Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil at $40 No Problem as U.S. Drillers Snub OPEC With Hedges – Bloomberg
- Untested Robo-Advisers Are Becoming a Big Market Risk – Bloomberg
- Bill Gates wants to give the poor chickens. What they need is cash. – VOX
- Is A Lack Of Volatility A Sign Of Complacency? – IP Research
- Maintaining the Positive Momentum of the Global Economy – IMF
- Digital Currencies Go Crazy After SEC Bitcoin Ruling – Fortune
Americas:
- MSNBC’s Leaked Tax Records Non-Story: Trump Made $150 Million, Paid 25% Tax Rate, More Than Romney, Bernie – Zero Hedge
- Trump Paid $38 Million Tax on $150 Million Income: White House – Bloomberg
- Donald Trump’s Taxes: What We Know and Don’t Know – NY Times
- Trump loyalists sound alarm over ‘RyanCare,’ endangering health bill – Washington Post
- James Donovan Is Latest Goldman Sachs Executive to Join Trump Administration – NY Times
- Trump to Drop Climate Change From Environmental Reviews, Source Says – Bloomberg
- Balance Of Student Loans In Default Soars To Over $137 Billion – Zero Hedge
- How ’Big Data’ broke American politics – NBC
- U.S. hate crimes up 20 percent in 2016, fueled by election campaign: report – NBC
- This one chart shows how far behind the US lags in healthcare – WEF
- US president helps fuel surge in Mexican tourism to Canada – AP
Europe:
- Dutch election polls LIVE: Updates as Geert Wilders takes on Mark Rutte in Netherlands – Express
- Moscow moves to absorb rebel Georgian region’s military – Reuters
- Bank of England Official Resigns After Critical Parliament Report – NY Times
- UK company develops edible drones to feed hungry – FT
- Theresa May expected to tour UK in effort to forge Brexit consensus – The Guardian
- Expenses scandal: Tory MPs blast party officials – Sky
- Ireland cries foul over competition for Brexit moves – Reuters
Asia:
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- Richard Solomon, Kissinger aide involved in ‘Ping-Pong diplomacy’ with China, dies at 79 – Washington Post
- The Real Exchange Rate and China’s Savings – Douglas Campbell
- South Korea Hedge Fund Inspired by Elliott Eyes Chaebol Cash – Bloomberg
- The great Chinese inequality turnaround – VOX
- A Mountain of Bad Debt Looms Over Modi – Bloomberg
- China Is High on List of U.S. Problems, Trump Trade Pick Says – Bloomberg
- Chinese provinces fizz with fervor for Xi’s New Silk Road – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia should consider adopting four day working week – Di Natale – ABC
- The Australian is howling offence. But calling Bill Leak a racist is ‘free speech’ too | David Marr – The Guardian
- From kerbside yellow bins to the recycling plant: What happens to your rubbish? – ABC
- Coopers brewery gay marriage back-down a ‘craven capitulation’: MP Andrew Hastie – The Age
- Battery storage to be “standard” in new-build houses within years – One Step off the Grid
- China’s approach to its housing boom makes Australia look soft – The AFR
- Charity status: Do wealthy private schools and hospitals deserve exemption from paying income tax? – ABC
- Should we be allowed to use superannuation on house deposits? – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull blames state governments for gas crisis, promises national leadership – The SMH
- The solution to Australia’s gas crisis is not more gas – The Conversation
- The Government Is Too Busy Lining Its Pockets To Fix The Housing Crisis – Huffington Post
- Australian students slipping behind in maths and science, new reports find – ABC
- Japanese government taps more benefit from Australian gas than us – The SMH
- Australia has the capacity to ride the wave, should a financial crisis make its way to our shores – ABC
- Up to 1,000 workers stood down at Inpex $36b gas project – ABC
- An inconvenient truth gets in the way of the company tax cut chants – Pascoe – The SMH
- Green and clean or dirty and polluted: What Melbourne could look like in 2040 – The Age
- Not everyone wins from the bank of mum and dad – ABC
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Auckland to lead NZ jobs growth as Christchurch wanes – Interest.co.nz
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An inter-generational rates debate? – Interest.co.nz