Macro, Markets & Investing
- US Fed’s gift to corporate debt issuers in China – SCMP
- Global grain supply system shifting out of US – Nikkei Asian Review
- Resource investors need long-term view – Nikkei Asian Review
- Shareholders’ dividend lust kills animal spirits, says Citi – Fairfax
- Barclays Warns Commodities May Slump on `Rush for the Exits’ – Bloomberg
- BlackRock Joins Pimco Warning Investors to Seek Inflation Hedge – Bloomberg
- Steel Rally Is Too Good to Be True – Bloomberg
- LNG producers need to go downstream to build industry – Reuters
- Negative interest rates put the global economy on a razor’s edge – Market Watch
- Short squeeze driving oil’s big rebound – Market Watch
- Chinese RMB – Did Central Bankers Just Save The World? – Value Walk…there is something in this…
Asia
- Chinese steelmaker defaults on HK$1 billion debt just days after ‘chairman commits suicide’ – SCMP
- Automakers Expanding in China May Soon Face Weakening Demand – NY Times
- Japan FY2016 budget clears parliament, more fiscal stimulus to follow – Nikkei Asian Review
- Mainland insurers downbeat about prospects for investment yield in world of falling interest rates – SCMP
- Can anything rescue Japan from the abyss? – Telegraph
- Investors Are in Denial About China – Bloomberg
- Why China’s Capital Outflows Are Easing for Now – WSJ
- China’s Economic Identity Crisis – Project-Syndicate, Roach
- Safe Havens: Global real Estate Assets of Chinese Companies – CKGSB…worth a look…
Europe
- Referendum fears hanging over the City and business – Telegraph
- Bank of England set to clamp down on buy-to-let lending – Guardian
- Only structural reform can halt Europe’s emerging bubbles – Guardian
- Most UK manufacturers are struggling to recruit skilled workers – report – Guardian
- Russia filthy rich but can’t manage money: Official – CNBC
- Why is Germany constantly clashing with the ECB? – CNBC
- Why Russian Oil Production is on the Verge of Decline – Economonitor
- No Country for Young Men (and Women) – Project-Syndicate…will apply to Australia too soon…
Americas
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- If consumers falter, so does the U.S. economy – CBS
- Canada’s recovery at risk in ‘twilight zone’ of low oil and rising loonie – Financial Post
- Decline of the U.S. Middle Class – Bloomberg, Noah Smith
- California plans nation’s first statewide $15 minimum wage – CBS
- Fed’s Williams urges U.S. central bank to stay on track with rate rises – Reuters
- Facing losses and grain glut, U.S. farmers to plant more corn – Reuters
- Home-Equity Lending Starts to Loosen Up – WSJ
- The Lost Generation of the 2016 Campaign – New Yorker
- It’s 2006 All Over Again: Expensive coastal cities are emptying out. Americans are moving to sunbelt suburbs. – The Atlantic
Terra Specufestorus
- Capital gains and negative gearing changes ‘manageable’, independent expert says – Guardian
- Kidman land sale: Chinese bidder for Australian cattle empire defends investment in foreign farmland – ABC
- Turnbull will have a tough sell on economic policy – ABC
- Deposit competition heating up: Suncorp Bank – Fairfax
- Australian dollar at mercy of greenback weakness – Fairfax
- Aussie Budget Deficit During Expansion Is `Alarming,’ CEDA Says – Bloomberg
- Australia `Embarrassing Circus’ as Turnbull Mulls Early Poll – Bloomberg
- China’s milk stockpile leaves New Zealand dairy farmers struggling – Reuters
- How to prepare our kids for jobs that don’t exist (yet) – NZ Herald
- First National Real Estate: network’s agents rebel over ‘cooked books’ – Fairfax
- Why are Australians so gloomy about the future? – Fairfax…being that far in debt would be a place to start looking…
- Foreign borrowers targeted in ANZ’s property lending crackdown – AFR…have Australia’s banks been given a pep talk about helping Chinese nationals circumvent capital movement restrictions?…
- Australia’s ghost suburbs a ‘national scandal’ – Uncle Rupert…definitely an issue around Geelong…
…and furthermore…
- U.S. Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple – NY Times
- The high cost of being poor – CBS…same in Australia, poor get taken to the cleaners…
- The money is on Hillary Clinton to bury Donald Trump – CBS
- The Swiss Houses Making Energy Efficiency Go A Long Way – Value Walk
- Eating something sweet can lead to a romantic date – Washington Post
- America’s biggest drug threat is 100% legal – Washington Post
- What rich countries get wrong about poverty – Washington Post…and what rich people never mention about wealth too…
- Clickbait is devouring journalism but there are ways out – Quartz