Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Yellen Can’t Halt Trump Gold Rally That Hedge Funds Bet Against – Bloomberg
- Bill Gates calls for income tax on robots – FT
- About one-fifth of adults globally have no formal schooling – PEW Research
- A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America – Ox
- When the IMF evaluates the IMF – VOX
Americas:
- Republicans might stop sweating the debt – Axios
- How Can We Get Rid of Trump? – NY Times
- Texas Oil Fields Rebound From Price Lull, but Jobs Are Left Behind – NY Times
- Yes, Mr. President, Banks Are Lending – NY Times
- Trump Agenda Is Beset by Opposition on Many Fronts – WSJ
- A Worry on the Right That Trump’s Conservative Acts Are Fleeting – NY Times
- I’m a Democrat (and ex-CIA) but the spies plotting against Trump are out of control – Fox News
- Canadian PM’s trade agenda positions Canada as global dealmaker – xinhuanet.com
Europe:
- Oxford University set to break with 700 years of tradition and open a foreign campus – The Telegraph
- War Is the Climate Risk That Europe’s Leaders Are Talking About – Bloomberg
- Swedes Left Asking: What Happened in Sweden? – WSJ
- Swedes scratch heads at Trump’s suggestion of major incident – AP News
- Trump clarifies remarks on Sweden: I got it from Fox News story – The Hill
- EU Commission to warn Italy on Wed over rising debt – Reuters
- Schaeuble denies ’Grexit’ threat, says Greece on right path – Reuters
- Italy’s Renzi Quits as Party Leader, Triggers Re-Election Fight – Bloomberg
- Another Brexit downside: foreign giants in power grabs for famous British names – The Guardian
- Why some Tories fear blood on the streets in a couple of years – The Guardian
- Germany’s SPD moves ahead of Merkel’s party in poll – Reuters
Asia:
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- The Colors of Japanese Internment – New Yorker
- India Begins Building on Its Citizens’ Biometrics – WSJ
- Have you said bye-bye to Bao Bao? She’s about to fly the ‘Panda Express’ to China. – Washington Post
- U.S. deploys carrier to contentious South China Sea – USA Today
- China violated its own law to grant Trump a trademark – ThinkProgress
- China Message to Trump With North Korea Coal Ban: Let’s Deal – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Former Newman government ‘killed off’ profitable climate change company Ecofund – ABC
- Defence boss reveals consultants and contractors now outnumber public servants – Canberra Times
- Housing affordability: How did we get here, and do first-time buyers ever stand a chance? – ABC
- This is the new face of creeping underemployment – The New Daily
- ATO admits working hours inefficient after staff backlash over request to work nine more minutes – ABC
- New data highlights Amazon Australia threat – The SMH
- Images of new bleaching on Great Barrier Reef heighten fears of coral death – The Guardian
- Bill Shorten to push for Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution during historic Netanyahu visit – ABC
- More than 140,000 families cut off from childcare payments for not vaccinating their kids – 9News
- Big Liberal donor withholds $500,000 in dispute with Victorian party kingpin Michael Kroger – The Age
- Malcolm Turnbull’s back-to-parliament party cost Aussie taxpayers $5000 – Daily Telegraph
- Mining boom clean-up could cost taxpayers billions, says Australia Institute – The Guardian
- Josh Frydenberg flags changes to allow CEFC to invest in carbon capture and storage – ABC
- Mining industry tipped millions into pre-election clean coal campaign – The SMH
- WA election: Liberals, Labor focus on economy in week two as One Nation questions persist – ABC
- NSW Treasury senior executives rewarded while government cuts jobs elsewhere – The SMH
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Govt & councils in ‘gritty talks’ on housing infrastructure – Interest.co.nz
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