Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Artificial intelligence and employment – VOX
- The Tale of Three Shorts: Part I – alexgurevich.tumblr.com
- Synchronisation in business cycles – VOX
- Calculating the Return on Incremental Capital Investments – basehitinvesting.com
- Central Bankers Told They Should Be Sprinting Toward Blockchain – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The GOP’s Mexico Derangement – WSJ
- Trump train derails on Capitol Hill – Politico
- Trump self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists – Washington Examiner
- Senate 2016: The Democrats Strike Back – FiveThirtyEight
- The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality, Starting at One Month Old – NY Times
- Trump Has Near 50-50 Chance of Winning Election, Ferguson Says – Bloomberg
- Yellen Insists Fed Increase En Route as Focus Moves to September – Bloomberg
Europe:
- The Leave campaign can’t keep dodging the biggest question – The Guardian
- EU referendum: who needs experts when we’ve got Michael Gove? – The Telegraph
- Hitachi boss says Brexit would ’force rethink’ of UK operations and jobs – Mirror Online
- Brexit would not make £8bn available for the NHS – ifs.org.uk
- The Left Case for Brexit – dissentmagazine.org
- The leave campaign would scrap workers’ rights. It must tell us which ones – The Guardian
- Sterling swings as polls suggest UK heading for EU exit – The Guardian
- Brexit forecasters miss everything that matters to real voters – The Guardian
- Brexit would make Northern Ireland border controls inevitable: Osborne – Reuters
- Nato countries begin largest war game in eastern Europe since cold war – The Guardian
- Here is one export Germany should not be making – FT
Asia:
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- U.S., China Trade Barbs Over South China Sea at Shangri-La Dialogue – WSJ
- Kerry warns Beijing over air defense zone for South China Sea – Reuters
- How to Bridge the Divide Over the South China Sea – Bloomberg View
- China urges U.S., Japan to stop pointing fingers on South China Sea – Xinhua
- China Does Not Want Your Rules Based Order – Scholar’s Stage
- Treasury’s Lew: China pause on reforms would have ‘very bad consequences’ – Reuters
- China’s Rising Home Prices Could Bring Clampdown – Mingtiandi
- China Toxic Debt Solution Has One Big Problem – Bloomberg
- Goldman Sees Rising Risk of China’s Yuan Repeating January Rout – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Joyce slammed over NBN comments – Nine News
- Young Australians embarrassed and afraid to get help for mental health – ABC News
- The Great Barrier Reef: A Catastrophe Laid Bare – The Guardian
- Should we pay everyone a universal basic income? – The Age
- Greens pledge new environmental protection laws and independent watchdog – The Guardian
- Jobs, growth and other bedtime stories – ABC News
- Rate of 18-year-olds enrolled to vote jumps by 20 per cent – ABC News
- Workers face a creepy tax take – The West Australian
- Record numbers plan to vote for independent candidates or micro-parties, poll finds – News.com.au
- As political debate rages abroad, the age of cynical reason continues in Australia – The Guardian
- The role of climate change in eastern Australia’s wild storms – The Conversation
- With friends like these: just how close are the Liberal Party and IPA? – The Conversation
- Where could Australia genuinely innovate? – The Conversation
- RBA rings house price warning – again – Canberra Times
- Nation of Debt: New Zealand sitting on half-trillion-dollar debt bomb – NZ Herald
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Debate growing over low-skilled migration surge – Interest.co.nz
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Tackling ‘privilege and tax loopholes’ – Interest.co.nz
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Housing market at risky level – English – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved – The Atlantic