
Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why the media loves calls for a market crash – Above the Market
- The buyback boom is slowing – Pragmatic Capitalism
- How is the Global Market Index doing? – Capital Spectator
- Peter Thiel on diversification – Reading the Markets
North America:
- Key measures show low inflation – Calculated Risk
- Fed renews zero rate pledge, but hints at steeper rate hike path – Reuters
- Fed keeps ‘considerable time’ guidance – Financial Times
- Business Cycle Index points towards steady growth – The Big Picture
- U.S. considering options if oil export ban challenged – Reuters
- The Income Chart That Explains American Politics – The New Yorker
- Incomes for Most Americans Won’t Budge – New York Times
Europe:
- Towards a new collateral landscape – European Union
- Scotland Without the Pound Seen as a Threat to Housing – Bloomberg
- Spain calls Scottish independence a ‘torpedo’ against Europe – Financial Times
- Gordon Brown gives rousing speech to Scots in final campaign push – Financial Times
- Stop the scaremongering – Scotland can prosper, Yes or No – Financial Times
Asia:
- China Provides $81.4 Billion to Five Banks, Sina Says – Bloomberg
- Data Flaws in China Cities With Worst Air Risk Xi Pledge – Bloomberg
- Meet the Biggest Polluter in China’s Most Polluted City – Wall Street Journal
- What’s Lurking in the Shadows of China’s Banks – The IMF Blog
- Bribe case highlights west’s dilemma over China’s overseas probes – Financial Times
- China’s Moment of Truth: Financial Reform or Growth? – Wall Street Journal
Local:
- Will China’s dirty coal ban hurt Australian miners? – Business Spectator
- Risky business: China dumps our dirty coal – The SMH
- G20 must act now on tax avoidance – The AFR
- The boomers can’t save the world from a new stagnation trap – The AFR
- Time for the reform mantra to be modernised – The AFR
- Hockey vs Costello: Australia on the threshold of ‘greatest era’ – The AFR
- Tax sandwich may escape knife – The AFR
- Rent seekers: High prices aren’t causing piracy – The AFR
- Australian economy set to stay weak – The AFR
- WA leads way for personal savings – The Australian
- Victoria’s East-West Link bill tops $300 million already – Canberra Times
- Costello criticises Hockey’s debt levy – Canberra Times
- PM backs medical cannabis use – Canberra Times
- Governments roll dice on casinos – Canberra Times
- Up to 400 Holden jobs gone by Christmas – The Age
- RET future: no compromise in sight – The Guardian
- When the brain drain turns North again – Business Spectator
- Cheap downloads? That’s music to our ears – The Drum
Other:
- You can’t feed a family with GDP – The Upshot
- The reviews for the iPhone 6 are rolling and are uniformly positive – Recode
- How ISIS Works – New York Times
- Faith and Skepticism about Trade, Foreign Investment – Pew Global
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Oh God here comes the propaganda.
Australian Terror Raids
A week ago everything was fine, now, boo dawg terrorists!
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/australian-terror-raids-afp-asio-move-on-suspected-terrorists/story-fni0xqrb-1227062204389?nk=19f5422be82b20bba2f1f7ff6a6707c1
Scotland Poll, much bigger sample size this time, 3,237 vs around 1,000 or less for previous polls.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11103258/Scotland-will-reject-independence-but-only-just-says-biggest-poll-so-far.html
My guess No will win by a good 5 percentage points.
Traditional polling vs SocialWebsphere.
Look, 300 years of inertia certainly add something but, who knows, I am adamant that — unlike you — either way it will have HUGE consequences across Continental Europe, and it will circle back again.
Ask yourself this Lorax, in the last 100 years how many countries have voted to free themselves from London? You’re living in one of about one hundred o.0
The other 100 countries didn’t share a currency and a border with England.
We voted No in 1999. Nothing since, and we’re unlikely to have another chance until we elect another Keatingesque PM. The fact that we voted No when it was really just a symbolic change suggests to me there is Buckleys of the Scots going for it when it comes to the crunch.
The mere fact that the Scottish got a vote on independence will have massive repercussions. It will spark a wave of independence votes and devolutions across Europe and possible across the world. Significantly increasing sovereign risk for investors.
Nonsense the other 100 countries shared a currency most definitely, our “vote” was symbolic as you say, theirs not so much.
Also sharing a border (Hadrians Wall anyone) might be even more reason to do it…
Abbotts walked off from the walkabout. Is there anything that piece of sh#t is sincere about?
The drone story
Conducting “remote-controlled” wars
http://bit.ly/1uUCkuH
Is there a housing bubble thats about to burst in Australia … news com au … Kohler talking nonsense (video) …
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/is-there-a-housing-bubble-thats-about-to-burst-in-australia/story-e6frflo9-1227062516640
What a [email protected]!!!
Thanks Hugh