Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The perverse effect of preferential rules of origins – VOX
- Radical Policy Ideas Resurface Amid Too-Low Inflation – WSJ
- Global Inequality: Branko Milanovic Takes on the World – Huffington Post
- Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1927 – Conversable Economist
- Benchmark reform could hit cross-currency basis – Risk.net
- March: Decoupling of global emissions and economic growth confirmed – iea.org
- Rich countries have a $78 trillion pension problem – cnbc
Americas:
- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Winning Votes, but Not Hearts – NY Times
- Trump Voters’ Aversion To Foreign-Sounding Names Cost Him Delegates – fivethirtyeight.com
- Rubio’s demise marks the last gasp of the Republican reboot – Washington Post
- Rubio’s Exit Leaves Trump With an Open Path to 1,237 Delegates – NY Times
- The GOP’s Mounting Trump Panic, in One Chart – Slate
- Hillary Clinton’s Excellent Night, and a Peek Ahead to the Fall – NY Times
- Fallen Credit Angels in America – Bloomberg
- Argentina’s lower house clears debt settlement package – Reuters
- Brazil’s cenbank chief signals he may step down -report – Reuters
Europe:
- Munich Re stashes gold and cash to counter negative rates – Reuters
- George Osborne’s sugar tax is half-baked – FT
- Osborne targets big business as growth outlook darkens – FT
- Huge challenges await EU’s migrant plan – FT
- Don’t be fooled by Russian ‘withdrawal’ – aei.org
- U.K. Growth Forecasts Cut Amid More Austerity, Osborne Says – Bloomberg
- UK unemployment at 10-year low as wage growth edges up – The Guardian
- Lord Hill: Brexit risks ruling us out of our best market – Standard.co.uk
- EU gravy train exposed as £17m of taxpayers cash is spent on jollies – Mail Online
Asia:
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- North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years’ Hard Labor – WSJ
- North Korea Sentences Otto Warmbier, U.S. Student, to 15 Years’ Labor – NY Times
- Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation – Washington Post
- China Seeks to Avoid Mass Layoffs While Cutting Production – NY Times
- Negative Rates Push Japan Banks From JGBs Toward Foreign Assets – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- PM urged to retain temporary budget repair levy on rich – Canberra Times
- New Melbourne-Sydney fast rail pitch ready for Turnbull – Canberra Times
- Effects test: what does it mean? – Canberra Times
- Would PM pass his own ‘effects’ test? – Canberra Times
- Extraordinary scenes are unfolding at Parliament House right now. But you’re banned from seeing them – Canberra Times
- Turnbull faces fresh Safe Schools revolt – Canberra Times
- NDIS savings to help fund federal contribution – Canberra Times
- The policy two years in the making – Canberra Times
- The Coalition’s economic falsehoods, fantasies – Andrew Leigh
- Checking your shares is bad for you – Canberra Times
- Peabody on edge, Australian jobs at risk – Canberra Times
- Bank capital requirement ‘may rise’ for investor mortgages – Canberra Times
- ATO struggles in push to drop scrutiny – Canberra Times
- Government reforms won’t wait for PC – Canberra Times
- Aussie Maccas workers aren’t lovin’ it – Canberra Times
- Why aren’t we developing Gen Y? – Canberra Times
- PM’s budget will be great. No, really – The Age
- Better policy can fix housing crisis – The Australian
- Lenders crack down on nation’s biggest property buyers – The AFR
- Tax breaks, and myths for rent – The AFR
- Is the Treasurer walking away from personal tax cuts? – 7.30 Report
- RBNZ says banks can handle dairy losses – Interest.co.nz
- ‘Migrants aren’t to blame for exuberant property prices’ – Interest.co.nz
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