Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Fed minutes attempt to recalibrate market’s rate expectations – FT
- Bring On the Currency War – Bloomberg
- China as a global investor – Brookings
- Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis – Project Syndicate
- Demand for oil storage soars amid supply glut – FT
Americas:
- R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party – Rolling Stone
- Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride – NY Times
- Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape – Politico
- Trump’s appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue – Washington Post
- Send in the clowns: US airports enlist entertainers to sooth irate passengers – The Telegraph
- In North Dakota’s oil patch, a humbling comedown – Reuters
- Study predicts modest economic boost for U.S. from Obama trade pact – Washington Post
- Most Fed Officials Saw June Hike Likely If Economy Warrants – Bloomberg
- Uproar in the Commons after Trudeau accused of getting ’physical’ with 2 MPs – CBC
- The ice finally begins to crack in Venezuela – FT
- Venezuela blocks anti-Maduro march in Caracas, tear gas fired – Reuters
Europe:
- Germany Changes Stance, Will Spend Almost €100 Billion To Assist Refugees – Zero Hedge
- Spain Dodges Budget Sanctions, Clearing Path to June Elections – Bloomberg
- Austria’s Election Is a Warning to the West – NY Times
- Germany Is Very, Very Tired – Bloomberg
- Leaving the EU: Implications for the UK economy – PWC
- U.K. Campaign to Stay in EU Has Widest Poll Lead in 3 Months – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Chinese Intercept U.S. Military Spy Plane Over South China Sea – NBC
- Pentagon: ’Unsafe’ intercept over South China Sea – CNN
- A few more thoughts on China’s economic credibility – AEI.org
- Chinese couple spend wedding night copying Communist constitution – The Guardian
- In Japan’s Slow Economy, Rare Price Rise Prompts Surplus of Remorse – NY Times
- China’s Communist Party goes way of Qing Dynasty as debt hits limit – The Telegraph
- China’s Challenges in a Modern World – Bloomberg
- Asia’s richest man quietly paid a visit to Barack Obama – Quartz
Trans-Tasman:
- The housing tax dodge that makes negative gearing look like small fry – News.com.au
- WestConnex: Audit office to examine federal funding for motorway – The SMH
- Northern Territory gas pipeline a ‘white elephant’: report – The SMH
- Growing Hopes Refugee Might Take Peter Dutton’s Job – SBS
- Election FactCheck: are many refugees illiterate and innumerate? – The Conversation
- Greens want to destroy the centre not occupy it – The AFR
- The real story about growth and why we don’t need to worry about bracket creep – Greg Jericho
- JB Hi-Fi mulls Good Guys buy-out as it seeks expanded whitegoods reach – ABC
- Wind and solar become new “base load” power for South Australia – Renew Economy
- Residents in Adelaide suburb invited to mass trial of new power-storage batteries – ABC News
- What kind of government better funds private schools than its own? – Canberra Times
- Tax cuts make up for Medicare freeze: Morrison – Canberra Times
- Many millennials won’t own a home – Domain
- Home is where the wealth is, not super – The Australian
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RBNZ needs to get the next housing move right – Interest.co.nz
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Wellington applies blowtorch to Auckland on Unitary Plan – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The inside story of when Run-DMC met Aerosmith and changed music forever – Washington Post