Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid – sniply
- The Credit-Card Kingmaker – WSJ
- With the iPhone Sputtering, Apple Bets Its Future on TV and News – WSJ
- How Often Is It a Stock-Picker’s Market? – A Wealth of Common Sense
- Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? – SSRN
- Bond Market Flashes Recession Warning Before Round of Auctions – Bloomberg
- The Debt Crisis Is Coming Soon – WSJ
Americas:
- A Cloud Over Trump’s Presidency Is Lifted – NY Times
- No Collusion. No Exoneration. – Bullwark
- Swift Pushback on Stephen Moore, Trump’s Latest Pick for the Fed – Bloomberg
- Fed Needs to Get With The Program – U of Oregon
- The Remarkable Renaissance in US Fossil Fuel Production – Conversable Economist
- Fueled by Strong Economy, U.S. Labor Force Defies Projected Declines – WSJ
- Stanford’s new AI institute is inadvertently showcasing one of tech’s biggest problems – Quartz
- Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History.’ – NY Times
Europe:
- It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD – Substack
- Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: report – Reuters
- Tory Islamophobia row: 15 suspended councillors quietly reinstated – The Guardian
- Brexit: Ministers tipped to replace Theresa May rally round PM – BBC
- Britain Is Drowning Itself in Nostalgia – NY Times
- Cabinet coup to ditch Theresa May for emergency PM – The Times
- Capitalism Saved Sweden – AIER
- Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials – LSE
- Brexit: the week when it all fell apart – The Times
- The Brexit farce is about to turn to tragedy – FT
Asia:
- China Has a Lot of Financial Opening Up to Do, Says Central Bank – Bloomberg
- Huawei ramps up foreign university investment despite US pressure – FT
- Trump’s ’economic illiteracy’ caused the US-China trade war, says professor – CNBC
- European foreign policy: a new realism on China – FT
- Japan braces for financial disruption when Akihito abdicates – FT
- China’s bids to improve food safety and welfare for its people are just empty words – SCMP
- Chinese Education Startup Puts Western Teachers on Notice – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- All Medicare rebates would go up in line with inflation from the middle of this year if federal Labor wins the next election – SBS
- Australian energy giant AGL ‘gouged’ customers after Hazelwood closure, new research shows – ABC
- ‘Out of line’: top Australian companies accused of undermining Paris deal – The Guardian
- New ABC chairman Ita Buttrose has history calling out ‘problems’ with multiculturalism – The Age
- China and US are the biggest investors in Australian water entitlement – ABC
- Why we have a booming budget and a sluggish economy – ABC
- Inner City Leftie Shocked Entire Population Don’t Hold Same Views As His 300 Facebook Friends – Betoota Advocate
- Number of Brits moving to Australia plummets amid Brexit uncertainty and a weakening pound – The Telegraph
- NSW Water Minister bows out following ‘threats’ and ‘aggression’ – ABC
- Where to find a home for under $400k in Australia’s capital cities – 9News
- Robo-debts scheme takes hard line: ‘We charge compound interest daily’ – The Age
- Frydenberg should call a no-holds-barred inquiry into superannuation now, because Labor won’t – The Conversation
- Royal Commission into terrorist attacks to be launched – Interest.co.nz
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‘A Critical Analysis of What is Wrong with Fitzroy North with Lindsay Tanner’
https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/a-critical-analysis-of-what-is-wrong-with-fitzroy-north-with-lindsay-tanner/
Interesting article on Ms Ita Buttrose!
Looks like she was against mass immigration in 1988! Being promoted to chairman of the ABC hopefully means that the ABC can start pointing out that it is ok to have the same immigration rate as Norway.
https://www.westmonster.com/eu-commission-increasingly-likely-uk-will-leave-without-a-deal/
No deal (WTO) Brexit on the cards.
Couple of interesting tidbits in this puff piece –
https://www.afr.com/real-estate/residential/nsw/how-it-sold-buyer-tries-to-steal-paddington-property-in-weak-market-20190324-p51737
Buyers with finance going low ball, knowing they have the upper hand.
The buyer who put in the serious lowball offer was “thinking six months ahead”. Real estate agent of course doesn’t think the market is going to fall by that much. Doesn’t seem to dispute it’s going to fall though.
Of course, they can’t bring themselves to name the actual sale price. They only do that when it sells above the price guide.
Steal? STEAL!!??
Pfft…that’s just a buyer not wanting to give their money away…
That agent needs to get out of Paddington and see the world.
Yes MB, the rhetoric used for the lowballing buyer does seem to have stepped up a notch, doesn’t it? Only a few months ago they were merely ‘cheeky’. Now they’re outright thieves! Offering anything less than the price guide will be considered an act of terrorism soon.
[email protected] the underbidder!
Lowballing is treason!
LOL!
Indeed, not long now and the authorities will be pardoning the likes of ‘Big George’ Pell just to make room for lowballers.
The dust is still settling from the NSW election and the tards at Newscorp are running hard on Labor’s franking credits tax reform already. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-seniors-to-be-hit-hardest-under-bill-shortens-retiree-tax/news-story/ The comments are febrile and I’d say it will be front page lies again as the federal election draws closer. Either Labor explain this 100% clearly or they will get aged and disability pensioners voting against them due to the propaganda war they struggled with at the state level.
A couple of links in the supplied selection go some way to addressing the collusion question, but don’t tell the whole story. I can help fill in some holes.
Yes. There was collusion.
By the MSM to take down a duly elected president. Make no mistake……this is high level criminal activity, and they have used memetic weaponry on a largely unwitting population to further their agenda. Our very own ABC + others are complicit in this. One should be asking….why are these people still pushing out their propaganda and ending up on reading lists such as the one above? To the readers…..be careful who you read. If the outfit and writer in question has a history of narrative/agenda push like the Trump Russia event……maybe you should rethink about reading any further. These people and organisations really are the enemy of the people. Let them starve while they await their very own trial for sedition and possibly treason. It is coming.
Yes. There was conspiracy. By the obama/clinton administration to take down a sitting president. This administration has worked hand in hand with the MSM and several foreign govs to manipulate society and to get their agenda back on track. Trump has just survived a globally concerted attempt of political assassination using the media as a primary weapon. It appears that this assassination process is now being transferred and continued via the congressional apparatus to now attempt to impeach Trump. The media are already priming the public as this link can show.
http://tinyurl.com/y4w9pwya
When one pathway collapses, seek another. Now the AG is supposedly tainted, so the collusion theory can still be pushed.
You may not like or agree with Trump….but we should respect and defend the civil systems we reside under.
I wonder how many US citizens voted against Trump-republicans in the last mid-terms because they had been convinced that their President had actually colluded with russia to win the presidential position………and can/should the last mid-term election be held as trustworthy? Can/should it be nullified? Should there be another election?
A tin of worms, it is.
Fascinating. Absolutely everything the ABC says about Trump has a “Trump is bad” spin to it. It is pathetic. They spew the bile from CNN and the Washington post without a second thought. In the UK where the financial times and the BBC are propagandists for the remain campaign. Add to that The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and of course the guardian. When was the last time you saw a positive trump story or a positive Brexit story out of any of them? The money behind these publications this massive. I don’t believe any of them unless corroborated, or contrary to the corporate agenda .
I guess this bloke is out of the dems presidential candidates pool now……or does this now elevate him above the rest?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-avenatti-charged-arrested-on-federal-wire-and-bank-fraud-charges-live-updates-today-2019-03-24/
CPL has issues.
‘The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center’
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center
Great article, thanks for posting.