Global Macro/Markets:
- Yes the Financial System Is Rigged, but why not profit from it? – Business Week
- Jim Rogers: We’re Wiping Out The Savings Class Globally, To Terrible Consequence – Peak Prosperity
- Another step towards an East-West trade war – The Telegraph
- The IMF on the Austerity Trap – New York Times
- Investing: Growth and the markets – The Economist
- How Much Of The Stock Market’s Growth Is Caused By Its Shrinking? – Dealbreaker
North America:
- Confidence and Its Effects on the Economy – New York Times
- Does the U.S. risk a fiscal tipping point? – Econbrowser
- Forget the Good Jobs Report, Long-Term Unemployment Is Still Terrifying – The Atlantic
- And yet the labor force participation rate is still falling – Marginal Revolution
- The stagnation behind the excellent jobs report – Reuters
- Fed’s Duke Open to Changing Pace of MBS Purchases – Wall Street Journal
- U.S. recession began around the middle of last year – Econbrowser
- Fatal Fiscal Attractions – New York Times
Europe:
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- Greece may still have to quit euro: Merkel ally – Reuters
- European imbalances – VOX
- A “Politically Explosive” Secret: Italians Are Over Twice As Wealthy As Germans – testosteronepit.com
- Britain: a nation in decay – The Guardian
Asia:
- China to Raise Down Payment, Loan Interests on Second Home Purchases – Caixin
- Outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao: “China is still under considerable inflationary pressure this year” – AFP
- “Underlying inflation pressures are clearly building up” in China – Bloomberg
- “The Chinese government is caught in the dilemma of dealing with slower growth and higher inflation yet again” – Wall Street Journal
- China Fund Warns Japan on Yen – Wall Street Journal
- Calls grow to dethrone China’s too-big-to-compete banks – euromoney.com
- No US-style crash for Chinese housing market, predicts JP Morgan – Global Post
- China investors should bet on urbanisation – FT Beyond BRICS
- China’s Economic Data Show Weakest Start Since 2009 – Bloomberg
- 900 dead pigs in China found floating in Shanghai river – Huffington Post
- China scraps railways ministry in streamlining drive – BBC News
Local:
- First job option shouldn’t be 457 visas – The Australian
- NSW construction industry hiring bikies to collect debts from building companies gone bust – The SMH
- WA election: Barnett and the Liberals do it easy – The Conversation
- Swanny is no Paul Keating – The Australian
Other:
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- Yglesias on left economic mistakes – Matt Bruenig