Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Revisiting the paradox of capital – VOX
- ‘Superstar Firms’ May Have Shrunk Workers’ Share of Income – NY Times
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – timeshighereducation.com
- Peter Thiel talks fracking and globalization – Axios
- How Long Will This Bull Market Last? – The Irrelevant Investor
- Trade, Trade Deficits, Secular Stagnation, and a Good Use for Excess Savings – On the Economy
- How to Beat the Robots – NY Times
- Pimco revamps BOND ETF, changing fund’s name and managers – Reuters
- Bitcoin Still Isn’t Sustainable – Vice
- Markets’ latest distortion: riskless company debt – Breaking Views
Americas:
- Trumpism is now getting exposed as a monumental fraud – Washington Post
- White House: Don’t call it Trumpcare – Politico
- Republicans Give Rich Investors a Tax Break in Obamacare Revamp – Bloomberg
- Opposition mounts as GOP’s health bill undergoes review – WSJ
- Ryan disappoints his friends with Obamacare replacement bill – Politico
- The Great Green Wall of America – Politico
- Good news for Donald Trump: Your poll numbers are now better than Hillary Clinton’s – Washington Post
- Widening Brazilian probes uncover staggering level of corruption – WSJ
Europe:
- European Commission confirms new Priips rules – FT Adviser
- U.K. Economy Bucks Brexit, But Don’t Tell the Pound – WSJ
- Unbuilt Moscow: the ’new Soviet’ city that never was – The Guardian
- The whole Spring Budget is based on immigration remaining high after Brexit – Business Insider
- The “Dutch Trump” Is Even More Toxic Than the Real Thing – The Intercept
- Germany’s Misunderstood Trade Surplus – Project Syndicate
- Germany’s SPD closing the gap on Merkel’s CDU in latest election poll – Forex live
Asia:
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- China OKs 38 Trump Trademarks; Critics Say It Violates Emoluments Clause – NPR
- China gives Trump preliminary approval for 38 new trademarks – The Hill
- US and North Korea on collision course, says China – FT
- North Korea Could Soon Launch Attack on Hawaii – Free Beacon
- Beijing toughens its Internet stance. – WSJ
- As North Korea missile threat grows, Japan lawmakers argue for first strike options – Yahoo
- China warns Trump he is facing a ’head-on collision’ with North Korea – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘I was wrong’: Pauline Hanson apologises for controversial vaccine allergy remarks – The SMH
- Wholesale power prices have doubled since the carbon tax was axed – Canberra Times
- Debt Collectors Earn A Commission On Every Centrelink Debt They Collect – BuzzFeed
- Australia’s original climate body, The Climate Institute, to shut after running out of funding – The Age
- Sackings and bitter infighting hit Pauline Hanson’s One Nation WA campaign – Canberra Times
- Minister whacks Centrelink debt detractors – Yahoo
- Labor’s Kate Ellis set to retire at next Federal Election – Adelaide Now
- The Edward Snowden effect? Millennial view on data a concern for government and business – ABC
- ‘Clean’ coal won’t be commercially viable before 2030, energy analysis says – The Guardian
- Super funds balances ‘rapidly eroded’ by ‘too much’ life insurance due to multiple accounts – ABC
- Five-yearly environment stocktake highlights conflict between economy and nature – Renew Economy
- Bill Shorten: ”The bills go up so why is our wage going down?’ – The Age
- Wealth Divide Spurs Rise of Trump-Style Populism in Australia – Bloomberg
- The risk is greater than the GFC if we can’t fix the housing crisis – The SMH
- Gas supply shortage will threaten nation’s power supplies, AEMO forecasts – ABC
- Super-sized US homeland security department broke down silos, says Peter Dutton – The Age
- Sydney light rail: Premier accused of misleading public over $549m costs blowout – ABC
- ‘Bring in poll tax for immigrants’ – Interest.co.nz