Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Fund managers worth $10.2tr urge oil firms to align with Paris Agreement goals – Business Green
- Wealth Destruction for the 99.9 Percent – BATR
- Breaking up big companies and market power concentration – Bruegel
- U.S. Stocks Rise… Consumer Spending Rose In February And March, While Inflation Remained Muted – Stock Market News
- As Consumerism Spreads, Earth Suffers, Study Says – National Geographic
- Warren Buffett says Berkshire could buy back $100 billion stock – CNBC
- Hedge Funds Are Shorting the VIX at a Rate Never Seen Before – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It. – NY Times
- Student Debt Is Stopping U.S. Millennials from Becoming Entrepreneurs – HBR
- 20% of elderly Americans are either employed or looking for work. Here’s why. – Big Think
- Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think – NY Times
- The Fed is looking at a new program that could be another version of ‘quantitative easing’ – CNBC
- Higher minimum wage means restaurants raise prices and fewer employee hours, survey finds – CNBC
- Worker earnings stagnant as wage gaps persist in first quarter of 2019 – Chron
- Argentina: You Can’t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy – Dollar Collapse
- Fed Seems Resigned to Bubble Risk in Effort to Extend Expansion – Bloomberg
Europe:
- How UK austerity is made: economic storytelling about debt – LSE
- ECB: Credit rating dynamics: evidence from a natural experiment – Europa
- European real estate assets record strong income and capital growth – CRE Herald
- How EU elections are dividing the European parliament over Brexit – Independent
- Germany will continue to train soldiers from Saudi Arabia despite its brutal military campaign in Yemen – DW
- Austrian vice chancellor says party will fight ‘population exchange’ – Politico
- Drop Huawei or we could cut intelligence ties, US warns UK – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Sri Lanka expects visitor numbers to plunge 25% following terrorist attacks – The National
- Taiwan’s richest man says his run for president is divinely inspired – The Economist
- Sri Lanka Bans Face Veils After Attacks by Islamist Militants – Reuters
- Beijing Hosts 40 Nations for ‘Belt and Road’ Summit – VOA News
- China’s Rocket Start-ups Go Small in Age of “Shoebox” Satellites – Reuters
- Singapore Talking With More Electric Car Companies After Dyson, But Tesla Apparently Not Among Them – Japan Times
Trans-Tasman:
- One Nation candidate Steve Dickson resigns over strip club videos – ABC
- ‘Anyone can buy an ad’: Unions mobilise thousands of volunteers in marginal seats in wages campaign – The SMH
- ‘It just makes sense’: Nationals leader Michael McCormack spruiks ‘deal’ with One Nation – The SMH
- Public schools actually outperform private schools, and with less money – The Conversation
- Soon you won’t need a passport — but the delays will be diabolical if something goes wrong – ABC
- Sydney’s median house prices on track to fall below $1 million, analysts say – ABC
- Sydney electorate would get more from Coalition tax cuts than all of Tasmania – The Guardian
- Australia can be powered 100% by renewables by early 2030s, says Garnaut – Renew Economy
- Indonesian environmentalists accuse Australia of ‘smuggling’ plastic waste following China ban – ABC
- Bill Shorten’s path to victory is to avoid a two-man slugfest – The Guardian
- Fact checking key claims of the 2019 federal election leaders’ debate – ABC
- Residential building intentions fall further to decade-low – Interest.co.nz
- The Government has plenty of CGT alternatives to control house price inflation – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ capital proposals threaten serious disruption to big bank shareholders’ halcyon days – Interest.co.nz