Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Who is Responsible for the Strong Dollar? And What can be Done? – EconFact
- ‘Beyond the extreme’: Scientists marvel at ‘increasingly non-natural’ Arctic warmth – Washington Post
- Petraeus: World order under ’unprecedented threat’ – The Hill
- Environmental economic history – VOX
- Don’t Bet on the Active Manager Revival – assetclasstrading.com
- Lesson of the century: most US stocks can’t even beat a T-bill – Bloomberg
- These Countries Are Struggling the Most to Support Their Retirees – Bloomberg
- Specter of global trade war rises as trump puts ‘america first’ – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Innovation and inventors during the rise of American ingenuity – VOX
- U.S. Factory Activity Accelerated to Fastest Pace in More Than Two Years – WSJ
- America’s New Resistance – New Republic
- GOP talk shifts from replacing ObamaCare to repairing it – The Hill
- Obamacare More Popular Than Ever, Now That It May Be Repealed – NY Times
- These words are coming back to haunt Peter Thiel, Trump’s man in Silicon Valley – Washington Post
- One thing red state voters don’t like about Obamacare is that it sucks – Medium
- The Simple Trick to Getting People to Support Refugees, Immigrants, and Obamacare – The Atlantic
- Refugees are already vigorously vetted. I know because I vetted them. – Washington Post
- Parsing the Fed: How the February Statement Changed from December – WSJ
- Democrats are becoming the party of secession – NY Post
- The U.S.-Mexico relationship is dangerously on the edge – Washington Post
- An explosive report on Trump’s talks with Peña Nieto shows how fragile US-Mexico ties are now – Quartz
Europe:
- Migrants make return to Calais in new hope of making it to UK – The Local
- Romanians rally in biggest anti-corruption protest in decades – Reuters
- Germany, the Euro, and Currency Manipulation – NY Times
- Voting on the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2016 – Medium
- Foreigners buy assets in Greece, as Greeks are forced to sell, Vangelis Mandravelis – ekathimerini.com
- Opposition turns fire on gov’t over migrant crisis – ekathimerini.com
- Greece’s Deadlocked Debt Talks Unnerve Investors – WSJ
- Theresa May is trapped between Brexit and Donald Trump’s America – Fortune
- EU will lose out from bad Brexit deal on City, says leaked report – The Guardian
- Trump is right: Germany is running an illegal currency racket – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- Trump Aide’s Deal With Chinese Firm Raises Fear of Tangled Interests – CNBC
- Trump Aide’s Deal With Chinese Firm Raises Fear of Tangled Interests – NY Times
- No ‘G’day, mate’: On call with Australian prime minister, Trump badgers and brags – Washington Post
- China sends a chilling message to companies in Hong Kong – FT
- There Are Echoes of China in Today’s America – Time
- Japan’s robot chefs aim to show how far automation can go – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Donald Trump tweets he will study ’dumb’ refugee deal with Australia – The Age
- The reporter whose sensational story dropped a political bombshell 16,000 kilometres away from Washington – The Age
- Donald Trump teaches Malcolm Turnbull a lesson in not playing nice – ABC
- Uhlmann: ABC has confirmed with Australian sources that the Washington Post report is “substantially accurate” – Twitter
- Liberal Donor Insists He Has No Influence On Party Policy – The Shovel
- Centrelink scandal: Labor says digital agency ‘missing in action’ over debt system – The Guardian
- Electricity prices could double with new coal-fired stations, energy experts say – ABC
- Clean energy subsidies could be used to build new coal power plants, Scott Morrison says – ABC
- How Malcolm Turnbull could ignore the facts and fund the myth of ‘clean’ coal – The Guardian
- Corporate corruption and government failure to act: who’s running this country? – The Guardian
- Eric Abetz urges Government to ‘show leadership’ and cut 4,000 public service jobs – ABC
- New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push for Citizenship – NY Times
- Morrison says Labor ‘smearing’ the PM – SBS
- Gladys Berejiklian’s bizarre decision: Premier’s housing focus is off to a bad start – The SMH
- ‘Peak car’: Australia’s love affair with ownership fades with rise of car-sharing services – The Guardian
- Educating Australia – why our schools aren’t improving – ABC
- Call for rethink on working week, study warns of health risks – ABC
- Unemployment major contributor to veteran suicide rates, Senate inquiry hears – ABC
- Gap between rich and poor continues in Western Australia post-mining boom – ABC
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Going around the houses – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The high-tech war on science fraud – The Guardian