Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Defending globalisation: Isolation would cost us dearly – VOX
- The Uselessness of Economic Development Incentives – City Lab
- The World’s Third-Largest Oil Producer Keep OPEC Talks at a Standstill – Bloomberg
- Faith in OPEC Deal Turns Options Traders Into Oil Bulls – WSJ
- Treasuries Having Worst Month Since 2009 on Trump Ripple Effect – Bloomberg
- The End of the Anglo-American Order – NY Times
- Dollar Heads for Biggest Monthly Advance Against Yen Since 2009 – Bloomberg
- Is Our Economic Future Behind Us? – Project Syndicate
Americas:
- U.S. Economic Confidence Highest in Nine Years – Gallup
- Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos – New Yorker
- Trump vs. the Constitution – NY Times
- Trump’s Challenge to American Democracy – New Yorker
- FBI may have been investigating Trump when Comey announced new Clinton emails – Vice
- Trump’s Potential Treasury Secretary Headed A ’Foreclosure Machine’ – NPR
- Decades in the Making: Fidel Castro’s Obituary – NY Times
- Auto Loans Get Even Dicier – WSJ
- Donald Trump and Wall Street Make Up Quickly – WSJ
- After Democrats’ Losses, Nancy Pelosi Becomes a Symbol of What Went Wrong – NY Times
- Trump’s Showdown With Manufacturer Exposes Obama’s Weakness on Outsourcing – The Intercept
- Trump to reveal deal to keep nearly 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indiana – CNBC
- A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change – NY Times
- Workers Put The Minimum Wage Back In The Spotlight – FiveThirtyEight
Europe:
- German intelligence officer ’arrested over Islamist plot’ raising fears the spy agency has been infilitrated – The Telegraph
- Italy: The Next Stop on Populism’s Global March – WSJ
- Belgium and the Netherlands Swap Land, and Remain Friends – NY Times
- Europe Warned It’s on Edge of Abyss Unless Brexit Lessons Heeded – Bloomberg
- Germans want Merkel to take tough line with UK over Brexit, poll finds – The Guardian
- Putin brings China’s Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China Tightens Controls on Overseas Use of Its Currency – NY Times
- Millions of Japanese Over 35 Still Live With Mom and Dad – Bloomberg
- China central bank rejects media report that some mortgage lending suspended – Reuters
- China Looks to Loosen Job Security Law in Face of Slowing Economic Growth – WSJ
- S. Korean leader offers conditional resignation amid scandal – AP
- Southeast Asia Currency Slide Inflates $20 Billion Debt Bill – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Great Barrier Reef: Australia’s ‘response plan’ draft contains no new action or funding – The Guardian
- The ‘war on drugs’ has failed, and Australia must change its policies – The Age
- Basic income: a radical idea enters the mainstream of Australia – Apo
- Penalty rate cuts would boost retailer profits rather than jobs, study suggests – The Guardian
- Leaked cabinet papers warn secret visa overhaul would create ‘two-tier society’, increase violent extremism – The Age
- Coalition’s secret visa plan ‘risks increasing violent extremism’ – The Guardian
- Australian students now behind Kazakhstan in maths and science rankings – The Age
- Question time suspended after mass protest shuts down House of Representatives – The SMH
- WA Government to sell 51 per cent of Western Power, hopes to raise $11 billion (if re-elected) – ABC
- ‘Is the UK’s push to a full fibre network another indictment of our NBN technology?’ – News.com.au
- Holden winds up engine production ahead of 2017 manufacturing end – Car Advice
- China isn’t Australia’s biggest trade problem: it’s the US – The SMH
- Senate snubs government deal on backpacker tax in surprise Turnbull government defeat – The SMH
- Scott Morrison defends negative gearing after criticism from Mike Baird – The Guardian
- Australian economy faces 2017 challenge with mining bust a long way from over – ABC
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RBNZ eyes NZ$40 bln bank funding challenge – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- In today’s world, the truth is losing – Washington Post