Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Missing the Economic Big Picture – Project Syndicate
- Debating What’s Wrong With Macroeconomics – Bloomberg
- ’Basel Is on Life Support’ in Trump Era – nationalmortgagenews
- Is OPEC Playing The Oil Markets Again? – Oil Price
- OPEC makes last-ditch bid to save oil deal as tensions grow – Reuters
- How Iran, Russia Could Derail Oil-Production Deal – WSJ
- The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization – Medium
Americas:
- It turns out we should have taken Trump literally as well as seriously – VOX
- War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Trump Won In A Landslide. – FiveThirtyEight
- Potential Trump pick for Homeland Security wants to send up to 1 million people to Gitmo – Mother Jones
- Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America – Slate
- The New Rules for Covering Trump – Politico
- Equality may have helped Trump win – VOX
- How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump – The Atlantic
- The truth about trade agreements – and why we need them – VOX
- Annoyed Dems dismiss recount as ‘waste of time’ – The Hill
- Trump’s foreign business interests: 144 companies in 25 countries – CNN
- It’s another milestone with flight from Miami to Havana – Miami Herald
- Venezuela currency tanks 60 percent in month on black market – Reuters
Europe:
- Trump wants different relationship with Russia – MSNBC
- The European elite have developed a death wish – The Guardian
- Tallest Skyscraper Planned for City of London Wins Approval – Bloomberg
- Brexiteers worst nightmare: unraveling Europe – Politico
- Brexit EU trade deals ’should not cherry pick’ different sectors – BBC
Asia:
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- China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything – WSJ
- Apple killing it in India: grabs first place with 66% of premium phone – Apple Insider
- Could UK’s Italians rock referendum vote? – BBC
- China’s Dual Equilibria – Council on Foreign Relations
- China Eyes Yuan Outflows in Battle Against Sinking Currency – Caixin Online
- Microsoft’s Chinese chatbot won’t talk about Tiananmen or Xi Jinping – CNN Money
- China approves $36-billion railway plan for Jing-Jin-Ji megacity – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens want Joe Hockey recalled from US to answer questions on Bell Group – The Guardian
- Australian jobseekers report bullying and work for the dole safety fears – The Guardian
- Parliament’s lawns to be sealed off from the people under sweeping security overhaul – The SMH
- Australia Names First Ever Female Chief Justice Of The High Court – BuzzFeed
- Doctor discovers scurvy resurgence at Sydney hospital due to poor dietary habits – ABC
- Taxi drivers furious over Uber $10 fare discount deal with ACT Government – ABC
- Great Barrier Reef suffered worst bleaching on record in 2016, report finds – BBC
- Apple Pay: ACCC denies big banks collective bargaining – ABC
- Family day care rort earned $260,000 in two days – The SMH
- Interest rate rises needed to cool hot housing market: OECD – ABC
- CSIRO sells concentrated solar power technology to China – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull deflects reshuffle talk amid concerns over Defence jobs, and George Brandis – The Age
- Telstra failing to plug earnings hole with poor investments – The SMH
- Tyranny of proximity replaces tyranny of distance on infrastructure, says Tim Pallas – The AFR
- Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds – The Conversation
- Feeding the beast: Billion-dollar burnouts keep emissions rising – The Monthly
- Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument – The Conversation
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‘Protectionism is a recipe for perpetuating poverty’ – Interest.co.nz