be reined in through greater ACCC powers, Labor says – ABC
- Perth freight link project should be halted, Senate inquiry says – The Guardian
- Voters will desert Coalition if deals done with One Nation, former Nationals senator warns – The Guardian
- Government warned over ‘irreversible’ impacts of climate change – ABC
- The case for renationalising Australia’s electricity grid – The Conversation
- APRA warns on apartment development – The AFR
- Fear and ignorance: Gas plant “explodes”, renewables blamed – Renew Economy
- SA taxpayers should buy gas-fired power station: economic board – ABC
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NZ warned by IMF on household debt levels – Interest.co.nz