Links 18 April 2013

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Global Macro/Markets:

  • The Great Debt Delusion: How Math Keeps Proving Austerity Wrong – The Atlantic
  • Austerity after Reinhart and Rogoff – Financial Times
  • Reinhart-Rogoff on Debt and Growth: Fake but Accurate? – Bloomberg
  • Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made – HBR
  • Reinhart-Rogoff recrunch the numbers – Financial Times
  • Inside a Bitcoin ‘Grow House’ (image) – imgur.com
  • Debt to GDP & Future Economic Growth – owenzidar.wordpress.com

North America:

  • FRB: Beige Book – April 17, 2013 – Federal Reserve
  • Efforts to Revive the Economy Lead to Worries of a Bubble – New York Times
  • Young Student Loan Borrowers Retreat from Housing and Auto Markets – New York Fed
  • Roubini, Yellen square off over Fed interest rate policy – MarketWatch

Europe:

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Asia:

  • Stormy Days for ’s Solar Industry – The Diplomat
  • A China-Russia Alliance Brewing? – The Diplomat
  • East Asia’s Island Challenges – The Diplomat
  • Chinese cook had bird flu for weeks and died before being diagnosed – Want China Times
  • Yen’s rapid decline pushing imported energy costs higher in Japan – Financial Times

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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.