Links June 19: Fading joy

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Global Macro:

  • Do not put your faith in the false deities of economists (Financial Times)
  • Just how at-risk are investment managers to the disruption of algorithmic investment models? (Absolute Returns)
  • Egyptian Elections And Israeli Escalations (Zero Hedge)
  • Roubini: The Global Perfect Storm (Pragmatic Capitalism)
  • “Today’s retirees are living through what might prove to have been a golden age for pensions and pensioners.” (The Economist)
  • G20 begins to grapple with crisis (BBC News)

United States:

  • Home-Builder Confidence Hits Five-Year High ( Wall Street Journal)
  • NAHB Builder Confidence increases slightly in June, Highest since May 2007 (Calculated Risk)
  • The Problem With Henry May Derail U.S. Recovery (Bloomberg)
  • Fed Seen Twisting to Risk Management to Spur U.S. Growth (Bloomberg)
  • Banks Benefit From Plan to Aid Struggling Homeowners  (Wall Street Journal)
  • Fannie, Freddie Delinquency Rates and REO by State for March (Calculated Risk)
  • If US falls over the “fiscal cliff”, it would suffer a fiscal squeeze of 5% of GDP and probably a recession (The Economist)
  • Failure to formulate a grand strategy will only further fuel talk of American decline (The Diplomat)

Europe:

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Asia:

Local:

  • Rinehart seeks editorial influence at Fairfax (AFR)
  • News Limited in major redundancy program (AFR)
  • Tough love needed for quality media (AFR)
  • Too many investment banks in Australia (AFR)
  • Parko: reform before it’s too late (AFR)
  • Asia middle class “benefits Australia” (AFR)
  • “Learn from Australia” Gillard tells world (Fairfax)
  • Why Aussies are so pessimistic (Colebatch – Fairfax)
About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.