Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- It’s time I reminded you how expensive stocks are – a 50% plunge would not be a surprise – Business Insider
- Monetary Policies in Advanced Economies: Good for Them, Good for Others – IMF
- Oil falls on concerns about supply glut, faltering demand – Reuters
- Commodity Carnage Continues – Copper Crashes To 6 Year Lows – Zero Hedge
- Oil Warning: Crash Could Be Worst in More Than 45 Years – Bloomberg
- Morgan Stanley: Gold Could Plunge to $800, and It’s Not Because of China’s Reserves – Bloomberg
Americas:
- 7 ways living in Switzerland ruined America for me – VOX
- GOP’s Favorability Rating Takes a Negative Turn – people-press.org
- Argentina rules out devaluation after black market rate fall – Reuters
- Socialism, American-Style – New York Times
- Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decreased to 255,000 – Calculated Risk
- Jobless Claims in U.S. Fall to Lowest Level in Four Decades – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Greece braces for troika creditors’ return to Athens – The Guardian
- The Return of the Ugly German – Project Syndicate
- ’Grexit’ struggle tests Germany’s power duo – Reuters
- IMF: Greece Has Not Yet Requested a Third Bailout from the Fund – Wall Street Journal
Asia:
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- Nikkei buying Financial Times from Pearson for $1.29 billion – Market Watch
- Giant Hedge Fund Bridgewater Flips View on China: ‘No Safe Places to Invest’ – Wall Street Journal
- Asset prices could plunge as China’s migrant miracle ends – cityam.com
- Here’s another sign China’s economy is slowing fast – Business Insider
- China’s looming stock market disaster is part 1929 America, part 1989 Japan – Quartz
Local:
- Albanese criticises Shorten on boats – Canberra Times
- Commodities tipped to hit rock bottom this year – Canberra Times
- Household gas bills to jump 30% – Canberra Times
- Household, industrial gas prices to surge on LNG export boom – ABC News
- Politics: ugly game where melee rules – The Age
- Australia needs to accept clean energy – The Age
- $170bn budget hit possible – The Australian
- Any tax rise is for the future – The Australian
- Property investors to pay as banks change lending rules – The AFR
- ASIC goes under the microscope – The AFR
- Labor’s unexploded bombs make PM’s week – The AFR
- Bank rate investigation of the Australian banking system – ABC The Business
- Prepare for candid talk about the Federation’s future, says PM Tony Abbott – ABC 7.30 Report
- Indonesia temporarily bans Australian citrus fruit imports – ABC News
- Shorten to issue climate change challenge to Abbott – ABC News
- ANZ and Commonwealth raising investor loan rates, cutting for owner-occupiers – ABC News
- Fortescue Metals says it will survive price falls, but analysts uncertain – ABC News
- It’s been a week of political daring (with some exceptions) – The Drum
- Shorten’s battle for electoral acceptability costs him party credibility – The Conversation
- Truthy untruths: behind the facade of the Intergenerational Report – The Conversation
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