Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Lyft is threatening litigation against Morgan Stanley, accusing the firm of supporting short-selling – CNBC
- In the past 8 years more than 1/3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges have been ‘hacked’ with losses totalling over $1 Billion USD. – Powder Wall
- The World Economy Is A Pyramid Scheme, Steven Chu Says – Forbes
- 70% of Wall Street thinks Trump will be reelected in 2020 – Yahoo
- The idea that broke the world: securitisation – Consciousness of Sheep
- Modern Monetary Theory Finds an Embrace in an Unexpected Place: Wall Street – NY Times
- Why the remarkable stock market recovery could just be getting started – CNN
- Why and How Capitalism Needs To Be Reformed – Ray Dalio
- Saudi Arabia Threatens To Drop Dollar For Oil Trades – Oil Price
- All Brakes and No Engine, Central Banks Seek New Inflation Ideas – Bloomberg
- A top marginal tax rate of 60% maximizes growth, for 18 OECD countries in 1965 to 2009 – Research Gate
Americas:
- Job layoffs surge 35% to highest level to start a year in a decade – CNBC
- Layoffs hit highest level for a first quarter since 2009: report – The Hill
- February Jobs Report Preview: Wage Growth Is Happening Fastest for Workers in Low-Wage Industries – Hiring Lab
- Americans 55 and older are suddenly losing jobs at the fastest pace in 4 years – CNBC
- U.S commercial and multifamily mortgage debt up 6.8% to $3.39tn in 2018 – CRE Herald
- Top companies are promoting perks like student-debt relief instead of Ping-Pong and nap pods, and job seekers are taking notice – Business Insider
- Market Concentration Is Threatening the U.S. Economy – Columbia University
Europe:
- Germany Tried to Remake the Eurozone in Its Own Image. The Trouble Is, It Half-Succeeded – Fortune
- Why Europe Axed Its Wealth Taxes – Yahoo
- Germany’s long economic upswing is over, experts say – DW
- Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure – Bloomberg
- Norway’s $1 Trillion Fund Told to Sell Emerging Market Bonds – Bloomberg
- German industrial orders slump most in over two years in February – Straits Times
Asia:
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- India Didn’t Shoot Down Pakistan’s F-16 – Bloomberg
- China’s Electric Vehicles Could Outrun Those In The U.S., Japan And Germany – Forbes
- Japan’s Nomura to cut $1 billion costs to revive wholesale business, shut branches – CNBC
- China is ‘a threat to the world and should be split up into 10 countries’ – Daily Mail
- How China Turned a City Into a Prison – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- How China’s consulate bullied local council, media over ‘anti-China ties’ – Canberra Times
- China pressured Sydney council into banning media company critical of Communist Party – ABC
- ‘Diabolically bad’ poll: Abbott facing 12 per cent swing to lose seat – Canberra Times
- The Morrison government has armed itself with a $5 billion war chest to fight the federal election – The Age
- Sultan of Brunei’s shock ties to Australia – News.com.au
- Pharmacy Guild of Australia defends making $15,000 donation to One Nation – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison will not call federal election for another week – 9News
- Abbott’s re-election backed by Communist-linked Chinese businessmen – The Age
- Women have a serious beef with the Budget. It’s time to throw us a T-bone – ABC
- The construction industry may be at an important turning point, particularly in Auckland – Interest.co.nz