Global Macro / Markets:
- Low interest rates, secular stagnation, and debt – VOX
- The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity – Mr University
North America:
- Detroit begins cutting off water to 150,000 residents, prompting appeal to United Nations for help – Financial Post
- Here Is The Reason For The Total Collapse In Q1 GDP – Zero hedge
- US GDP shrinks 2.9% in first quarter – BBC
- Third Estimate of GDP for the First Quarter of 2014 – White House
- Americans have not become more politically polarized – Washington Post
- U.S. rules to loosen four-decade ban on oil exports – Wall Street Journal
- Why elites hate it when you say giant student debts aren’t the problem – Quartz
- Is a Student Loan Crisis on the Horizon? – Brookings
- Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs? – New York Fed
Europe:
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- Why Britain’s armed forces are shrinking by the day and does it really matter? – The Telegraph
- Greek debt restructuring: Lessons learned – VOX
Local:
- Palmer kills carbon action – The Australian
- Victorian Coalition on the ropes – The Australian
- Vic Government facing landslide defeat – The Age
- Migrant workers “need good English’ – The Australian
- Piketty bingo a poor excuse to tax rich – The Australian
- More ACT light rail pie-in-the-sky – Canberra Times
- ABS foreign property data “patchy” – Canberra Times
- Palmer blows up Abbott’s carbon plan – Canberra Times
- Banks predict house prices will cool – Canberra Times
- MH370 transport minister axed – The Age
- The best place to live in Australia – The Age
- Palmer sets terms for carbon tax repeal – The Guardian
- A strange case of coal miner turned crusader – The Guardian
- Foreign policy clumsiness loses us the Asia Pacific – The Guardian
Other:
- Welcome to Drone Valley – Bloomberg
- Does Free Trade Favor Rich Countries? – Chronicle
- The troubling flaws in how we select experts – Washington Post