Links 22 April 2016

Macro, Markets & Investing

• Solar energy finally finding a home where the sun shines – The Economist
• The great executive pay revolt – BBC
• The migration superpowers – Project Syndicate
• Gold and silver are soaring again as central bank control on deflation slips – Zero Hedge

Asia

• Officially unofficial: Democracy is not the answer for a happier Hong Kong: SCMP

Europe

• Super Mario keeps interest rates super low as the ECB meets – Reuters
• Euro bond yields spike as Mario holds back the bazookas – Zero Hedge
• But the stimulus shall flow. The stimulus MUST flow – Bloomberg
• Russian/NATO relations still thawing in latest meeting over Ukraine – IBT

Americas

• Republican elderly statemen weigh up if they’ll go to the convention – Bloomberg (I wouldn’t go either – it will be a hive of scum and villainy)
• The men who gave Trump his brutal, winner takes all, barbaric worldview – Politico
• Initial weekly jobless claims fall to 40 year low – Calculated Risk

Terra Incognita

• Budget is not just about beating Shorten – Laura Tingle (what the national long term interest instead? I think you underestimate their power!)
• No problems paying the mortgage – AFR (its not the ones with substantial equity to worry about)

…and awesome sauce

• Venus may actually have some of the coldest temperatures in the solar system – IFL Science

By land and sea pic.twitter.com/C5QWfNy99r

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2016