Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Guy Who Warned About Broken Libor Now Sees Fast-Money Financing as the New Risk – Bloomberg
- A Pessimist’s Guide to the World in 2016 – Bloomberg
- Why High-Yield Debt Selloff Isn’t 2007 All Over Again. Or Is It? – Bloomberg
- Pain for Leveraged Junk Bond Funds – Bloomberg View
- The Fed’s New Chapter Will Be Written in Dollar-Denominated Oil – Bloomberg
- Bouncebackability of exports after the Great Trade Collapse of 2008/9 – Bank Underground
- CHARTS: Oil has tanked. Can it recover? – Bloomberg
- For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says – Washington Post
- The economic hurdles for beating global warming – CBS News
Americas:
- The Fed may be about to atone for the “mistake” of 1998 – FT
- The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care – NY Times
- An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide – Marketplace
- Bernanke says he never expected rates to be at zero for so long – MarketWatch
- In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared – Washington Post
- Obama opens White House doors to forge CEO alliances – Reuters
- Larry Summers: What the Federal Reserve got wrong, and what it should do next – Washington Post
Europe:
- A European Border and Coast Guard to protect Europe’s External Borders – European Union
- Has Europe Reached the Breaking Point? – NY Times
- Emergency Opec meeting aired as Russia braces for sub-$30 oil – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- China’s Workers Are Fighting Back as Economic Dream Fades – WSJ
- Shipping Index Plunges to Fresh Record Amid China Steel Slump – Bloomberg
- Thai Man May Go to Prison for Insulting King’s Dog – NY Times
- Why can’t China make a good ballpoint pen? – Marketplace
- Officials admit to faking economic figures – China Daily
Local:
- Welfare crackdown concerns – Canberra Times
- ‘Lip service’ on baby formula – Canberra Times
- $1b blowout for ‘stopping boats’ – Canberra Times
- The evolving heart of modern marriage – Canberra Times
- PM’s ‘co-payment by stealth’: doctors – Canberra Times
- We can’t handle the Budget truth, just yet – Canberra Times
- Slowing property boom ‘good thing’ – Canberra Times
- You can bank on wrong forecasts – Canberra Times
- Why on earth does Australia still have tariffs? – Canberra Times
- Treasury calls it: housing boom over – The Age
- Debt bomb builds after surplus slip – The Australian
- Stuck in Sco motion – The Australian
- RBA says it still has scope to cut – The AFR
- Australia should be ‘alert to recession risk’ – The AFR
- Iron majors may tap ‘unprecedented’ pricing power to stem rout – The AFR
- Forget the previous rhetoric, we’re focused on what is happening with the budget – ABC 7.30 Report
- Myefo: budget banks on ‘unrealistic’ $13.9bn savings blocked by Senate – The Guardian
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