Links 4th Feb 2014
Cross Posted from Macrobusiness.com.au
Global Macro / Markets:
- Bitcoin’s Emerging Price Stability- Tech Crunch
- Succession exposes risks for hedge funds – Financial Times
- Governments Can and Should Beat Bitcoin at Its Own Game – Slate
- Emerging markets risk repeating eurozone blunder of synchronised tightening – The Telegraph
North America:
- ISM Manufacturing index declines sharply in January to 51.3 due to “adverse weather conditions” – Calculated Risk
- US debt default ’by end of month’ – BBC
- The 10 worst states for taxes in 2014 – CNBC
- US struggles for saving grace in retirement – Business Spectator
Europe:
- Germany preparing third financial rescue for Greece – The Guardian
- Corruption across EU ’breathtaking’ – BBC
- Europe will feel the pain of emerging markets – Financial Times
Asia:
- China says no cover-ups using state secrecy as excuse – Reuters
- Cost of Bearish Chinese ETF Bets Surges as Growth Slows – Bloomberg
- Secretive China shocks environmentalists by making public its data on smog-filled air – Washington Post
- The $15 trillion shadow over Chinese banks – The Telegraph
- In China, ‘Once the Villages Are Gone, the Culture Is Gone’ – New York Times
- How Chinese market reform will change the world – Business Spectator
Local:
- New taskforce to break CSG logjam – The AFR
- Women push to close superannuation gap – The AFR
- Hockey faces pressure over US fed taper – The AFR
- Sydney vies for apartment king crown – The AFR
- Free the old from their housing gold – The AFR
- Shorten locks ALP to unions – The Australian
- ABC must correct errors: Turnbull – The Australian
- Hard man Hockey on right foot – The SMH
- Billions lost in taxes exposes hypocrisy over federal aid – The Guardian
Other:
- The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World – New York Times
- Investors Used to Worry About the End of the World—Why Did They Stop? – The Atlantic
- Building a Better Battery – New York Times
- Tax evasion and austerity-plan failure – VOX
- Governments in emerging markets face fuel subsidy dilemma – Financial Times
- Divorce rate cut in half for newlyweds who discussed five relationship movies – Science Daily
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