Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Be angry at bankers, be angrier at economists – The Guardian
- Not all economists are worthless – Fortune
- Traders have lost billions of dollars betting against Tesla – Business Insider
- BHP Needs to Prove Oil and Iron Are Better Together – WSJ
- Trade: The benefits of foreign banks – VOX
Americas:
- Poll: Narrow support for Trump’s strike in Syria – Washington Post
- It’s not just Syria. Trump is ratcheting up wars across the world – The Guardian
- America’s Fickle Relationship With Humanitarian Intervention – FiveThirtyEight
- Fed’s Yellen aims to let ’healthy’ U.S. economy coast along – Reuters
- A Trump Nomination Shows He’s Serious About Deregulation – WSJ
- California Moves to Become ‘Sanctuary State,’ and Others Look to Follow – NY Times
- How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine – NPR
- The San Bernardino attack is the 12th school shooting of 2017 — and the second in a week – Washington Post
- NAFTA wasn’t designed to stop cheap Asian imports, but it could be repurposed that way – Quartz
- New Venezuela clashes, US voices ’grave concern’ – Yahoo
Europe:
- Official: Russia knew in advance of Syrian chemical attack – AP
- Kremlin, angry at Syria missile strike, says Putin won’t meet Tillerson – Reuters
- Bank of England pushed banks to rig Libor, secret BBC tape suggests – MarketWatch
- This Is How Germany Sees Brexit – BuzzFeed
- Viktor Orban is Europe’s enemy within – FT
- Slovak media face fines for referring to ’Britain’ instead of UK – Reuters
- Greece, inspectors to resume bailout talks in late April – ekathimerini.com
- Who is France’s surging far-left candidate Melenchon? – Yahoo
Asia:
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- China ’deploys 150,000 troops over fears Trump may strike North Korea’ – Mail Online
- Big in China: Murder Villages and Scam Towns – The Atlantic
- First rail freight service to China departs UK – BBC
- Battle of Billionaires: Son Set to Clash With Bezos in India – Bloomberg
- China tightens collateral rules involving corporate bonds amid rising defaults – SCMP
- An Indiana Town’s Big Bet on International Business Pays Off – WSJ
- China, South Korea discuss more sanctions on North Korea amid talk of Trump action – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Most Australians think businesses will pocket company tax cuts – poll – The Guardian
- Adani: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with chairman, reiterates support for mine – ABC
- Adani mine needs $1bn public funding to go ahead, Barnaby Joyce says – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull tells Adani native title issues will be ‘fixed’ – The AFR
- Turnbull Allows Adani To Temporarily Airlift Uluru, Just To See If There’s Any Coal Under It – Betoota Advocate
- Jacqui Lambie presses government for 10% royalty on gas projects – The Guardian
- Centrelink’s ‘Robodebt’ System Has Issued Up To $3m In Bogus Debts (And Counting) – Life Hacker
- One quarter of ACT ‘robo-debt’ letter recipients owe nothing, or get debt reduced – Canberra Times
- Centrelink robo-debt ‘abject failure’ and arguably unlawful, Victoria Legal Aid says – The Guardian
- Network error: What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN? – The Monthly
- Experts call Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’ – New Daily
- The psychological effect of never owning your own home – Domain
- Taxpayers to be slugged for public servants’ networked homes – Canberra Times
- Home deposit proposal will undermine retirement system, Labor says – ABC
- FactCheck: do 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay ‘not one cent’ of tax? – The Conversation
- Huge 300MW solar farm begins construction near Port Augusta – Renew Economy
- Budget axe hovers over ‘hopeless’ work-for-the-dole program – The SMH
- Thousands Of Australians Come Out As Straight After Eric Abetz’s Moving Appeal – The Shovel
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‘We need time to catch up,’ Labour’s Little says of immigration – Interest.co.nz
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On NAIRU, and time inconsistency – Interest.co.nz
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