Macro & Markets
- The Three Major Trends that Shaped the Global Economy for Decades Are About to Change – Bloomberg
- Lip service to money laundering: Failure to apply controls a serious threat to global economy – Financial Post…very good read…
- Swiss watchdog opens bank probe into precious metal collusion – Reuters
- China carbon trading not all bad news for commodities – Reuters
- The era of cheap labour is over – Guardian
- Global markets head into most dangerous month of the year on a wing and a prayer – Telegraph
- How Sweden’s negative interest rates experiment has turned economics on its head – Telegraph
Asia
- World haunted by heavy reliance on China – Nikkei Asian Review
- China kicks the can on SOE reform – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s Founder Securities says it cannot reach director amid probe by regulators – SCMP
- China Industrial Profits Fall Most Since 2011 as Growth Ebbs – Bloomberg
- Japan Deflation – The Grumpy Economist
Europe
- France’s Macron is wrong to think fiscal union is solution to eurozone’s woes – Telegraph, Bootle
- Osborne gets the need for Britain to trade more – Telegraph, Halligan
- Labour’s plan for Britain…in their own words – You Tube
- Seven reasons Volkswagen is worse than Enron – Financial Times
Americas
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- The Cities Where Millennials Are Taking Over the Housing Market – Bloomberg
- It’s sleazy, it’s totally illegal, and yet it could become the future of retirement – Washington Post
- Tax Reform – Donald Trump
- Trump Plan Is Tax Cut for the Rich, Even Hedge Fund Managers – New York Times
- Would a significant increase in the top income tax rate substantially alter income inequality? – Brookings
- Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065 – pewhispanic.org
Terra Incognita
- Group of Eight universities: End Australia’s ‘broken, mediocre’ research system – Fairfax
- Make coal firms pay for clean-up – Fairfax
- PM convenes mini-summit on economy – Fairfax
- Calls for urgent change to media laws – Fairfax
- No blanket reprieve for underpaid 7-Eleven workers – Fairfax
- Commodities slump to keep growth low – Fairfax
- Scott Morrison: no more slogans please – Fairfax
- Don’t allow FTA to slip away: China – The Australian
- PM to harness unity for reform – The Australian
- Maurice Newman: ‘Little chance I would have survived under Turnbull’ – The AFR
- Australia can’t pick winners: innovation expert – The AFR
- Coalition weighs restoring private health insurance rebate – The AFR
- Australia has trillions of dollars of unconventional gas, but getting it will be difficult – ABC
…and furthermore…