Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Effect of openness on domestic employment volatility – VOX
- WTO environmental trade talks fail – Reuters
- Can the Global Economy Survive a Stronger Dollar? – Macro & Other Musings
- Why a strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy – The Economist
- The interest rate effect on private saving – VOX
Americas:
- Obama administration fails to check immigrants against FBI databases, – Washington Post
- A pensions time bomb spells disaster for the US economy – Business Insider
- Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. ’Megaregions’ – National Geographic
- Why 2016 May Be the Year of ’Peak Housing’ for Canada – Bloomberg
- The Secret Lives of American Workers – The Atlantic
- Want to Rev Up the Economy? Don’t Worry About the Trade Deficit – NY Times
Europe:
- Italian prime minister resigns in populist revolt – Washington Post
- Italian PM to resign after referendum defeat – SKY
- European unemployment and labour market reforms: A two-handed approach – VOX
- Euro tumbles to 20-month low after Italy’s PM concedes defeat – Reuters
- Euro dives as Italy votes ’No’ on reform, shares slip – Reuters
- In Italy, a Sleeper Crisis for the E.U. – NY Times
- Greece must reform or leave eurozone, says German minister – The Guardian
- Greece needs reforms, not debt relief: Germany’s Schaeuble – Reuters
- Europe’s Populists Target Landmark Victories in Italy, Austria – Bloomberg
- Austria far-right candidate Norbert Hofer defeated in presidential poll – BBC
- Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack – Reuters
Asia:
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- Taiwan City Planning a Makeover Says a Trump Agent Showed Interest – NY Times
- Dispensing With Tip-Toeing, Trump Puts Taiwan in Play – WSJ
- Chinese policymakers closely watching capital flows, market changes: Finance minister official – Reuters
- Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved – Washington Post
- China’s brutally pragmatic response to a shifting world order – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Employers ‘short-changing’ Australian workers by withholding superannuation payments, report says – ABC
- Australia is blowing its carbon budget, projections reveal – The Guardian
- Myki fare hikes favour some users, punish others and increasingly encourage driving – The Age
- Carbon tax could be back under coalition plan – The Age
- What can Australia learn from Germany’s remarkable energy transition? – The Conversation
- ‘Menzies would be ashamed’ Andrew Leigh takes on Turnbull over unions, home ownership – The Age
- Malcolm Turnbull set to axe Tony Abbott’s Green Army environmental program – The SMH
- Abolishing Green Army would ‘hardly be a smart move’, Abbott says – ABC
- Philip Nitschke launches ‘militant’ campaign for unrestricted adult access to euthanasia – The Guardian
- Hospitals, housing and dental services ripe for privatisation, says Productivity Commission report – Brisbane Times
- Govt aims to claw back $4b in overpayments – SBS
- Country pubs revived as first-timers buy local pubs to keep towns alive – ABC
- Tony Abbott accuses Malcolm Turnbull of putting Greens first – The AFR
- Minister for Trade confirms UK Free Trade Agreement post Brexit – SciAustralia
- What’s your NBN Plan B? – The SMH
- Why is everyone talking about a carbon tax? The carbon pricing debate explained – ABC
- Tobacco smugglers get richer as cigarette prices rise – The Age
- ‘A national security risk’: Australian Border Force warns illegal tobacco trade may be fuelling terrorism – ABC
- Laurie Oakes: Little parties thinking big puts big boys to shame – Herald-Sun
- Big banks crank up home loan rates – The AFR
- UN expert says Australians (and their leaders) have big racism problem – Canberra Times
- The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check – The Conversation
- Adani protest: hundreds rally against proposed $1bn loan to mining company – The Guardian
- Townsville HQ for Adani’s Carmichael coal mine – ABC
- Government to meet energy bosses over looming gas shortage – ABC
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English to decide on PM bid on Tuesday – Interest.co.nz
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