‘Falling Tide’ Fred Leist, 1940s, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- Elon Musk swoops down on Twitter with $41 bln cash offer – Reuters
- Are Major Central Banks Doing Enough to Fight Inflation? – Project Syndicate
- UN warns of ‘great finance divide’ as COVID shocks, debt, hits poorest hardest – DW
- Three ways Chinese inflation is a global game-changer – Nikkei Asia
- IMF warns fintech firms are pushing banks into riskier mortgage lending. Could crypto be next? – MarketWatch
Americas
- US jobless claims rise but remain near a half-century low – AP
- Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals – Guardian
- How bad is the bond-market carnage? This unlikely sector is down 10% as inflation takes a bite out of returns. – MarketWatch
- WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID – The Atlantic
- What ‘higher and faster’ Bank of Canada rate hikes could mean for homeowners – Financial Post
- Canadians too anxious about the future to enjoy the vibrant present, say economists – CBC
Asia
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- India risks widespread blackouts this summer – Reuters, Kemp
- China’s March commodity imports were subdued, more softness ahead – Reuters, Russell
- China trade: unexpected fall in imports amid coronavirus, Ukraine war raises alarm for export machine – SCMP
- Sri Lanka debt default has begun, says rating agency – BBC
- China’s trade boom defies new Cold War – Asia Times
- Ukraine invasion: Biden urges Modi not to buy more Russian oil – DW
- Turkey holds key rate at 14% even with inflation at 61% – Nikkei Asia
- China, South Korea lift Russian energy imports, eroding sanctions – Nikkei Asia
- Foreign cash flees China as investors shun autocracies – Nikkei Asia
- After buying cheap Russian oil, India is now setting sights on its coal – CNBC
- Western powers should exploit Central Asia’s unease over Ukraine war – Nikkei Asia
Europe
- Private rents in Britain rose at record rate in past year, figures show – Guardian
- Sanctions by the numbers – gas – BNE Intellinews
- Stagflation looks a racing certainty as worse to come for UK households – Guardian
- The impact of the war on Ukraine’s poverty and society will be massive – BNE INtellinews
- What peace possible after Ukraine? – Asia Times
- Germany set for bumper pension hike amid inflation surge – DW
- Russian nickel, palladium, chromium exports a headache for Germany – DW
- A ban on Russian energy will hurt Europe more than it helps Ukraine – Nikkei Asia
- ECB confirms the end of its bond buying in the third quarter as inflation surges – CNBC
- Europe to see a sharp recession if Russia’s Putin shuts off the gas taps – CNBC
- House price inflation jumps to 7-year high of 15.3% – Irish Times
Terra Specufestor
- It’s more important to know the impact of your policies than to know economic figures off-hand – Guardian
- Will enough young people sign up to vote by Monday? – Ninefax…yeah, that choice between the most nauseating government in Australian history and the small target opposition – they’d be just itching to sign up to decide that wouldn’t they…
- Jobless rate falls to near 50-year-low, fuelling rates rise expectations – Ninefax
- Australia’s official unemployment rate predicted to fall below 4% as staff shortages bite – Guardian
- Why don’t politicians get that $46 a day isn’t enough to live on? – NInefax
- Scott Morrison effectively ditches promise to establish anti-corruption commission if re-elected – ABC
- Labor will never appease Murdoch, and should stop trying – Pearls and Irritations, Waterford
- Australia’s unemployment rate of 4 per cent is good news that should get even better by polling day – ABC
- With Morrison’s campaign on the offensive, can Albanese sharpen up after his bruising brain freeze? – ABC
- How elections could reset Australia-China relations – Asia Times
- Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a ‘3’. How do we keep it there? – The Conversation
- Renters spend 10 times as much on housing as petrol. Where’s their cost-of-living relief? – The Conversation
- Department of Veterans Affairs failing veterans, secretary admits – New Daily…her comments about labour hire were particularly damning…
- Scott Morrison lets rip on native forests in strange oblation to Tasmania’s logging companies – Michael West
…and furthermore…
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- Bird flu, Ukraine war push egg prices higher worldwide – Reuters
- Russian companies, global banks could reap windfall from depositary receipt delisting – Reuters
- ‘Essex Boys’ case of traders accused of manipulating markets heads for trial – Guardian
- Why Africa is home to the world’s ‘worst airports’ – DW
- Why it’s hard to repair a smartphone – DW
- What our negative comments and consumer gripes on social media reveal about us – The Conversation
- We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before – The Atlantic
- The Surprisingly Bulky Particle That Might … Break Physics? – Slate
- The Amazon Union Exposes the Emptiness of ‘Woke Capital’ – The Atlantic
- The death of the gas station – Vox
- Russian billionaire is behind mansion that housed Harry and Meghan, leaked files show – CBC