Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Musings on Markets: Negative Interest Rates: Impossible, Unnatural or Just Unusual? – aswathdamodaran.blogspot.in
- Bond Traders Can’t Sleep as Fed Policy Becomes a Foreign Affair – Bloomberg
- Central banks beat Bitcoin at own game with rival supercurrency – The Telegraph
- Wall Street is obsessed with this technology that no one quite understands – Business Insider
Americas:
- Troubling warnings for the US from the 1930s – FT
- Trump Poses Unprecedented Threat to Democracy – NY Times
- The G.O.P.’s Economic Delusion – New Yorker
- Subprime Flashback: Early Defaults Are a Warning Sign for Auto Sales – WSJ
- Clinton: ’We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners and Coal Companies Out of Business’ – Weekly Standard
- Mend, Don’t End, Fannie and Freddie – washingtonmonthly.com
- The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do – The Guardian
Europe:
- Americans would never accept EU restrictions – The Telegraph
- Angela Merkel suffers dramatic setback in regional elections – FT
- Merkel set to lose support in Germany’s ’Super Sunday’ state elections – Mail Online
- Right-wing populists surge in Germany’s state elections – Spectator
- Merkel’s party suffers drubbing in German state votes – Reuters
- Osborne eyes £4bn in spending cuts to tackle growing black hole – FT
Asia:
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- China Tightens Restrictions on Insurance Purchases in Hong Kong – Bloomberg
- A Killing Tests India’s Protection of an Aboriginal Culture – NY Times
- North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb – Washington Post
- Bangladesh bank says hackers tried to steal $951 million – Reuters
- BOJ to debate exempting $90 billion in short-term funds from negative rates: sources – Reuters
- USA uses TPP-like trade-court to kill massive Indian solar project – Boing Boing
Trans-Tasman:
- Abbott rally jeers at Turnbull’s name – Canberra Times
- Liberal greats ‘wouldn’t deal with Greens’ – Canberra Times
- The hypocrisy of mega miners – Canberra Times
- Chairs, plates, coffee cups hurled like missiles as Sudanese gang descends on Federation Square and Brunetti’s cafe in Melbourne CBD – The Age
- Premier to gangs: ‘We are coming after you’ – The Age
- Stronger $A not hurting … yet – The Age
- Budget set to confirm our worst fears – The Age
- Crossbench bid to wedge PM – The Australian
- PM’s greatest danger isn’t Labor, it’s Abbott – The Australian
- RBA steels against RBNZ style rate cut – The AFR
- House prices are cheap unless rates rise – The AFR
- Contributions tax rate the low hanging fruit on the super tree – The AFR
- Why a low $A is crucial to Australia – The AFR
- Banking outlook: threats from technology, burst of housing bubble, end of mining boom – The Conversation