Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A Progressive Logic of Trade – Project Syndicate
- The Most Complicated Stocks – A Wealth of Common Sense
- Why Monetarism Failed – NY Times
- Is Cheap Oil Contractionary? – NY Times
- Why no economic boost from lower oil prices? – EconBrowser
- IMF Warns of Threats to Financial Stability – IMF
- The IMF delivers a stark warning to national governments – FT
- Peabody, world’s top private coal miner, files for bankruptcy – Reuters
- Coal Slump Sends Mining Giant Peabody Energy Into Bankruptcy – Bloomberg
- Peabody Energy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection – WSJ
- Africa’s economy could be as slow as the rest of the world’s for the first time in 16 years – Quartz
- Nigeria Grapples With Abrupt End to Rapid Growth – WSJ
- Negative rates are not the fault of central banks – FT
- Banks Face Massive New Headache on Oil Loans – WSJ
- The Case for Free Trade Is Weaker Than You Think – WSJ
Americas:
- Five Big Banks’ Living Wills Rejected by U.S. Banking Agencies – Bloomberg
- Janet Yellen Talks Transforming the Fed – Time
- What tools does the Fed have left? Part 3: Helicopter money – Brookings
- We just got great news about wage growth in America – Business Insider
- Would Negative Rates Work in the U.S.? – WSJ
- The ’wealth effect’ could be shifting into reverse – Business Insider
- Bad Health Is Contagious and That’s Killing the Poor – The Atlantic
- Inside America’s Infrastructure Problem – New Yorker
- Brazil’s Impeachment Showdown Is Unfolding Unlike Any Other – Bloomberg
Europe:
- European Parliament declares democracy in Poland under threat – Reuters
- Soros: European Union in mortal danger – CNBC
- The Brexit Alarm – Project Syndicate
- IMF warns Brexit could wreak ‘severe’ damage in UK and beyond – FT
- Eurozone Bailout Fund Chief Discusses Greece’s Bailout Negotiations, Debt Relief – WSJ
- IMF says Greek debt ’highly unsustainable’, debt relief ’essential’ – draft memorandum – Reuters
- Greenland sees record-smashing early ice sheet melt – climatechangenews.com
- Denmark, a social welfare utopia, takes a nasty turn on refugees – Washington Post
- Average yield across German government bonds falls to zero – FT
Asia:
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- Olivier Blanchard eyes ugly ’end game’ for Japan on debt spiral – The Telegraph
- Chinese Scions’ Song: My Daddy’s Rich and My Lamborghini’s Good-Looking – NY Times
- China Has a $385 Billion Invite-Only Stock Market That’s Booming – Bloomberg
- China’s isn’t showing signs that painful reforms are raising its long-run growth prospects – Business insider
- It’s Never Been This Hard for Chinese Debtors to Pay Interest – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
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Hung parliament possible again – Canberra Times
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Soft drink tax ‘could save lives’ – Canberra Times
- Sugary drinks tax would ‘benefit’ health – The Australian
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Public misled in company tax debate – Canberra Times
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Australia, we have a (growth) problem – Canberra Times
- Population boom: how big is too big? – The Age
- Warning on lazy tax fix for Budget – The Australian
- Chinese poised to snatch Kidman – The Australian
- Retrain at 60, work till you’re 80 – The Australian
- Why Arrium’s banks lost patience – The AFR
- Scott Morrison lays out budget priorities – The AFR
- Tourism, education won’t save Australia, says Capital Economics – The AFR
- The campaigns for and against a corporate tax cut – ABC The Business
- The RBNZ is being squeezed from all sides and will have to think long and hard about its next moves – Interest.co.nz
- Govt sticking to Auckland housing strategy – Interest.co.nz
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