Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hedge funds keep powder dry over big Brexit bets – FT
- Why General Electric is localising production – VOX
- Panama Papers and bank secrecy: Impact of blacklisting – VOX
- The world’s least developed countries are also the ones hosting the most refugees – Quartz
- Global migrant tide swells to record 65 million – Yahoo
- The Secret To The Incredible Wealth Of Bill Gates – Huffington Post
- Saudi Crude Exports Fall to 6-Month Low as Refineries Cut Back – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The Trump Campaign Raised Less Money in May Than the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter – Slate
- Clinton burying Trump: $42 million to $1.3 million – CNN
- Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit – NY Times
- New anti-Trump movement grows to include hundreds of GOP delegates – Washington Post
- The Media Is Finally Calling Out Trump’s Toxic Demagoguery – Rolling Stone
- How American Politics Went Insane – The Atlantic
- Krugman: A Tale of Two Parties – NY Times
- Orlando changed nothing: The Senate just voted down four gun control measures – Quartz
- Senate rejects all gun bills – Politico
- As Low-Skilled Jobs Disappear, Men Drop Out of the Workforce – WSJ
- Did bullet train officials ignore warning about need for taxpayer money? – LA Times
Europe:
- Some thoughts about Brexit – Perspectives on Monetary Policy
- Brexit in seven charts — the economic impact – FT
- Economic chiefs warn of Brexit risk in “unprecedented” joint statement – Public Finance UK
- Brexit and EU power distribution – VOX
- Economic Myth Vs Reality Ahead Of EU Vote – Sky
- Britain and Europe’s Fate – WSJ
- Why Ireland is so fearful of our closest neighbour leaving the EU – The Guardian
- Refugees in Greece need internet so badly that they’ll stop a riot to let the wifi guys work – Quartz
Asia:
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- China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips – Computer World
- After China fraud boom, Nasdaq steps up scrutiny of shady listings – MarketWatch
- 30 giant Chinese infrastructure projects that are reshaping the world – Business Insider
- In a World of Below-Zero Bond Yields, China Debt Bucks the Trend – Bloomberg
- China’s ‘Land Kings’ Return as Housing Prices Rise – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian ’bitcoin founder’ quietly bidding for patent empire – Reuters
- Fact check: Has Australia’s internet speed dropped from 30th to 60th in the world under the Coalition? – ABC
- Fact check: Turnbull misleads Q&A audience on NBN – Delimiter
- Bill Shorten Is Right: Malcolm Turnbull Is A Major Threat To Medicare – New Matilda
- Vote Compass: Majority of Australians want faster NBN, even if it costs more – ABC
- $110 for 15GB: Regional Australians struggle with poor internet access – ABC
- Can We Talk? Headspace CEO leaves in frustration as Turnbull government dismantles vital mental health initiative – Daily Telegraph
- Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health – The Conversation
- “What do real tradies think of ‘fake tradie’?” – ABC The Drum
- 7-Eleven store cops record penalty for exploitation of workers – The Age
- You’ve been told Labor can’t win – but they can. The evidence was there all along – The SMH
- Push to call obesity a disease – SBS
- Foreign farmland ownership poll finds almost nine out of 10 Australians opposed – ABC
- Election 2016: Majority of voters concerned about privatisation of Medicare – poll – SBS
- Scott Morrison seizes on report examining Labor’s negative gearing policy – The Guardian
- Sustainable Australia Party’s 2UE interview – 2UE
- Treasury says inflated Auckland house prices a risk to the economy – Interest.co.nz