Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Saudi, Iran set to clash over OPEC oil output targets – Reuters
- Tax hikes on the wealthy: Good or bad for growth? – CBS
- Global-Warming Alarmists, You’re Doing It Wrong – Bloomberg
- AIG must face Pimco lawsuit over financial crisis losses – Reuters
- How Basic Income Solves Capitalism’s Fundamental Problem – evonomics.com
- Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world – BBC
- Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants – NY Times
- How OPEC Won the Battle and Lost the War – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump’s personal, racially tinged attacks on federal judge alarm legal experts – Washington Post
- Silicon Valley Finds Trump’s Disruption Unwelcome – NY Times
- Hillary’s long record of lying to keep the public in the dark – NY Post
- Obama slams Trump for promising to roll back Wall Street reforms – Reuters
- U.S. Economy Grows Modestly as Job Market Tightens, Fed Says – Bloomberg
- A universal basic income only makes sense if Americans change how they think about work – VOX
- Evidence of hidden protectionism in the US in the Great Recession – VOX
- Curbing Our Enthusiasm Over Rising Home Prices – Bloomberg
- Brazil’s GDP reveals depths of recession – FT
Europe:
- How ‘Economists for Brexit’ manage to defy the laws of gravity – VOX
- Germany braces for Turkish backlash to Armenian genocide vote – Reuters
- Reviled by Many Russians, Mikhail Gorbachev Still Has Lots to Say – NY Times
- Greece under the Troika rule – Mainly Macro
- Vienna Violins Show ECB How Asset Buying Is Music to the Ear – Bloomberg
- France train chaos as labour unrest spreads – Yahoo
- Greek gov’t submits draft amendments to conclude bailout review but will it be enough? – greekcrisisnotes.blogspot.com
- Dalai Lama Thinks Europe Has Let In ’Too Many’ Refugees – NBC News
- Leave camp must accept that Norway model is the only safe way to exit EU – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- Question about human rights prompts Chinese minister to scold Canadian reporter – CBC
- Chinese students ‘brainwashed by western theories’, say scholars – FT
- Robinhood Teams With Baidu to Offer U.S. Stock Trading in China – Bloomberg
- North Korea says Trump isn’t screwy at all, a wise choice for president – Reuters
- Thailand Officials Find 40 Dead Tiger Cubs in Temple Freezer – NY Times
- Japan’s Debt Burden Is Quietly Falling by the Most in the World – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Cutting corporate tax won’t create jobs. It’s yesterday’s solution to our problems – The Guardian
- Paying a high price for embarrassing the government – The Conversation
- ‘Tax as their bullets’: Scott Morrison’s extraordinary ‘war’ attack on Labor – The SMH
- Morrison’s war on business comments ‘tasteless’: Vietnam veterans – ABC News
- Turnbull vows to stop ‘excessive’ pay rises for construction workers – The Guardian
- Labor to ‘deliver fibre-based broadband’, says Albanese – PC World
- GDP figures show rapid economic growth — so why isn’t everyone celebrating? – ABC News
- Australia 10th in global solar capacity as industry looks ahead to sunnier times – The SMH
- Glencore to close Tahmoor coal mine in NSW due to low price – The SMH
- Melbourne school working on floor, corridors amid overcrowding – Herald Sun
- Labor’s renewable pledges continue – SBS
- Australian media deals are a victory for Chinese propaganda – Lowy Interpreter
- Australians oppose any relaxation of CSG restrictions – ABC News
- Growth isn’t the problem, inflation is – The AFR
- Malcolm Turnbull is getting fed up with the wealthy complaining about super tax changes – The AFR
- Labor attack ad targets super changes – Canberra Times
- ‘A different story’: Rio’s next bonanza – Canberra Times
- Has Basel done its job – Interest.co.nz
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Govt’s NPS directs Councils to release land – Interest.co.nz