Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- UBS chairman: Climate change occurring at ‘astonishing’ speed – Yahoo
- Wall Street’s Latest Love Affair With Risky Repackaged Debt – NY Times
- These Are the Major Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Securities – Learn Bonds
- Recession Signals Flashed by The Bond Market May Have Been Exaggerated – Stock Market News
- The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt – NY Times
Americas:
- Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family – New Yorker
- How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich – NY Times
- Argentina Restricts Access to Foreign Currency to Stave Off Financial Crisis – NY Times
- Argentina’s beleaguered government imposes capital controls – The Economist
- Uber and Lyft face an existential threat in California — and they’re losing – The Verge
- Trump is raising your taxes today – Yahoo
- Record Number of Americans Working: 157 Million on the Job in the U.S. – Breitbart
Europe:
- Norwegian Air asks for more time to pay off bonds – Reuters
- Russia Claims Baltic States Never Turned Democratic – Poly Graph
- Schools in France to display flags in classrooms – BBC
- With a $2 Billion Factory From China, a German City Lets Others Worry – NY Times
- Mogherini: If Balkans don’t join EU, we’ll regret it in few years – RS
Asia:
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- China’s ‘Belt and Road’ risks Paris climate goals – Yuv News
- Global oil games: India playing a shrewd hand – Yuv News
- The Real “Helicopter Money”: Since 2009, China Has Created $21 Trillion Of New Money, More Than Double The US – Zero Hedge
- Philippines: Budget Hearings to Continue Despite Recall of 2020 Budget Bill – Phil Star
- China Plans More Support for Economy – Reuters
- Amid Crisis, China Rejected Hong Kong Plan to Appease Protesters – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison concedes he ordered release of Sri Lankan boat arrivals to keep ‘threat’ alive – New Daily
- Australian Medical Association declares climate change a health emergency – The Guardian
- ‘Can’t rely on governments alone’: Atlassian leads push for staff to attend global climate strike – The SMH
- Scomo’s mate’s mate and the billion-dollar privatisation of Australia’s visa system – Michael West
- Where has the ALP gone when Hong Kong needs it most? – ABC
- ‘Precisely what you’d expect in an economic downturn’: Retail sales tumble despite tax cuts – The SMH
- Scott Morrison’s ‘improving’ economy is on the never-never – The Guardian
- Australian tax office loses $92m case against mining group Glencore – The Guardian
- Late surge from undecided and minor party voters to Coalition swung election, study says – The Guardian
- Medibank accused by ACCC of rejecting surgery claims to members who were covered – The SMH
- Economy facing toughest time since tech-wreck downturn – The SMH
- Nine Entertainment hosts $10,000 a head fundraiser for Liberal party – The Guardian
- Is manufacturing about to spit the dummy and does it matter? – Interest.co.nz
- First signs of spring lift in the property market? – Interest.co.nz