Global Macro/Markets:
- Can the Bond Market Really Be This Easy to Beat? – Wall Street Journal
- God is Making Gold Crash to Test Your Faith – The Reformed Broker
- Inflation targeting is not dead yet – Financial Times
- ETFs: Why They Are Dangerous – Barron’s
- The Gold Bubble Is Bursting: Who’s To Blame? – uneasymoney.com
- Fiscal stimulus anything but successful – The Australian
North America:
- Shiller and the Upward Slope of Real House Prices – Calculated Risk
- Growing student debt – Econbrowser
- Mortgages with 10% or less down are on the rise – USA Today
- Why Home Prices Change (or Dont) – New York Times
- Fewer Home Loans Start to Affect Banks – New York Times
- Boston Fed: Labour force participation – Financial Times
Europe:
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- German ‘Wise Men’ push for wealth seizure to fund EMU bail-outs – The Telegraph
- Cyprus to ease citizenship requirements, attacks EU hypocrisy – Reuters
- Germany puts brakes on EU bank union with treaty call – Reuters
- Troika concludes Greek bailout review, next aid tranche soon: source – Reuters
- Balance-sheet repairs in European banks – VOX
- From heart attacks to maternal care: the human cost of austerity in Greece – opendemocracy.net
- Portugal’s elder statesman calls for ‘Argentine-style’ default – The Telegraph
- Dutch government to rein in austerity in break from EU policy – The Telegraph
- Cyprus goes from bad to worse by the day; so does Portugal – The Telegraph
- Manufacturing Returns to USA (Jobs Not So Much) – The Big Picture
- Euro-Area Industrial Output Surpasses Forecasts – Bloomberg
Asia:
- Eddie Vedder And The Japanese Carry – barnejek.wordpress.com
- U.S. Says It Is Monitoring Japan on Yen Policies – Wall Street Journal
Local:
- Priorities + politics = poor policy – The AFR
- Property market momentum grows – The AFR
- Shares face losses on commodities rout – The Age
- Lower funding costs lift profits – The Age
- Vic Government takes axe to bureacracy – The Australian
- Costs, productivity, threatens mining projects – The Australian
Other:
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- The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment – Matthew O’Brien – The Atlantic
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier – The Guardian
- Which makes us more miserable: inflation or unemployment? – Washington Post
