Links 29 August 2013

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Global Macro/Markets:

  • Andy Kessler: Hedge Funders Are All a Little Nuts – Wall Street Journal
  • Asset Prices and Interest Rates – Marginal Revolution
  • Analysis: After mega-LBO boom, a massive private equity cleanup – Reuters
  • For the first time, the combined GDP of poor nations is greater than the rich ones – Quartz
  • Pimco: Media to blame for huge bond market exodus – CNBC
  • Latest rout in emerging markets is proving more selective. – Wall Street Journal

North America:

  • U.S. Faces New Threat From Washington – Huffington Post
  • Dean Baker: “Rising Mortgage Rates Did Not Affect June Case-Shiller Data” – Calculated Risk
  • Six Reasons the U.S. Will Dominate – Bloomberg
  • White House not yet vetting Yellen for Fed chair: sources – Reuters

Europe:

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  • “Crossing the threshold to recovery” – speech by Mark Carney – Bank of England
  • Carney says rates pressure might trigger more Bank of England stimulus – Reuters
  • The British are turning down “free money” from the government – Quartz
  • Angela Merkel: Greece should never have been allowed in the euro – The Telegraph

Asia:

  • India’s Rupee Plummets Past 68 to Record; Stocks, Bonds Tumble – Bloomberg
  • Indian rupee hurtles lower as foreign investors flee – Reuters
  • Latest on India: rupee in free fall, stagflation setting in, risks of sovereign downgrade and investor panic rising – Sober Look
  • Why $3.4tn in foreign reserves is not China’s escape hatch – Financial Times
  • China’s burgeoning credit crisis casts a long shadow – The AFR

Local:

  •  Coalition costings create Budget uncertainty – The AFR
  • Coalition growth plan cut down – The Australian
  • Throwing cash at cars makes us poorer – The Australian
  • Renters on the rise as home dream fades – The Age
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.