Global Macro/Markets:
- Government Debt and Deficits Are Not the Problem. Private Debt Is – New Economic Perspectives
- World shale production is potentially on a scale to change energy balance for the first time since 1970s – Business Spectator
- ‘Capital’ requirements for banks. What’s the beef? Untangling the obfuscation of bankers – Prime Economics
- Value investing returns to favour – Financial Times
North America:
- The Fed’s balance sheet and an expert commentary problem – FT Alphaville
- Why I’m more worried than Paul Krugman about the U.S. debt burden – Econbrowser
- How to Fix America’s Wealth Inequality: Teach Americans to Be Cheap – The Atlantic
Europe:
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- In the UK, the old get richer, and the young get poorer – The Independent
- The UK needs shock-and-awe tax cuts to avert a 1970s-style disaster – The Telegraph
- Can banks be forced to lend more? – BBC News
- UK in triple-dip recession? – The Telegraph
- Britain’s perilous austerity bunker – Financial Times
- Real Recovery in Spain is Still Far Away – Pragmatic Capital
- Ireland wows market with bond comeback – Reuters
- Euro-Region Industrial Output Drops as Slump Persists: Economy – Bloomberg
- Italy’s companies face slow ‘death’ as credit crunch deepens – The Telegraph
Asia:
- China’s Hot Real Estate Market Takes Broad Toll – NPR
- Japan’s employers, taking up the Abenomics cause – FT Alphaville
- China needs ore futures market – The Australian
Local:
- Could W.A. deliver the Coalition Senate control at this year’s federal election? – ABC News
- Report finds Australian cities are facing a transport & obesity problem – ABC News. Rapid population growth and urban consolidation policies don’t exactly help!
- Labour taps resentment on foreign work visas – The Age
- Threat to LNG as Japan unlocks gas – The Australian
Other:
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- Auckland mayor does about turn on housing – NZ Herald
- 32.7% of India’s population lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world’s poor – The Diplomat
