Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why companies like Lyft and Uber are going public without having profits – Recode
- In Defense of Neoliberalism – Boston Review
- Global economic growth forecasts cut again by OECD – Reuters
- Drop margin on swaps leaving Libor, Basel says – Risk
- MMT: Sense Or Nonsense? – Forbes
- The Market Says Climate Change Is Happening – Reason
Americas:
- Trump promised to shrink the trade deficit. Instead it exploded – Washington Post
- Cohen gives documents to House panel on Trump attorney alleged changes to 2017 testimony – CNN
- Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy – WSJ
- Regulators Move to Ease Crisis-Era Levers Over Financial Firms – WSJ
- Trade Deficit Soars to Record Level – NY Times
- Deaths by suicide, drugs and alcohol reached an all-time high last year – Axios
- The Fed – Beige Book – March 6, 2019 – Federal Reserve
- Full Employment Looks as If It’s Finally Here – Bloomberg
- Why Are Republicans Embracing Economic State Planning? – NY Times
- Trump’s trade illiteracy comes back to haunt him – Washington Post
- Mexican central bank in talks with Amazon about new… – Reuters
- Limits on Wall Street Pay Are Back on Regulators’ Agenda – WSJ
- The End of Recycling – The Atlantic
- America’s Job Market Is Defying Employer Labor Shortage Reports – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Brexiteer Lawson plans UK return after failing to achieve French residency – New European
- Italy set to join China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative – FT
- EU says ’difficult’ Brexit talks unlikely to yield swift deal – Reuters
- Death in Vienna – OCCRP
- Dear Mr Macron, your arrogance will only make Europe’s problems worse – The Telegraph
- No-deal damage would be less than we feared, says Mark Carney – The Times
- Brexit Countdown: Scenarios and Consequences – NIESR
Asia:
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- Trump Pushes for China Deal in Hope of Fueling Market Rally, Sources Say – Bloomberg
- A Senior Source Says Facebook Sees No Path Forward In China – BuzzFeed
- Xi Jinping needs a trade deal just as much as Donald Trump does – FT
- Huawei: The world’s most controversial company – BBC
- North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say – NY Times
- China Drops a Policy the U.S. Dislikes, at Least in Name – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s anti-encryption laws ridiculed on world stage – IT News
- The multinational mining giant Glencore spent millions bankrolling a secret, globally coordinated campaign to prop up coal demand – The Guardian
- The terrible GDP figures leave the Coalition’s economic narrative in tatters – The Guardian
- Bosses who underpay their workers to face jail – The SMH
- Life on the breadline: Centrelink’s ‘mutual obligation’ is a system of humiliation – The Guardian
- $500m funding for new private school classrooms – The SMH
- Living wage ‘would drive up unemployment’, employers warn – The SMH
- Scott Morrison argues that WA will decide who wins next election – The West
- Plans for Chinese-backed coal-fired plant in NSW’s Hunter Valley could reignite the climate wars – ABC
- Home Care: operators snipping 50pc fees from the elderly in home care – Michael West
- Future budgets are going to have to spend more on welfare, which is fine. It’s spending on us – The Conversation
- Morrison says asylum seekers could force Australians to miss out on public housing – SBS
- NBN Co reveals uneven spread of 50Mbps-capable premises – IT News
- Australia should start planning for universal tertiary education – The Conversation
- New harbour crossing to tackle Auckland’s gridlock back on the table – Interest.co.nz