Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Deutsche Bundesbank – Interviews – “Helicopter money would tear gaping holes in central bank balance sheets” – bundesbank.de
- What Tracks Commodity Prices? – NY Fed
- Maybe Wealth Inequality Isn’t Surging After All – Slate
- Speculators Most Bullish on Oil Since June as Output Talks Loom – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Cuba arrests dozens of human rights protesters before Obama’s arrival – USA Today
- Taste for Bacon Spurs Investor Feast as U.S. Hog Prices Advance – Bloomberg
- How money screws up presidential elections, and its not how most people think – acast
- What Republicans did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today – Washington Post
- Trump puts GOP House majority in jeopardy – Politico
- Stop Trump Movement Gets Boost From Mexico’s Efforts in U.S. – Bloomberg
- Donald Trump will (almost certainly) never be elected president. Here’s why. – Washington Post
- Fed’s Dennis Lockhart: Economy Could Justify Rate Increase as Soon as April Meeting – WSJ
- One More Big Reason You Can’t Buy a Home – Bloomberg
- Widening U.S. Home-Price Gap Makes Trading Up Harder – WSJ
Europe:
- The Tories are in government but are ungovernable – FT
- Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection – Ars Technica
- 68% of Digital Content Providers Geo-Block in the EU – Torrent Freak
- ECB policy spurs corporate bond sales – FT
- Euro zone yields edge down, Catalonia downgrade puts Spain in focus – CNBC
Asia:
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- LME strikes warehouse receipt deal with China – FT
- India: the last of the Brics left standing – prospectmagazine.co.uk
- People’s Daily Chief Warns of ‘Historic Mistake’ if China Loses Grip on New Media – WSJ
- China central bank to Fed: A little help, please? – Yahoo
- China can be climate change ’hero’ – NY Daily News
Trans-Tasman:
- Turnbull has transformed his prime ministership – Canberra Times
- Leigh Sales unloads on Turnbull – Canberra Times
- The millionaires who pay no tax – Canberra Times
- Public servants told to prepare for late nights – Canberra Times
- Foxtel’s radical Netflix move – Canberra Times
- Take another look at me: Shorten’s challenge to voters – Canberra Times
- Party like it’s 1987: remember our last double-D? – Canberra Times
- Treasurer ’emasculated’ over budget: Labor – Canberra Times
- A very real anger is lying just below the polite surface of society – Canberra Times
- The sugar-guzzling generation – Canberra Times
- Morrison left out in the cold – The Australian
- Keen: Get ready for a 2017 recession – The Australian
- Abbott: ‘Turnbull running on my record’ – The Australian
- How Brandis and Turnbull outfoxed Labor – The AFR
- The restoration of a building industry regulator and other proposed IR changes are matters of considerable import – The AFR
- Charter Keck Cramer says the housing market is “fully priced” but there is no bubble and no threat of a house price crash – The AFR
- Tony Abbott attacks tobacco and super taxes – The AFR
- Dr Gruen responds to PM’s tax policy as double dissolution loom – ABC The Business
- Standard & Poor’s sees an ‘orderly unwind’ in NZ housing market – Interest.co.nz
- How much debt is too much? – Interest.co.nz
- Migration boom continues unabated – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- How to win the war on drugs – Harpers
- Why millennials are the ’anxious generation’ – NY Post