Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Decline of the Dad Job – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard Life in $13.5 billion merger talks – WSJ
- Give Karl Marx a Chance to Save the World Economy: George Magnus – Bloomberg
- Libor revealed dark underbelly of trading – Reuters
- Trump to Undo Vehicle Rules That Curb Global Warming – NY Times
- Bank Of America Calls The Top Of The Stock Market – Value Walk
- Rethinking Productivity Growth – Project Syndicate
- Is Wall Street Responsible for Our Economic Problems? – New Yorker
- Gold 2.0 (Bitcoin) Price Now Higher Than Gold 1.0 (Gold) – WSJ
- What Booming Markets Are Telling Us About the Global Economy – NY Times
- Who will lose when globalisation retreats? – The Economist
- Economists May Be Underestimating How Fast the Robots Are Coming – The Economist
Americas:
- If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It’s Not Obama Who Should Worry – Wired
- Trump faces growing furor over his claims Obama wiretapped him in October – WSJ
- The president accused Obama of ‘McCarthyism.’ But Trump’s mentor helped enforce it. – Washington Post
- Trump’s Safe and Sane ’Regulatory Reform’ Idea – Bloomberg
- The Madness of King Donald – New Republic
- American cocaine use is way up. Colombia’s coca boom might be why. – Washington Post
- Politics Is Ruining Millennials’ Love Lives – The American Interest
- Trump has set the US up to botch a global health crisis – VOX
- Trickle-down economics just took another big hit in Kansas – Mother Jones
- How the ‘Trump Slump’ is ruining America’s most successful export – MarketWatch
- The disturbing new facts about American capitalism – WSJ
- Using tourism to teach Mexicans about corruption – The Economist
- Venezuela is down to its last $10 billion – CNN Money
Europe:
- Decades-old mass grave of children of unwed mothers confirmed in Ireland – Washington Post
- Can America’s Spies Work With Russia’s? – The Atlantic
- Illegal gambling sites to be blocked in Switzerland – Swiss Info
- Fox News Caught Lying: Sweden Reinstated Draft Because Of Russia, Not Refugees – Media Matters
- Paul Wolfowitz on Russian Interference: ’The American People Need To Know the Truth’ – Der Spiegel
- ’UK not obliged’ to pay £50bn Brexit divorce bill – Sky
- Austria To Stop Giving Food, Shelter To Rejected Asylum Seekers – ZeroHedge
- The obstacles facing Northern Ireland – Sky
- Hard Brexit is making the case for Scottish independence – The Guardian
- France’s Le Pen loses ground in poll after state employee comments – Reuters
- No debt relief for Greece, says German deputy finance minister Jens Spahn – The Independent
Asia:
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- Asia’s promise gives way to its growing list of troubles – WSJ
- Tesla’s Sudden Chinese Billion, Where Are The Cars Behind It? – Forbes
- Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles – NY Times
- Japan worker shortage has only one winner so far: robots – FT
- China to boost defence spending by ‘about 7 per cent’ – FT
- Japan returns to inflation for first time since 2015 – FT
- Wealth of China’s richest 200 lawmakers tops $500bn – FT
- China’s Richest Win, Mexican Billionaires Lose With Trump Effect – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Penalty rates: real-life stories don’t stick to treasurer’s script – The Guardian
- Fiona the Unemployed Bettong v. Centrelink’s Tudgesquad – The Guardian
- First home buyers: Stamp duty cuts for houses worth up to $600,000 – The Age
- Pauline Hanson says George Christensen should stay with Coalition to stabilise Government – ABC
- WA Election 2017: Mark McGowan and Labor set to sweep into power, says Galaxy poll – Perth Now
- Childcare workers to strike on Wednesday over low pay – The SMH
- How Centrelink’s ‘robodebt’ ran off the rails – ABC
- Charting the war on young people: A suite of policy settings, from wage cuts to unaffordable education, shows the government turning its back on a generation – The Saturday Paper
- SA power infrastructure repairs begin after fires at Adelaide’s Torrens Island Power Station – ABC
- Just one $2000 fine issued since tough new plain packaging laws introduced – The Age
- ‘The carnage could be terrifying’: How Liberal MP John Alexander became a champion of housing affordability – The Age
- Foreign buyers of residential property in WA will be hit with a 4 per cent surcharge on property taxes if Labor wins next month’s State election – Perth Now
- Country towns will start to empty out with the rise of Australia’s super cities – News.com.au
- Hanson company tax support not guaranteed – The Australian
- Treasurer rejects migrant cuts – The Australian
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A Singapore-style ‘city housing’ solution? – Interest.co.nz
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The RBNZ should have a DTI tool & be prepared to use it – Interest.co.nz
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Auckland housing supply to get worse before better – Interest.co.nz
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