Links 25 March 2012

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Global Macro/Markets:

  • Leverage In The Western World – Business Insider
  • International finance: The end of an era? – The Economist
  • Hedge funds storm back into form in 2013 – The AFR
  • Gary Shilling: Global economies face an era of deflation, not inflation – Bloomberg

North America:

  • Why the Government Is Desperately Trying to Inflate a New Housing Bubble – 7 excellent charts – oftwominds.com
  • GOLDMAN: No American Manufacturing Renaissance – Business Insider
  • Mortgage Securitizers Didn’t Know Housing Was Going Bust – Wall Street Journal
  • IMF draft cuts 2013 U.S. growth forecast: report – Reuters
  • Housing Starts and the Unemployment Rate – Calculated Risk
  • A Pension Deficit Disorder – The Big Picture
  • Declining U.S. carbon dioxide emissions – Econbrowser
  • U.S. Natural Gas Gross Withdrawals (Million Cubic Feet) – eia.gov

Europe:

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  • The euro-zone crisis: Just when you thought it was safe… – The Economist
  • Bailout exposes differences within troika – Financial Times
  • Cyprus must avoid capital controls – Reuters
  • Eurozone break-up edges even closer – Financial Times
  • EU commission prepares ground for far-reaching economic powers – euobserver.com
  • Cyprus crisis could spread, Spain’s economy minister warns – elpais.com
  • Raiding Cypriot accounts will not save the banking system – Sober Look
  • Eurozone offers Cyprus the exit – our way or the highway – The Telegraph

Asia:

  • Signs of financial crisis evident in China: economists – Want China Times
  • China Vice Premier says economy faces headwinds, urges broad reforms – China News Daily
  • Economic tailwinds lift China banks – Financial Times
  • South Korea Escalates Concern With Japan Policies as Yen Slides – Bloomberg
  • S Korean hacking attack traced to China – Financial Times
  • Private Banks Sell Debt in Worst Quarter Since ’11: China Credit – Bloomberg
  • Health Consequences of Air Pollution in China – The Diplomat
  • Chinese housing bubble fears grow – The Globe and Mail
  • Marc Faber says investors should fear #China’s ‘colossal credit bubble’ – Market Watch
  • The “Fracking” Revolution comes to China – The Diplomat
  • 50 dead pigs found in river in Hunan (entirely different province) – Danwei

Local:

  • Big earners don’t realise own wealth – The Age
  • We cannot rely on natural resources – The Age
  • Australians oppose more taxes – The Age
  • Green tape threatens $200b of mining projects – The Australian
  • CSG riches confounded by states – The Australian
  • The price of a lame duck Government – The AFR
  • Are Australian business leaders prepared to deal with an economic downturn? – Paul Wallbank
  • Sydney housing – build it and eventually they will buy – The SMH
  • Where are all the FHBs going? – News.com.au
  • High Perth land prices force people into ‘convenient’ apartments – Perth Now

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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.