Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Supply disruptions in crude markets are easing – Business Insider
- Nasdaq to launch incentives to spur trading in low-volume ETFs – Reuters
- Demystifying Monetary Finance – Project Syndicate
- Bond Markets: Growing Ever More Bizarre – WSJ
- Volatility Drives Us Mad and Steals Our Future – The Reformed Broker
- Hedge funds double down on bets against oil – NY Post
- Wall Street’s New Target: Dow 20000 – WSJ
- Hedge Funds Are Far From Dead; Understanding Liquid Alts – Value Walk
- Danger Signs Of A Looming Recession? – Value Walk
- The Great Productivity Puzzle – NY Mag
- Saudi Oil Output Sets Record Despite Global Glut – WSJ
- Currency Markets Are Dead Right Now – WSJ
Americas:
- My Crazy Year with Trump: On Covering—and Being Insulted By—the Most Unlikely Candidate in GOP History – Marie Claire
- Trump Is In Fourth Place Among Black Voters – Five Thirty Eight
- The Typical Home in San Jose Now Costs More Than $1 Million – WSJ
- Trump’s long dalliance with violent rhetoric – Politico
- Obama Administration Set to Remove Barrier to Marijuana Research – NY Times
- What Links Donald Trump’s Economy Team – WSJ
- One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll – Reuters
- Trumponomics Is Reform Conservatism’s Evil Twin – NY Times
- So far, the Seattle minimum-wage increase is doing what it’s supposed to do – Washington Post
Europe:
- Immigration – the way forward – VOX
- Putin Accuses Ukraine of Terror as Crimea Tensions Escalate – Bloomberg
- Brexit, Trump: the trouble with claiming we’re in a post-truth era – The Guardian
- Joseph Stiglitz: The problem with Europe is the euro – The Guardian
- Brexit: Enough David Brent, this is serious! – flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com
- Return on UK government bonds turns negative – BBC
Asia:
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- Why China’s Bond Market Rally Is Risky Business – WSJ
- Echoing a Film Plot, Chinese Gangs Kill Drifters in an Elaborate Mining Ruse – NY Times
- Mongolia Calls for Economic ‘Crisis’ Plan; Bonds Tumble – Bloomberg
- Pitfalls of Global Hunt for Yield Highlighted in Mongolia Crisis – Bloomberg
- In China, Economic Data Highlights Growing Divide Between Regions – WSJ
- Alibaba Cautioned on Fakes in Rare Public Comments – WSJ
- Chinese traffic-straddling bus hits wall of criticism – BBC
- High-Speed Traders Abandon Microwaves in Korea on Exchange Snub – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Queensland to legalise Uber ride share service – Brisbane Times
- Public servants’ salaries still frozen … unless you’re a senior executive – Canberra Times
- Labor will reintroduce bill to force mandatory reporting of child abuse after Nauru files – The Guardian
- Peter Dutton says refugees self-harming to get to Australia, warns against Nauru abuse reports ‘hype’ – ABC
- Census IT testing consistently failed in the lead up to Tuesday’s crash. – News.com.au
- ‘Heads should roll’: Malcolm Turnbull lashes out after census night shambles – ABC
- Lesson of #CensusFail: continued funding cuts mean agencies can’t do their job – Greg Jericho
- Australian Prime Minister Turnbull Points IBM for Census Disaster – IT News
- Census debacle puts the Prime Minister on notice – The SMH
- Greyhound racing ban: New South Wales Upper House passes bill – ABC
- Hysteria about drugs and harm minimisation. It’s always the same old story – The Guardian
- Frydenberg to push ahead with repeal of ARENA grant funding : Renew Economy – Renew Economy
- Port of Melbourne sale: ACCC gives consortia green light to bid – ABC
- Why do students enrol in massively oversupplied university degrees? – WA Today
- Beware of China’s confected outrage on Ausgrid – The AFR
- These are the states and territories where Uber is (and isn’t) legal – ABC
- Shifting the risks of doing business from companies to workers – Lateline
- Fund managers including AMP under fire for high fees – ABC
- It’s broken [monetary policy]; but how do you fix it? – Interest.co.nz
- Could immigration controls be the solution to New Zealand’s frothy housing market? – FT
Other:
- The Miracle of the Modern Banana – National Geographic