Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Here’s How Much QE Helped Wall Street Steamroll Main Street – Bloomberg
- Bonds Send Same Ominous Signs No Matter Where in World You Look – Bloomberg
- What’s the natural rate of interest? – Marginal Revolution
- How Mergers Damage the Economy – NY Times
- The Liquidity Gap – Barclays
- Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun? – The Guardian
- Why are short-term real interest rates so persistently negative these days? – Marginal Revolution
- Oil Guru Who Called 2014 Rout Sees OPEC Production on Hold – Bloomberg
Americas:
- An Open Letter To Chairwoman Yellen From the Savers of America – Huffington Post
- Larry Summers: Where Paul Krugman and I differ on secular stagnation – Washington Post
- The Rigging of the American Market – robertreich.org
- GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates – Washington Post
- Foreign banks ‘window-dressing’ on US short-term debt markets – FT
- Krugman: Job-Killing Obama – NY Times
- Shift to Benefits From Pay Helps Explain Sluggish Wage Growth – WSJ
- How Tight Is the Labor Market? – stlouisfed.org
- Money is flooding out of Canada at the fastest pace in the developed world – Financial Post
- Judd Gregg: The pitfalls of a Puerto Rico bankruptcy – The Hill
Europe:
- ECB diaries show meetings with banks before policy decisions – FT
- Enlargement and the euro are two big mistakes that ruined Europe – FT
- IMF Pushes Europe for Formal Restructuring Accord on Greek Debt – Bloomberg
- I told you so. Obama right and Europe wrong about way out of Great Recession – The Guardian
- The baby, the bathwater and the European Union – Washington Post
Asia:
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- China aids eurozone QE drive with sales of German bonds – FT
- Shanghai Police Said to Raid Office of Hedge Fund Zexi in Probe – Bloomberg
- Exposed: China’s covert global radio network – Reuters
- China lifts renminbi fix by most in a decade – FT
- China is about to be included in the gold standard of emerging market stocks – Business Insider
Local:
- ‘It’s offensive’: seniors groups defend rights of older Australians to stay put in large homes – Canberra Times
- The ‘silent members of our society’ – Canberra Times
- Labor states could wave through GST – Canberra Times
- ‘Use tax changes to allow seniors to downsize’ – Canberra Times
- Growth is hard to bank on – Canberra Times
- Grocers lose $8 billion in three days – Canberra Times
- Get rid of state stamp duties, increase land tax – Canberra Times
- VW Australia hit with class action – Canberra Times
- Citizen who gave up on Australia – The Age
- Libs warn on ‘lazy’ GST reform – The Australian
- Taxes slashed with GST shake-up – The Australian
- Explain why GST rise would be good – The Australian
- Fixed wages ‘holding back jobs’ – The Australian
- Keeping low-paid in jobs a challenge – The Australian
- RBA rate decision down to the wire – The AFR
- Banking, fresh food likely GST targets – The AFR
- Chinese tourists to overtake NZ – The AFR
- Backbenchers increase government GST chatter and urge Australia to look at the NZ experience – ABC Lateline