Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- IMF Global Housing Watch – IMF
- El-Erian’s market warning – CNBC
- Oil falls on strong dollar, crude glut; storms limit losses – Reuters
- Oil Discoveries at 70-Year Low Signal Supply Shortfall Ahead – Bloomberg
- These Stocks Will Surge When Millennials Start Making More Money – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The Trump campaign has a ground-game problem – PBS
- How race and identity became the central dividing line in American politics – VOX
- Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It – NY Times
- Trump’s Shift in Immigration Stance Echoes Obama Administration Policy – WSJ
- Sorry China, the future of next-generation manufacturing is in the US – Quartz
- Retiring in the United States amid low interest rates – Washington Center for Equitable Growth
- Growing Pains for Detroit’s Urban Farms – City Lab
- Venezuela arrests opposition activists ahead of anti-government rally – Reuters
- Mexican president’s approval rating plumbs new low – Business Insider
Europe:
- Apple tax deal: how it worked and what the EU ruling means – FT
- U.K. House Prices Rise Briskly Despite Brexit – WSJ
- UK girls becoming more miserable – study – BBC
- “The government needs its head examined” – should Ireland really throw €13 billion back in the EU’s face? – The Journal
- Apple Owes $14.5 Billion in Back Taxes to Ireland, E.U. Says – NY Times
- Greece Cracks Down on ‘Triangle of Corruption’ in TV – NY Times
- Mortgage delinquency and foreclosure in the UK – VOX
- The Brexit censorship campaign – Politics.co.uk
- French PM suggests naked breasts represent France better than a headscarf – The Guardian
Asia:
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- An Indian TV star uses her bra to shame the country’s censor prudes – Quartz
- Consular Visit Is a Rarity for American Held in North Korea – NY Times
- What Would China Look Like Today Had Zhao Ziyang Survived? – China File
- China, Eager to Host Elite Club, Primps for G-20 Meeting – NY Times
- Kim Has Officials Killed by Anti-Aircraft Gun, Paper Says – Bloomberg
- Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem – Tech in Asia
- Helicopter Money Predictions Are Still Flying High in Japan – Bloomberg
- China’s Morality Censors Take Aim at the Film Industry – Time
Trans-Tasman:
- Shame, shame, shame! Derryn Hinch falls asleep on first day in the Senate – The SMH
- Compromise Solution: Turnbull To Keep 18C, Bernardi To Keep Being A Knob – The Shovel
- Paul Keating warns Australia to prepare for the ‘rise of China’ with strong foreign policy – ABC
- Standard & Poor’s economist warns Australian house prices can’t be trusted – The Guardian
- Pressure mounts on Malcolm Turnbull to make new refugee pledge at Barack Obama summit – Canberra Times
- Northern Territory to drop open speed limits – Drive
- Coalition environment committee chairman takes aim at solar subsidies – The Guardian
- Australia’s banks are too big for the nation’s good – ABC
- Pacific grim: Australia torn between US and China – BBC News – BBC
- Malcolm Turnbull says Coalition will negotiate on ABCC bill – The Guardian
- Turnbull government facing its first defeat in Senate vote on banking royal commission – The Age
- Multinational sham: how Australia was hoodwinked – Michael West
- FactCheck Q&A: is a week’s worth of Newstart equal to what a politician can claim for one night in Canberra? – The Conversation
- Scott Morrison is attacking the old when he puts down the ‘taxed-nots’ – Canberra Times
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Kiwis’ debt pile grows at fastest rate since 2007 – Interest.co.nz
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No longer happy about house price rises – Interest.co.nz
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Baby boomers win again, although it may not feel like it to them – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the Voice of ISIS, Is Dead – New Yorker