Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How Debt Makes the Market Volatile – WSJ
- Show Us Your Climate Risks, Investors Tell Companies – WSJ
- The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds – NY Times
- Amazon wants to sell “every genuine product in the world.” – Recode
- There’s been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation, possibly linked to global corruption – CNBC
- Why Are People Miserable at Work? – A Wealth of Common Sense
- Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked – Tech Crunch
- Why the death of Libor is a ‘Defcon 1 litigation event’ – FT
- Economics After Neoliberalism – Boston Review
- Global Trends in Interest – NY Fed
- Dalio: Why We’re Less Worried About a Recession Now That Growth Is Plunging – LinkedIn
- Macro reasons to loath protectionism – VOX
Americas:
- House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman To Testify – Daily Beast
- Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Annual 2018 (Initial Estimate) – BEA
- U.S. Economy Cooled as G.D.P. Grew at 2.6% Rate in Fourth Quarter – NY Times
- Republican focus on discrediting Cohen leaves little time to defend Trump – Washington Post
- Pedestrian Deaths Reach Highest Level in Nearly 30 Years – WSJ
- Get Rid of the State-Tax Deduction Altogether – Bloomberg
- America’s allies are struggling with two bullies – The Economist
- America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s – Bloomberg
Europe:
- No deal? No problem – Spectator
- The ‘Britain Alone’ scenario: how Economists for Brexit defy the laws of gravity – LSE
- Italy’s Venice to charge admission fees for tourists – Reuters
- Remainers could win a second vote – but they have to learn one big lesson – The Guardian
- UK regulator dismisses asset managers’ criticisms of cost disclosure rules – FT
- Norway wealth fund shrugs off Brexit, plans rise in UK investments – Reuters
- UK business confidence slides to lowest since month of Brexit… – Reuters
- Chinese consumers: your country needs you – FT
- UK consumers show ’amazing’ stoicism before Brexit – GfK – Reuters
- Greece’s Creditors Threaten to Withhold First Post-Bailout Funding – WSJ
Asia:
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- U.S. drops demand for full accounting of N. Korea nuclear program ahead of talks – NBC
- Trump’s Talks With Kim Jong-un Collapse After North Korea Demands End to Sanctions – NY Times
- WTO issues panel report regarding Chinese agricultural subsidies – WTO
- ‘There’s No Money Right Now’: China’s Building Boom Runs Into a Great Wall of Debt – WSJ
- China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces – NY Times
- US-China trade dispute puts a chill on American natural gas export boom – CNBC
- China Deleveraging Is Dead as $34 Trillion Debt Habit Roars Back – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia is the only developed country that allows climate change funding to be used to upgrade coal-fired power plants – The Guardian
- A history of compulsory voting in Australia (and why we are so good at elections) – ABC
- Morrison government bracing for fresh cabinet retirements ahead of election – The SMH
- Steve Ciobo set to become latest Cabinet minister to quit before election, gutting Scott Morrison’s frontbench – ABC
- Australia to sign free trade agreement with Indonesia, ending months of uncertainty – ABC
- Australia slips out of global top 10 on adherence to rule of law – SBS
- Australia’s property slump deepened in February – Bloomberg
- NSW Greens want ‘common sense’ wage cap for publicly funded executives – News.com.au
- Migrant cut could force RBA to reduce rates, warns housing industry – The SMH
- Scientists criticize Australia’s ‘questionable’ climate policy – Nature
- Government IT buyers can now ‘ask the market’ for creative solutions – The Mandarin
- ‘Highly unlikely’ the RBNZ will change its capital proposals – Interest.co.nz
- Taxes on wages & salaries spurt higher – Interest.co.nz
- NZ housing market is stable unlike Australia, says Realestate.co.nz – Interest.co.nz
- Has monetary easing really run its course? – Interest.co.nz