Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Rules of the monetary game – VOX
- How the Gig Economy Could Save Capitalism – Time
- Foreign selling of U.S. Treasuries in April was most since 1978 -data – Reuters
- Slow down high-speed traders: Our view – USA Today
- Global Safe Yields Continue Their Downward March – Macro & Other Musings
- Big investors are yanking their money out of hedge funds – Business Insider
- Soc Gen Warns Of Stock Market crash – Value Walk
- World Isn’t Ready for Another Fed Increase – WSJ
Americas:
- Trump’s relationship with RNC sours – RNC
- Stop Blaming the Media for Trump – The Atlantic
- Favorability of Trump’s GOP Lowest in Bloomberg Poll’s History – Bloomberg
- Trump tells GOP leaders to ’get tougher’ – Politico
- 9-in-10 on terror watch list who sought guns were approved in 2015 – CNN
- What Does the Military Think of Trump? – Time
- On Donald Trump, Republicans Keep Distance in Different Ways – NY Times
- All the New Polls Tell the Same Story: Trump Is in Trouble – Slate
- Gauging Americans’ views on Orlando mass shooting – CBS News
- In Most Of America, Gun Stores Outnumber Coffee Shops – Fast Code Design
- What Big Food Doesn’t Want You To Know – New Republic
- American growth and inequality since 1700 – VOX
- Economic Survey of Canada 2016 – OECD
Europe:
- What it looked like when Iran’s all-male delegation faced an all-female EU team in Oslo – Quartz
- Osborne’s ’punishment Budget’ is economic vandalism – The Telegraph
- Europe’s Securitization Bankers Say They’re Stifled by New Rules – Bloomberg
- Bank of England pumps $3.5 billion in cash to lenders before Brexit vote – MarketWatch
- UK’s Osborne faces rebellion over Brexit emergency budget – Reuters
- What to Do about London Housing – Econ Lodge
- Let’s face it, the EU rescued us from failure – The Times
- Switzerland withdraws application to join the EU – Politico
Asia:
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- China Below Pakistan at MSCI Shows Beijing’s Credibility Problem – Bloomberg
- China’s co-living boom puts hundreds of millennials under one roof – Quartz
- Hong Kong Billionaire Li Bets on Uranium With NexGen Deal – Bloomberg
- China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined – Bloomberg
- China’s yuan drops to a five-year low ahead of US Fed rate meeting – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
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Peter Dutton says Malcolm Turnbull will be pressured to reinstate Tony Abbott – The SMH
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Malcolm Turnbull quashes rumours Tony Abbott will return to frontbench – The Guardian
- Anger as $75,000 NBN jobs in Australia are advertised in Ireland – Daily Mail
- Renewable energy target of 50 per cent would create 28,000 jobs: report – ABC
- Coober Pedy will soon be 70% renewable – 25 years in front of rest of Australia – Renew Economy
- Private vocational courses cost taxpayers seven times as much as TAFE, analysis finds – The SMH
- How the gas cartel is holding the nation to ransom – Renew Economy
- Australia’s richest electorates by house prices and how they vote – Domain
- Labor has ruled out a Royal Commission into the NBN – PC World
- Negative gearing fires up crowd at live election event in Sydney – The Guardian
- The GDP gap: the economy seems to be growing, so why isn’t my bank balance? – The Guardian
- Auditor-General slams ACT Light Rail – Canberra Times
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Has NZ’s reputation been damaged enough? – Interest.co.nz
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GDP growth beats forecasts – Interest.co.nz
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