Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Decline of the Coal Industry in One Chart – americanactionforum.org
- The economics of bank supervision: Theory and evidence – VOX
- The World Economy Looks a Bit Like It’s the 1930s – Bloomberg
- The Last Spot on Earth Just Passed a Historic Climate Milestone – Gizmodo
- Are Money Managers Creating Too Many Products? – WSJ
- Why the Brexit is Binary Bollocks for Investors – attaincapital.com
- Brexit Stress Mounts in Funding Markets as Dollars Become Scarce – Bloomberg
- Brexit poses global financial risk, Bank of England warns – BBC
Americas:
- An Unlikely Savior Emerges to Help Endangered Republicans: George W. Bush – NY Times
- Donald Trump’s Speeches Fire Up His Base, but May Cost Him – NY Times
- Some Extremists Fire Guns and Other Extremists Promote Guns – NY Times
- The N.R.A.’s Complicity in Terrorism – NY Times
- The First Big Company to Say It’s Serving the Legal Marijuana Trade? Microsoft. – NY Times
- Sanders vows to work with Clinton to transform Democratic Party – Politico
- The Trump Show isn’t funny. Time for GOP leaders to walk out. – Yahoo
- The US Trade Surplus in Services – Conservable Economist
- The 15 States Where Income Growth Went Only to the Rich – Gawker
- More Americans See Economy Worsening Than at Any Time Since 2013 – Bloomberg
- Do Americans Want a New ‘Grand Strategy’ or Less Overseas Engagement? – WSJ
- Champagne socialists in Venezuela party as people starve – Mail Online
- Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest unrest over food – Reuters
- Brazil President Temer drawn into Petrobras bribery scandal – BBC
- How Canada Became A Greenhouse Superpower – NPR
Europe:
- Why is the Netherlands doing so badly? – FT
- British lawmaker shot dead, EU referendum campaigns suspended – Reuters
- The mood is ugly, and an MP is dead – The Guardian
- Jo Cox: Brexit is no answer to real concerns on immigration – Yorkshire Post
- It’s happening: A robot escaped a lab in Russia and made a dash for freedom – Quartz
- Stocks, Sterling Surge After British MP’s Death – Zero Hedge
- Swiss 30-year government bond yield turns negative – MarketWatch
- Europe’s Largest Banks Hit Record Lows as Brexit Concerns Spread – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Yen Surges to Almost Two-Year High as ‘Brexit’ Storm Gathers Force – WSJ
- ‘I want to tell the whole world – Hongkongers will not bow down before brute force’ – SCMP
- Full transcript of Lam Wing-kee’s opening statement at his Hong Kong press conference – SCMP
- Defying China, Vanished Bookseller Describes Custody – NY Times
- China Dumping More Than Treasuries as U.S. Stocks Join Fire Sale – Bloomberg
- Foreign investors fleeing Japanese stocks – Nikkei Asian Review
- Didi Chuxing, China’s Rival to Uber, Scores $7 Billion in New Funding – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Minimum wagers won’t get a trickle-down treat from company tax cuts – ABC News
- Australia is in a real income growth recession – Canberra Times
- Survey: more Australians want climate action now than before the carbon tax – The Conversation
- The Coalition’s employment record isn’t as good as it would have you believe – The SMH
- Preference deals be damned, vote your own way – The Age
- Enough is enough: We demand a Royal Commission into the NBN – Delimiter
- Greens call for immediate “multi-party inquiry into the most cost-effective and future-proof architecture for the NBN” – PC World
- Labor promises ‘fair pay for work’ youth unemployment scheme – ABC
- Shorten vows youth jobs plan – The Age
- NBN ‘not major factor’ in innovation success, says Cities Minister Angus Taylor – The AFR
- Pork barrelling and the hoax of ‘every vote counts’ – ABC
- Native veggies that could revolutionise the Aussie dinner table – ABC
- Private vocational courses cost taxpayers seven times as much as TAFE, analysis finds – The SMH
- Casualisation of the labour market motivated by bleak economic outlook – ABC
- Cash-strapped state schools hire out teachers to private schools – The Age
- Health cuts could cost Liberals dearly in key seats, polling suggests – The Guardian
- Greens want trade deal oversight – Sky News
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Seven lenders, including big banks, hit in mortgage fraud case – Interest.co.nz
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New Zealanders on borrow-and-spend treadmill – Interest.co.nz