Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil Goes Nonlinear – NY Times
- Is It Over Yet? Two Weeks In, 2016 Feels Like Year of the Bear – Bloomberg
- Why This Market Meltdown Isn’t a Repeat of 2008 – WSJ
- The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment – Medium
Americas:
- Republicans now see a Trump-Cruz race, with time for a shift running out – Washington Post
- Trump’s New York Advantage – WSJ
- This is the single most stunning poll number on Donald Trump I have seen – Washington Post
- Clinton Campaign Underestimated Sanders Strengths, Allies Say – NY Times
- With Liftoff Done, the Fed Revisits Its $4.5 Trillion Quandary – Bloomberg
- Prices Drop for Luxury New York Real Estate – NY Times
- Americans are spending $153 billion a year to subsidize McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s low wage workers – Washington Post
- Venezuela decrees ’economic emergency,’ reveals depth of crisis – Reuters
- Venezuelan President Maduro Declares Economic Emergency – WSJ
- With the Rise of Justin Trudeau, Canada Is Suddenly … Hip? – NY Times
Europe:
- The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators – The Guardian
- Russia FinMin: budget to be short of over $38 bln at current oil price – Reuters
- The Tory Policy To Deport Your Friends – Medium
- The Greek who out-reforms Alexis Tsipras – politico.eu
- Switzerland joins Denmark in seizing assets from refugees to cover costs – The Guardian
- North African men suspected of stoning transgender women in German city – The Jerusalem Post
Asia:
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- China securities regulator pledges to strengthen oversight amid ’abnormal’ volatility – Reuters
- Tsai Ing-wen Elected President of Taiwan, First Woman to Hold Office – NY Times
- China’s economy grew by around 7 percent in 2015, services made up half of GDP – Premier – Reuters
- China Publicity chief demands crackdown on illegal publications– Xinhua
- Getting Money out of China – chinalawblog.com
- The yuan and the markets – The Economist
- Layoffs Loom in China as Growth Slows – Bloomberg
- China Stocks Enter Bear Market, Erasing Gains From State Rescue – Bloomberg
Local:
- AAA credit rating ‘would have to go’ – Canberra Times
- Turnbull PPL cuts ‘mean and stupid’ – Canberra Times
- What does Turnbull really believe in? – Canberra Times
- Dick Smith chief left ‘a broken man’ – Canberra Times
- Eating potatoes linked to gut diabetes – Canberra Times
- Xenophon’s plan for a new political force – Canberra Times
- Chris Berg: TPP is good foreign policy – The Age
- How to attract more Chinese tourists to Australia – The Australian
- Two tax options, but only one lifts the GST – The Australian
- City planning laws are out of touch with how people now want to live – The AFR
- Super tax change would accelerate bracket creep – The AFR
- Morrison considering two tax reform options, including $32bn GST hike – The Guardian
- How Australian households became the most indebted in the world – The Guardian
- Are we building a nation of PhD baristas? – Business Spectator
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