Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Can governments offset helicopter money – Mainly Macro
- Craig Wright U-turns on pledge to provide evidence he invented bitcoin – The Guardian
- The Somewhat Overlooked Coal Bubble – fortunefinancialadvisors.com
- Party’s Over – High Yield Bond ETF Crushed By Largest Outflows Ever – Zero Hedge
- A Cartel and a Briefcase: How Drug Cash Moves on a River of Gold – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump Was a Spark, Not the Fire – WSJ
- Ryan: ’I’m just not ready’ to back Trump – CNN
- First on CNN: Rick Perry endorses Donald Trump for president – CNN
- How Ryan decided to ditch Trump – Politico
- The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost – NY Times
- Hillary forces target Bush donors – Politico
- Americans’ Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking – FiveThirtyEight
- Tensions Rise Over Republican VP Options – WSJ
- Panama Papers: US launches crackdown on international tax evasion – The Guardian
- US job cuts rise to 65,141 in April; 2016 layoffs at 7-year high: Challenger – CNBC
- Fannie Mae CEO: Private capital unwilling to step into mortgages – Housing Wire
- Why America Can’t Quit the Drug War – Rolling Stone
- Consumption of propaganda in Venezuela – VOX
- Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation. – VOX
- Fitch Ratings downgrades Brazil further into junk – Reuters
Europe:
- What Brexit surveys really tell us – VOX
- Donald Trump backs Brexit, saying UK would be ’better off’ without EU – The Guardian
- EU exit would make UK ’less attractive’ to investors, says Japan’s PM – BBC
- Do British housing markets suffer from market failure? – The Economist
- Most EU citizens in UK would not meet work visa rules, data show – FT
- Greek parliament to vote on tax, pension reforms before Eurogroup meeting – Reuters
- Brexit Uncertainty Drags U.K. Economy to Near Stagnation – Bloomberg
- Europe’s newest vigilante group lands in the U.S. – vocativ.com
Asia:
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- India is considering fines and prison time for people who make maps with the “wrong” borders – Quartz
- Chinese Business Feels the Sting of the Party – Bloomberg
- India Rejects Apple’s Plan to Import Used iPhones – voanews.com
- Japan electric car fact of the day – Marginal Revolution
- India’s bad loan problem is the worst in all of Asia – Quartz
- China’s Great Commodity Bubble Loses Air Before It Can Burst – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
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Clear the decks, it’s time for a federal election – Canberra Times
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The APS jobs that everyone else wants – Canberra Times
- Turnbull is the ‘zombie Abbott’ – Canberra Times
- Shadowing a shadow of Turnbull’s former self – Canberra Times
- Second interest rate cut on the cards – Canberra Times
- TAFEs warning over ‘random’ Labor $8k fee cap – Canberra Times
- Report recommending carbon price held back – Canberra Times
- Coveted suburbs biggest tax winners – The Age
- ScoMo has no cunning plan – The Age
- Poll spells bad news for Turnbull – The Australian
- Turnbull missed voters: Bowen – The Australian
- The Budget’s 11 silliest measures – The Australian
- Nothing-to-lose Labor cuts loose – The AFR
- It’s lonely out there for banks – The AFR
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