Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Life after the multilateral trading system – Bruegel
- Why Millennials are Failing at Investing – Medium
- The Gig Economy is Breaking Capitalism – Medium
- Something Has Spooked the Currency Markets – Bloomberg
- The global macroeconomics of a trade war: Findings from the EAGLE model – VoxEU
- Monetary policy in a world of cryptocurrencies – VoxEU
- U.S. oil shipments sailing for Australia highlight growing reach – Bloomberg
- The International Economic Policy Game – Project-Syndicate
Americas:
- $1.5 trillion student debt crisis: Many borrowers still don’t understand the costs – Yahoo
- The US posted a $234 billion budget deficit last month, the biggest one-month deficit in history – Business Insider
- Morgan Stanley to pay $150 million to settle California crisis-era mortgage charges – Reuters
- More than half of Americans who grew up rich don’t think they’re wealthy anymore – Business Insider
- US weekly jobless claims post biggest rise in 19 months – CNBC
- How progressive is Senator Elizabeth Warren’s loan forgiveness proposal? – Brookings
- “How Will Retirement Saving Change by 2050? Prospects for the Millennial Generation” – Brookings
- Maybe inflation is not dead as many major companies say they are raising prices – CNBC
- Think millennials are leaving Canada’s big cities? Think again, RBC report says – CBC
- Woman loses deposit on US$11 million Vancouver mansion, after abandoning purchase because Big Circle Boys triad boss Raymond Huang was murdered there – SCMP
- Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Forgive Student Debt Is Smart Politics and Decent Policy. Will Anyone Care? – Slate
- The 2020 Candidates Smell Blood – Slate
- New missile gap leaves U.S. scrambling to counter China – Reuters
- Warren’s College-Loan Plan Is a Decent Start – Bloomberg…how long before HECS debt forgiveness is an issue?…
- How to Make America Grow Again – Bloomberg
- Stephen Poloz inverts Canada’s yield curve by removing rate-hike bias – Financial Post
- Why this economy is less Goldilocks and more Three Little Pigs – Financial Post
Europe:
- Macron pledges tax cuts after nearly 6 months of ‘yellow vest’ protests – Japan Today
- Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank abandon merger talks – BBC News
- Royal Bank of Scotland CEO McEwan resigns after more than five years – Reuters
- The UK Government caught recklessly spending again in times like Brexit – Zero Hedge
- Britain confirms it will host economic talks with China in June – Reuters
- UK minister: Huawei leaks ‘unacceptable’, criminal investigation possible – Reuters
- Major German banks scrap merger talks after plan deemed too costly – CBC
- Going Dutch on clean energy? Polluters push for state to split the bill – Reuters
- Brexit’s Financial Turf War Enters A New Phase – Bloomberg
- Macron responds to yellow vest protests by promising tax cuts, more reforms – DW.com
- Ireland does not need a posse of super-charged, bonus-snorting bankers – Irish Times
- America’s Dark-Money Bid for Europe’s Soul – Project-Syndicate
Asia:
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- Markets unprepared for the impact of ‘massive’ Chinese policy shift, economist warns. – CNBC
- A firsthand account on the institutional decay of India, and how much of the Third World is falling alongside. – International Man
- Bank of Japan cuts inflation, economic growth forecasts – France24
- South Korea economy unexpectedly contracts in first-quarter, worst since global financial crisis – Euro News
- Beyond 5G: Huawei’s Links To Xinjiang And China’s Surveillance State – Forbes
- Xi Jinping’s Rocket Force is nullifying U.S. military primacy in Asia – Reuters
- Belt and Road forum: China’s ‘project of the century’ hits tough times – The Guardian
- China Retools Vast Global Building Push Criticized as Bloated and Predatory – NY Times
- China’s Belt and Road hits a speed bump in Kazakhstan – Nikkei Asian Review
- China lobbies ASEAN on yuan use, cracking dollar dominance – Nikkei Asian Review
- Why China Can’t Pull Up the World – Bloomberg
- China’s Xi Signals Approval for Trump’s Trade War Demands – Bloomberg
- Japan tells U.S. can’t link monetary policy to trade: finance minister Aso – Reuters…will Australian treasurers ever need to make this statement?…
- Has Asia’s middle class creation peaked? – Asia Times
- South Korea suffers surprise negative growth in Q1 – Asia Times
- Six key takeaways from Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Forum speech to world leaders – SCMP
- Xi poses a riddle and reignites speculation about his successors – Nikkei Asian Review
- Steve Bannon is right about overseas Chinese – they’ve been careful around Beijing and too silent on Xinjiang – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Government approved controversial uranium mine one day before calling the election – ABC
- Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign – The Conversation
- Bill Shorten rules out joint climate policy process with Greens if Labor wins power – The Guardian
- Flight Centre accused of underpaying workers, failing to pay penalties – ABC
- Coalition forgives Clive Palmer in sweeping embrace for Federal Election – ABC
- What’s the school cleaner’s name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing – The Conversation
- Shipping out: Unions, industry, defence analysts concerned by shrinking merchant fleet – ABC
- Inflation rate at zero: Sign something is ‘horribly wrong’ in the Australian economy – News.com.au
- Fact Check: Did Labor oppose the Government’s attempts to strengthen Australia’s gun laws? – ABC
- ‘Worse than GetUp’: Coalition slammed over ‘misleading’ Adani billboard – Canberra Times
- Improvements in mental healthcare are patchy. How can we help the ‘missing middle’? – The Guardian
- Australia has a high rate of casual work and many jobs face automation threats: OECD – ABC
- Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week – The Conversation
- Labor’s crackdown on temporary visa requirements won’t much help Australian workers – The Conversation
- Foreign policy should play a bigger role in Australian elections. This is why it probably won’t – The Conversation
- Shipping out: Unions, industry, defence analysts concerned by shrinking merchant fleet – ABC
- Shorten ‘not convinced’ on union demand to extend industry bargaining – Ninefax…Is Bill prioritising incomes or corporate profits?…
- Reserve Bank should call in the helicopters to drop money on Australian households: Citi – ABC
- Renewable energy investment looks to be going from boom to bust as prices collapse – ABC
- Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can – ABC
- India’s 1.3b people could be Australia’s next great trading hope – ABC
- The economy is struggling, and the election campaign needs to start facing up to it – Guardian, Jericho
…and furthermore…
- Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it – Guardian
- Paying consumers to increase their consumption can reduce the cost of integrating wind and solar electricity production into the grid – VoxEU…now there’s an idea…
- The Gender Gap Is Also a Confidence Gap – Bloomberg
- Automation Could Wipe Out Almost Half of All Jobs in 20 Years – Bloomberg
- Central Banks Have Broken Capitalism – Bloomberg
- Regulators Around the World are Circling Facebook – NY Times
- Cannabis, Marijuana, Weed, Pot? Just Call It a Job Machine – NY Times
- Colonialism as mitosis – the rise and fall of empires, rendered as cell division – Aeon…kick back in the beanbag, roll up roll up, and put this one on a big screen with a decent music system…..
- Did European colonisation precipitate the Little Ice Age? – Aeon
- How do we pry apart the true and compelling from the false and toxic? – Aeon
- Experts say ‘predatory’ essay writing firms are thriving, and there’s no law to stop them – CBC
- Tracking the toxic air that’s killing millions – BBC
- How to Regulate Big Tech – Project-Syndicate