Links 5 April 2013

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Global Macro/Markets:

North America:

Europe:

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  • Hungary aims to boost bank lending with zero rates – Financial Times
  • Why the anti-euros can’t win – Business Spectator
  • Draghi Considers Plan B as Sentiment Dims Post Cyprus Fumble – Bloomberg
  • German economic output ‘at near stagnation’ – BBC
  • If Britain is ‘broke’, it has been for most of the last 300 years – The Guardian
  • Bank of England makes no change to 375 billion pounds stimulus scheme – Reuters

Asia:

  • S Korea’s inequality battle – Financial Times
  • Japan & Asia: the knock-on effects – Financial Times
  • What Chinese Koreans in Seoul think of the North Korean threat – Wall Street Journal
  • 15 years too late: Reviving Japan (the ECB should watch and learn) – The Market Monetarist
  • What if air pollution gets so bad that Beijing just has to be evacuated? – New York Times
  • Fertility rates and population estimates for China – The Economist
  • One Soviet Leader China Could Emulate…and it’s not Gorbachev – The Diplomat
  • Why China’s Economy Might Topple: Martin Wolf – Financial Times
  • South Korean Ship Makers hurt by slowdown in commodity demand – Bloomberg
  • Bank of Japan: Introduction of the quantitative and qualitative monetary easing – boj.or.jp
  • Bank of Japan Boosts Bond Purchases as Kuroda Takes Helm – Bloomberg
  • Bank of Japan to double monetary base – Financial Times
  • Asian currency wars cometh – ibtimes

Local:

Other:

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  • The Bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: $4 to $6 Trillion – The Diplomat
  • Money should be printed for populations, not banks – Club Troppo
  • The death of peak oil – Econbrowser
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.