Macro & Markets
- Six taboos that baby boomers avoid thinking about – Guardian
- How 30 years of a polarised economy have squeezed out the middle class – Guardian
- A hundred-year loan? Now that’s a long-term economic plan – Guardian
- Miners pray the commodities collapse has hit rock-bottom – Telegraph
- Early Signs Suggest Stronger Dollar Is Helping World Economy – WSJ
- U.S. crude prices to drop to $40 a barrel as inventories rise: Goldman – Reuters
- OPEC Sec-Gen says oil market should return to balance in H2 2015 – Reuters
- S. oil rig count hits lowest since April 2011: Baker Hughes – Reuters
- The rise of residential segregation – Vox
- Plummeting oil prices, depreciating oil currencies? Not so simple – Vox
Asia
- Pity Japan’s salaryman: Inside a brutal 80-hour workweek – CNN
- China and Canada seal deal for 10-year visas – SCMP…Australia next?…
- Japanese recovery much weaker than thought – Telegraph
- Fund managers may sell holdings to pay US$4 billion in taxes to China – SCMP
- Chinese banks turn to securitisation in bid to boost lending – SCMP
- China’s international payments system ready, could launch by year-end – sources – Reuters
- Kaisa haircut is bad omen for China property debt – Reuters
- Let China Make a Soft Landing – Bloomberg
- China’s February Exports Rise 48.9% – Bloomberg
- China exports climb sharply as imports extend slump – Market Watch
- From human waste to ‘black gold’ – China Daily…interesting read…
Europe
- ECB Said to Begin Buying German Government Bonds in QE – Bloomberg
- Creditors Reject Greece’s Reform Proposals – Bloomberg
- Greece ‘threatens’ early elections if reforms rejected – CNBC
- Spain’s Post-Franco Elite Under Attack From Rise of Popular Podemos Party – Bloomberg
- We need to bring back the Big Society – but without Government meddling – Telegraph, Halligan
- Warning: Brexit uncertainty will damage UK economy – Telegraph
- Swedish Krona Nears Critical Level Testing Riksbank Tools – Bloomberg
- German exports post biggest drop in five months in January – Reuters
Americas
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- Impacts of Obamacare insurance coverage expansion for young adults – Vox
- The Fed has an uphill battle on “wage pressures” argument – Sober Look
- At Goldman Sachs, Stress Test Results Could Endanger an Important Profit Source – NY Times
- Map: The salary you need to buy a home in 27 U.S. cities – Washington Post
- At the Fed in 2009, Rolling the Dice in a Crisis – NY Times
- Cooperation, not competition, could be way forward for Canada, Australia – Vancouver Sun
- ‘Capital is positioning’ for bargain-priced oil and gas assets – Financial Post
- What 27 Weeks of Unemployment Does to the American Worker – The Atlantic
Terra Australis
- Hockey plans to smash a world-class superannuation system – Fairfax, P.J. Keating …thanks PJK…
- Every Cent Aussie Drops Frees Up Billions for Australia’s Big Four Banks – Bloomberg
- Not exactly a super housing plan, Mr Treasurer – ABC, Verrender
- Treasurer Joe Hockey faces tough task in second budget – ABC
- Super ideas pour petrol on fire in the housing market – Pascoemeter, Fairfax
- Using super to buy a home would drive more people onto the pension – ABC
- Michael Keating. The 2015 Intergenerational Report – Pearls & Irritations
- RBNZ Likely Looking at New Tools to Avoid Rate Rises, Key Says – Bloomberg…how far ahead of RBA and Oz politics is NZ and RBNZ?…
- Aussie house prices, shares defy gravity – NZ Herald
- Man pleads guilty for his part in $79m Myra home loan fraud – Fairfax
- The sun isn’t shining on ‘old energy’ sectors – Fairfax…good read…
- Joe Hockey’s super idea not so super, say Paul Keating and industry chiefs – Fairfax
- Historic Victorian farms near Bendigo bought by Chinese buyers – Fairfax