Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Duration Risk: The Bomb Ticking Inside Today’s Bond Market – WSJ
- Negative Rates Around the World: How One Danish Couple Gets Paid Interest on Their Mortgage – WSJ
- What’s Wrong With Negative Rates? – Project Syndicate
- Helicopter money: Views of leading economists – VOX
- Global Financial Stability Report: Potent Policies for a Successful Normalization – IMF
- IEA Sees Oil Oversupply Almost Gone in Second Half on Shale Drop – Bloomberg
- Larry Fink: This is ’biggest crisis’ in the world – CNBC
- Financial cycles, labour misallocation, and economic stagnation – VOX
- How coal titan Peabody, the world’s largest, fell into bankruptcy – Washington Post
- Globalisation is changing, not going into reverse – FT
- How to break the links: Housing, banking and business cycles – VOX
Americas:
- The United States of Insolvency – Time
- Homeownership No Longer Has Tax Savings – realestateconsulting.com
- Home prices in San Francisco just fell for the first time in 4 years – Business Insider
- Jobless Claims in U.S. Decline to Match Lowest Since 1973 – Bloomberg
- How Obamacare Is Fueling America’s Opioid Epidemic – Time
- Ex-Treasury boss admits there was a ’monumental collective intellectual error’ in the run up to 2008 – Business Insider
Europe:
- IMF urges shake-up of Greek bailout – FT
- Negative Rates: How One Swiss Bank Learned to Live in a Subzero World – WSJ
- Britons ’too ignorant’ for EU referendum – Mail Online
- Germany should keep its hands off the ECB – FT
- The ECB can make a difference if deeds match words – VOX
- Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5% and the size of the Asset Purchase Programme at £375 billion – Bank of England
Asia:
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- Gold Demand Jumps in Japan as Sub-Zero Rates Spur Call for Haven – Bloomberg
- Why China Still Makes the Financial World Anxious – WSJ
- China’s leaders are blowing their last chance to avert an economic crisis – The Telegraph
- China’s economy stabilizes in first quarter – China.org
Trans-Tasman:
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Why corporate workers have shocking sleeping patterns – Huffington Post
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The countries beating Australia in education – Canberra Times
- Shut coal plants or miss climate goals – Canberra Times
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‘Chinese international pigs’: Uni tutor – Canberra Times
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Morrison to back tobacco tax hike – Canberra Times
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‘Imbalance’ widens generational gap – Canberra Times
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Banks pay the price for risky corporate loans – Canberra Times
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‘Real’ risks in global economy: Rio – Canberra Times
- Victoria to go it alone on $5.5b project – The Age
- Morrison stares down ratings downgrade threat – The Australian
- Part-time the new jobs trend – The Australian
- It is hard to think of a government that has been in such diabolical trouble at this stage of the cycle – The AFR
- Political failure ‘leaves Morrison to raise taxes for rating’ – The AFR
- Shorten unveils steel plan as Arrium flounders – The AFR
- Mathias Cormann denies the Government will lift taxes in May 3 Budget – 7.30 Report
- Interview: Chris Bowen, Shadow Treasurer – ABC Lateline
- The super sector is bracing for a budget hit – ABC the Business
- Australia’s natural assets worth $6 trillion to economy – ABC News
- Government flags tax increases for May budget – ABC News
- Numbers of young Australians in tech industry ‘an absolute crisis’ – ABC News
Other:
- The Minecraft Generation – NY Times
- Why Luck Matters—Much More Than You Think – The Atlantic
- The sugar conspiracy – The Guardian