An Easter Holiday, John D. Moore, 1925, Art Gallery of NSW
Markets, Macro & Investing
- These Trade Jabs Don’t Mean War. Yet. – Bloomberg
- Chinese steel mills’ April ferrochrome tender prices plunge: sources – Platts
- Microsoft, Facebook and the Bursting of Bubbles: Is the Collapse of the Market (finally) Nigh? – Medium
- Low risk as a predictor of financial crises – VoxEU
- Successful fiscal adjustments can also be achieved by raising taxes – VoxEU
- Why Aren’t US Bond Investors Panicking? – Project-Syndicate, Kaletsky
- China’s Handan orders 25 percent steel production cut from April 1 – Reuters
- Trade conflict fears to keep markets on edge for weeks – Reuters
- Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries – VoxEU
- The Dark Matter of Trade – Project-Syndicate
- Beware of Economists Crying ‘Entitlement Explosion’ – Bloomberg, Fox…this…
- Why 10-Year Treasury Yields Defy Conventional Wisdom – Bloomberg
- Bond Market Is Downgrading the Prospects for Inflation – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin’s Biggest Winners—or Losers—Are Likely to Be Men – The Atlantic
- Zinc output climbs, but uncertainty disrupts processing talks – Reuters
Asia
- Businesses, consumers uncertain ahead of China VPN ban – Reuters
- China March Factory Gauge Rebounds as Export Demand Recovers – Bloomberg
- Is India Ready to Take On China? – Bloomberg
- A Hong Kong Newspaper on a Mission to Promote China’s Soft Power – NY Times…there has been a definite change in tone on the way the SCMP covers China…
- Migrants look to Asia, the new land of opportunity – NY Times
- China fortifies Great Firewall leaving global businesses stranded – NY Times
- JOURNEY TO THE PAST: WHY OVERSEAS CHINESE ARE FINALLY EMBRACING THEIR ROOTS – SCMP
- China’s four-decade route to the world’s No 1 economy – SCMP
- BEIJING MUST CHANGE ITS WAYS OR US TRADE WAR LOOKS INEVITABLE – SCMP
- Beijing fast tracks foreign-listed Chinese tech firms’ A-share flotation with CDR system launch – SCMP
- China’s leaders sign off on new rules to crack down on ‘shadow banking’ – SCMP
- China Exports Shrug Off Talk of Trade War, Factory Gauge Surges – Bloomberg
- Hidden inflation: Japan’s labour shortage and the erosion of the quality of services – VoxEU
Europa
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- The U.K.’s Coming Sugar Tax Is Already Working – Bloomberg
- Putin Can’t Feel Russia’s Pain – Bloomberg
- The Return of the Euro Crisis – Value Walk
- Spy poisoning: UK plays down Russia complaint at plane search – BBC
- UK/EU trade deal? Boy, it’s going to be a complicated year – BBC
- Turkey grew 7.4% in 2017: analysts warn of blowout dangers in “warp-speed” expansion – BNE Intellinews
- ‘Homebase is the most disastrous retail acquisition in the UK ever’ – Guardian…has corporate Australia ever made a truly successfulinternational play?…
- AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle – Guardian
Americas
- The decline in quality of manufacturing entrepreneurship in the US – VoxEU
- “It’s Destroying Jobs And Destroying Value” – Former Walmart US CEO Explains Why Trump Is Right About Amazon – Zero Hedge
- There Is More At Stake In The Census’s Citizenship Question Than Response Rates – FiveThirtyEight
- ‘It’s Factory North America,’ but Trump Could Hobble It – NY Times
- Trump’s bundle of faulty claims about Amazon’s cost to taxpayers – Washington Post
- Toronto morphs into whole new ‘monster’ as houses slump and condos soar – Financial Post
- How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities and real estate markets – Financial Post
- How ‘computer geek’ Eddie Tipton pulled off one of the biggest cons America has ever seen – NZ Herald
- The U.S. and Russia Are Caught in a Downward Spiral – The Atlantic
- High Tariffs on Chinese Imports Would Weaken America – Project-Syndicate
Terra Nullus
- Corporate Australia – the mendicants who want more! – Bill Mitchell
- How, What and Why of Spiraling Borrowing Costs for Aussie Banks – Bloomberg
- A Chinese/German consortium looks set to be the big winner from the Government’s KiwiBuild scheme, with apartment blocks that will be factory-built in China and shipped to this country – Interest.co.nz
- Superannuation: ‘Women are having nightmares about their retirement’ – ABC
- Competition isn’t as wonderful as it’s cracked up to be – Domainfax, Gittins…good read…
- Stricter regulation and financial penalties on the cards for social media platforms – Domainfax
- Mining firm in talks with government over Clean Energy Finance Corporation oil field funding proposal – Domainfax
- Bankers for a gangster: Commonwealth lenders help mafia boss do laundry – Domainfax
- ‘Vacant space like a cancer in malls’: retail closures start to bite – Domainfax…they should see the centre of Geelong – vacant shops, discount carpets and rugs, Asian groceries, pawn and payday loans is where its at…
- Corporate tax cuts: What are the key issues in the debate? – ABC
- Franchisees hope Senate inquiry will stop them being ripped off by unscrupulous franchisors – ABC
…and furthermore…
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- Climate policy: When starting with the most expensive option makes sense – VoxEU
- Overlooked human ‘organ’ could play role in cancer spread – Business Times
- Should Tech Companies Be More Tightly Regulated? – Project-Syndicate, Johnson
- Is Liberal Democracy in Retreat? – Project-Syndicate
- Redemption of a Lost Prodigy – NY Times…good read…
- Neoliberalism corrupts the core of societal values – Bill Mitchell
- The Multibillion-Dollar Online Crime Industry – Medium
- The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd – Aeon
- We now have the first clear evidence cell phone radiation can cause cancer in rats – Quartz
- Facebook’s crisis demands a reevaluation of computer science itself – Quartz
- Facebook’s Ideological Imperialism – The Atlantic
- Job substitution does not equal job disappearance: Employment and education policies in the era of AI and robotics – VoxEU
- Housing policy: Learning from the past and looking to the future – VoxEU
- Lobbying and the efficiency of bank sales – VoxEU
- The ladder of internationalisation modes – VoxEU
- My Kid Is Too Smart for His Homework, and He’s Driving Me Nuts – Slate
- Russia, Saudi Arabia in talks for unprecedented deal to control oil supplies for 20 years – Financial Post…but they can’t unwind shale…
- Fatal Tesla Crash Raises New Questions About Autopilot System – NY Times
- Palestinians hold day of mourning after 773 ‘shot with live ammunition’ – Guardian