Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The next financial crisis will be worse than 2008, says legendary investor jim rogers – The Street
- Negative Interest Rates: A Tax in Sheep’s Clothing – StLouisFed
- The Next Global Boom—and Bust – piie.com
- Five factors to watch for gold – FT
- Oil slides second straight day as glut worries return – Reuters
Americas:
- Trump Has Won and the Republican Party Is Broken – NY Mag
- It’s Donald Trump’s Party Now – NY Times
- Pussy Riot on the danger posed by Donald Trump: We laughed when Putin came to power, too – The Independent
- The Mythology Of Trump’s ‘Working Class’ Support – FiveThirtyEight
- The crisis in the Republican Party is even worse than it looks – Business Insider
- GOP, Welcome Your New Trump Overlord – Daily Beast
- Clinton plots swing state ambush for Trump – Politico
- Trump anxiety spurs Latino voter registration – houstonchronicle.com
- Seven big banks settle U.S. rate-rigging lawsuit for $324 million – Reuters
- 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF – sfist.com
- The dividing line between haves and have-nots in home ownership: Education, not student debt – Brookings
- Brazil’s manufacturing PMI hits lowest in 7 years in April – brecorder.com
- Venezuela, That Sinking Feeling -Zero Hedge
Europe:
- Reinforcing the Eurozone and protecting an open society – VOX
- Completing the Eurozone banking union – VOX
- Spain gears up for repeat election on June 26 – Reuters
- Brexit: sovereignty is not the same as power – FT
- Italian court rules food theft ’not a crime’ if hungry – BBC
- French President Says Non to TTIP – Foreign Policy
- Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal – The Guardian
- Reinventing Europe – Project Syndicate
- Spain, France, Italy, Portugal to miss deficit, debt reduction targets: EU – Reuters
Asia:
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- China Said to Explore Taking Stakes in Some News Websites – Bloomberg
- The $571 Billion Debt Wall That Points to More Defaults in China – Bloomberg
- China’s Army Turns to Rap, Hip-Hop in Bid to Boost PLA Recruitment – NBC News
- India’s looming water wars can destroy everything, from “Make in India” to smart cities – Quartz
- Japan: The Way Out – alt-m.org
- China Rolls Up Welcome Mat – WSJ
- Kim Jong-un bans all weddings, funerals and freedom of movement in North Korea – The Independent
Trans-Tasman:
- WA ripped off in federal budget divvy up, Labor says – ABC News
- Backpacker tax still under consideration, Morrison says – ABC News
- CSIRO board did not sign off on job cuts, Federal Opposition says – ABC News
- Fears $4-per-hour internships could exploit workers – ABC News
- Gonski reforms need to be fully funded, NSW Education Minister says – ABC News
- Budget is gift for billionaires, ‘unfair at its heart’: Labor – ABC News
- Families, small business owners divided on Morrison’s budget plan – ABC News
- Victorian taxi review recommends $10 peak hour booking fee – ABC News
- Budget 2016: It’s a story with a few loose ends – ABC The Drum
- Guru Morrison and the budget that’s totally a plan – ABC The Drum
- The NBN is running out of money – Canberra Times
- Abbott’s lukewarm budget verdict – Canberra Times
- Buried in the budget – a $1.6b election war chest – Canberra Times
- $2 cigarettes ‘as expensive as marijuana’ – Canberra Times
- Economists doubt RBA’s war on inflation – The AFR
- Budget, RBA keeps property ‘ticking along’ – The AFR
- Vic govt projects lacking business cases – The Australian