Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- ‘Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World’ – FT
- The world’s becoming more equal, so why aren’t we happy? – Globe and Mail
- The Only Way the 99% Should Invest in the Stock Market – chrisperruna.com
- Stick With A Simple Investment Strategy – FMD Capital
- Most investing is simple, but we complicate it. – systematicrelativestrength.com
- Who Has Two Thumbs And Is Wrong About The Financial Crisis? – Huffington Post
- The $1 Trillion Short Underlying U.S. Stocks’ Spring Awakening – Bloomberg
- Worst Week in Two Months Rattles Equity Bulls as Earnings Loom – Bloomberg
- Why the Banks Should Be Broken Up – Rolling Stone
- Global bond default tally hits highest level since 2009 – FT
- Why cheap oil fails to boost the global economy: IMF view – VOX
Americas:
- Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks – WSJ
- Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered – NY Times
- Getting a Student Loan With Collateral From a Future Job – NY Times
- It’s Over: San Francisco’s Epic Condo Bubble Bursts – Wolf Street
- Housing Bust Lingers for Generation X – WSJ
- By One Measure, U.S. Rates Are Already Negative – WSJ
- Puerto Rico’s impoverished pensions complicate island’s debt crisis – Reuters
- Puerto Rico governor declares emergency at Government Development Bank – Reuters
- How Come It’s Still Harder to Become a Hairdresser than a Financial Adviser? – WSJ
- Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use – Marginal Revolution
Europe:
- The Cheating Politicians of Iceland – NY Times
- French bank chief ’more worried about sector now than in 2009’ – Reuters
- Economic consequences of Brexit – VOX
- Two views of the EZ Crisis: Government failure vs market failure – VOX
- Greece Hopes for Draft Agreement With Creditors But IMF, EU Rift Remains – WSJ
- European Bankers Step Down as Panama Papers Pile on Pressure – Bloomberg
- `Brexit’ Risks Leaving European Banks With $123 Billion to Cover – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Shanghai wealth management firm comes crashing to earth as executives arrested – Reuters
- China’s robot army set to surge – FT
- Defaults Don’t Matter as China Junk Spread at Record Low: Chart – Bloomberg
- Singapore Overtakes Hong Kong as World’s No. 3 Financial Center – Bloomberg
- How to Fix China’s Debt Burden – Bloomberg
- Japan lashes out against yen’s rise – FT
- Japan Is Fast Approaching the Quantitative Limits of Quantitative Easing – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Two more experts have come out against the ACT light rail business case – Canberra Times
- Chinese investments in Australian property doubles – Domain
- Robb pushes aside pessimism and backs China – Canberra Times
- Lib MP warns of Whyalla wipe-out – Canberra Times
- We need war against corrupt conduct – Canberra Times
- Wake up to the importance of sleep – Canberra Times
- Boards ‘on notice’ over labour supply chains – Canberra Times
- Beef up the Fair Work regulator – Canberra Times
- Turnbull’s $300,000 lunch: Taxpayers slugged for China party – The Age
- “Budget nor about fist full of dollars” – The Australian
- Another hung Parliament looms – The Australian
- Cutting super caps would cost thousands – The AFR
- Australia’s economy – and the sprawling housing market in particular – is vulnerable to severe credit rationing if there is another global shock – The AFR
- Labor goes to war with banks over royal commission pledge – The AFR
- Predictions of a downturn for real estate trusts – ABC The Business
- WA set for $490m GST sweetener – ABC News
- Budget will not be about a ‘fistful of dollars’, Turnbull says – ABC News
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Other:
- The sugar conspiracy – The Guardian
- How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother – The Atlantic