Weekend Links 21st – 22nd Sept

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Global Macro/Markets:

  • Global Equity Funds Record Biggest Inflows Since at Least 2005 – Bloomberg
  • Fed’s Guidance Questioned as Market Misreads Signals – WSJ
  • Emerging markets catch a break in the no-taper decision. – NYT
  • Market Unhappy After Bullard Suggests Possible Octaper – ZH
  • JPMorgan Guilty Admission a Win for SEC’s Policy Shift –Bloomberg
  • Hank Paulson warns of regulatory conflict – FT
  • Buffett Says Federal Reserve Is Greatest Hedge Fund in History – Bloomberg
  • Missing the forest for the QEs – The Economist
  • Our chat with Jeremy Grantham – WSJ

North America:

  • Hurdles Are Still High for a New Fed Front-Runner – NYT
  • Homebuilder and mREIT stocks nosedive – Housing Wire
  • The Era of Cheap Gasoline is Over – OilPrice
  • Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges – WSJ
  • Don’t underestimate this Fed’s dovishness – Gavyn Davies
  • Pushing off the taper increases the importance of the new Fed chair. – Economist
  • AAR: Rail Traffic increased in August – Calculated Risk

Europe:

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  • Merkel fights for majority in tight election race – Irish Times
  • Latvian Adventures – Krugman
  • Austerity seen easing with change in EU budget policy – WSJ
  • Nazi Murders – and what to do about them – Yanis Varoufakis
  • How a German tech giant trims its U.S. tax bill – Reuters
  • Despite Merkel’s Popularity, Angst Creeps In – WSJ
  • Banks in Spain, Italy look for relief in accounting – WSJ
  • EZ GDP since Q1 2008 – Cigolo
  • Venizelos to Asmussen: let’s ’reorganise the figures’ – Enetenglish

Asia:

  • Japan LDP Considers Draft Bill to Put Government in Control of Fukushima Cleanup – WSJ
  • Rajan Surprises With India Rate Rise to Quell Inflation – Bloomberg
  • Hedge funds are coming to China – Dealbook
  • Japan Condo Sales Running High on Abenomics – WSJ

Local:

  • Abbott: Open for business – And Multinational lawsuits – The Global Mail
  • NT government wants GST to remain at 10% – TheOz
  • ‘Remember what happenned to Skase’ – SMH
  • Victoria the most expensive place to retire – TheOz
  • Palmer leads in Fairfax, recount looms – TheOz

Other

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  • Rover challenges Mars life theory – BBC
  • Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control – NYT
  • Do Syrian Rebels Have Sarin? – Consortium News
  • The quality of Jobs: The new normal and the old normal – NYT
  • iPhones 5C/5S launch: Record crowds at Apple’s 5th Ave. Store – Apple 2.0 – Fortune
  • Playing starcraft 2 might make you smarter – TechCrunch