Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Capital Is No Longer Flowing Uphill – Council on Foreign Relations
- Finance 2.0: How We Will Build The Future of Finance – Fintech Summary
- Mammals shrink when Earth heats up – Mercury News
- Bonds pleased with Fed rate hike – Calafia Beach Pundit
- London gold rush – ICE to launch clearing before banks are ready – Reuters
- OPEC’s Rebalancing Act – IMF
Americas:
- Three Criteria for Health Reform – WSJ
- Wherever Trump goes, his gang of aides stays close by – Politico
- Fox News Poll: 34% of voters favor GOP health care plan – Fox News
- Can Paul Ryan pull this off, or is he headed for a brutal defeat? – Washington Post
- Corporate America is out of touch – Business Insider
- Trump Proposes Historic Cuts Across Government to Fund Defense – Bloomberg
- What’s getting cut in Trump’s budget – Washington Post
- The Lone Dissenter From the Fed’s Rate Move Is Worried About Inequality – Bloomberg
- The Make Inequality Worse Act of 2017 – Washington Post
- Understanding US productivity trends from the bottom-up – Brookings
- The Case for Countering Trumpism With ‘Left-Wing Economics’ – NY Mag
Europe:
- Dutch prime minister claims victory over anti-Muslim candidate Geert Wilders – Washington Post
- Dutch exit polls: Surprisingly poor showing for far-right Wilders – The Hill
- The Dutch election shows what will happen to the rest of Europe if mass migration is not addressed – The Telegraph
- Dutch Liberals Beat Wilders’s Party in Blow to Populist Wave – Bloomberg
- Russian spy ship returns off U.S. coast, near sub base – CBS News
- In Netherlands’ elections, a fight for the Dutch soul – CS Monitor
- Theresa May’s clampdown on international students is a mystery – FT
Asia:
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- Google, Facebook Build a Data Highway to Asia—Financed by a Chinese Developer – WSJ
- Token Dissent Plummets in China as Comrade Xi’s Power Grows – Bloomberg
- Super-easy monetary policy and reflating Japan’s economy – VOX
- China to Allow Onshore Bond Buying via Hong Kong This Year – Bloomberg
- After $225 Billion in Deals Last Year, China Reins In Overseas Investment – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find – NY Times
- Extreme heat pushes parts of Great Barrier Reef beyond recovery – ABC
- Year-on-year bleaching threatens Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status – The Conversation
- Emergency housing cheaper than homelessness: study – ABC
- Clarke & Dawe: ‘The Energy Market Explained’ feat. Wal Socket, Energy Consultant – YouTube
- Former Liberal MP Fiona Scott calls on Tony Abbott to quit Parliament – The SMH
- Tabcorp fined $45 million for breaching money laundering, terrorism financing laws – ABC
- The Next RBA Rate Increases Will Have Triple the Force of 90s Hikes – Bloomberg
- South Australia shows up the federal government … and rightwing commentary – The Guardian
- Government could slash gambling ads during TV sport to win critical crossbench votes – The Age
- Private health insurance CEOs warned they could be summoned by Senate over soaring premiums – ABC
- Australian kids behaving badly in classrooms, OECD report says – ABC
- NAB jacks up interest rates ‘We do not take these decisions lightly’ – News.com.au
- How the big three robbed us of our own gas – The SMH
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GDP falls far short of expectations – Interest.co.nz
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Bank lending growth versus economic growth – Interest.co.nz