Links 30 August 2013

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Global Macro/Markets:

  • ’The world is going to change here’: Alternative investments gather steam – Wall Street Journal

North America:

  • Choosing the chairman – The Economist
  • Yellen downplays chances of getting Fed job as White House deliberations enter final stages – Wall Street Journal
  • Summers and the Banks – jaredbernsteinblog.com
  • Q2 GDP Revised up to 2.5%, Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 331,000 – Calculated Risk
  • Wall Street’s Rental Bet Brings Quandary Housing Poor – Bloomberg
  • Cheap gas sees another US nuclear plant close – The AFR

Europe:

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Asia:

Local:

Other:

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  • The Oil Drum, peak oil and why some good blogs don’t last – Financial Times
  • Market-based bank capital regulation – VOX
  • Brazil hikes interest rates again to regain market confidence – Reuters
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.