Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal – The Guardian
- Paris climate deal: US and China formally join pact – BBC
- Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun – NY Times
- G20 ’honey trap’ warning: Fears Prime Minister’s officials will be seduced by Chinese spies and have hotel rooms bugged – The Telegraph
- How well-heeled City types leave you brown and out in finance – The Guardian
- Signaling and the evolution of female wages – Marginal Revolution
- The stock market is vanishing – Business Insider
- Why low interest rates are now doing more harm than good – The Telegraph
- Lessons of 18th-century unconventional monetary policy – VOX
- Bernanke: Should the Fed keep its balance sheet large? – Brookings
- The 5,000-Year Government Debt Bubble – WSJ
- The Coming Storm for Global Financial Markets – Bloomberg
North America:
- The FBI’s Clinton File – WSJ
- 14 Excerpts From the FBI’s Report on Hillary Clinton’s Email – Mother Jones
- Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich – NY Times
- Hillary Clinton, rarely seen, rarely heard – Politico
- Democrats Troll Trump With a Taco Truck in Colorado – Time
- Tensions Deepen Between Donald Trump and R.N.C. – NY Times
- Oklahoma earthquake: State orders shutdown of 35 wells – CNN Money
- Kaepernick didn’t bring politics into sports. The NFL did that by playing the anthem. – VOX
- They grew up as American citizens, then learned that they weren’t – Washington Post
- The Myth of Job Polarization – dol.gov
- People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars. Instead they are ridesharing – BuzzFeed
- After huge Venezuela protest march, government says foils coup – Reuters
Europe:
- How reliant is Britain on EU migrant workers? – The Conversation
- Italy’s ’100 club’ to reveal its secrets – Yahoo
- Turkey renews commitment to contain migrant flow to Europe – FT
- Angela Merkel and Marine Le Pen: one of them will shape Europe’s future – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Heated Words and Awkward Surprises After Air Force One Lands in China – NY Times
- Row on tarmac an awkward G20 start for U.S., China – Reuters
- China, U.S. underscore common interests, agree to control differences – xinhuanet.com
- Philippines’ Duterte says China building in disputed shoal – Japan Times
- Venture Communism: How China Is Building a Start-Up Boom – NY Times
- Philippines Says Chinese Barges Seen in Disputed Shoal – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Blaming Labor is not an economic plan, Scott Morrison – The Guardian
- Caught in the netherworld of unemployment: too young to retire, too ‘old’ to get a job – The Age
- Coalition’s bastardisation of the NBN has put a cloud over its financial future – Independent Australia
- Xenophon calls for review into federal lobbyist register, money in politics – The SMH
- Canberra’s unregistered lobbyists outnumber those on federal lobbying register two-to-one – Canberra Times
- Energy disruption: Solar plus storage to be cheaper than grid in 2017 : Renew Economy – Renew Economy
- Bill Shorten: The case for a banking royal commission – The Saturday Paper
- The hidden cost of cutting the public service – Canberra Times
- Second Labor MP aligns with Beijing over South China Sea – The AFR
- Queensland Government block Brisbane City Council from land needed for $1.5b subway system – ABC
- Australia’s Kevin Rudd Issues a Dire Warning About the United Nations – The Atlantic
- Coal miners strike against workforce casualization – Australian Mining
- Australia must choose between United States and China: U.S. Army official – Reuters
- Australian census 2016: complaints as people asked to fill out forms again – The Guardian
- Australia’s richest woman considers bid for country’s largest ranch – Ag Ranch
- Luxury Car Tax future to be decided early 2017 (possibly changing to incentives based on carbon emissions) – Motoring
- Turnbull flays colleagues after government’s humiliation – The Conversation
- Tasmanian Government urged to drop plans to regulate ‘sharing economy’ – ABC
- Australian Government Using Data Retention Law To Seek Out Journalists’ Sources, Hunt Down Whistleblowers – Tech Dirt
- How the PM’s supporters abandoned him – The AFR
- Loans to property developers hit a wall – The AFR
- Coalition’s bad end to a shocker week – The AFR
- PM reels, populists thrive – The Australian
- Abbott grenade for super reforms – The Australian
- Free trade’s heart is flexibility – The Australian
- Abbott’s face said it all: the PM stuffed up big time – Canberra Times
- Tax cuts to flow after backdown – Canberra Times
- The jobs eating Sydney’s labour market – Canberra Times
- Turnbull’s dole cuts will hit older Australians the hardest – The Age
- Let’s build like it’s 1974 – Interest.co.nz
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How Minister Smith could deal with land banking – Interest.co.nz
- Young Aucklanders need to look at apartments as a first home option, says Prime Minister John Key – NZ Herald
Other:
- Why Future Microprocessors May Ditch Silicon for Carbon – Vice
- This is the damage that tiny space debris traveling at incredible speeds can do – Quartz
- Meet Generation M: the young, affluent Muslims changing the world – The Guardian
- Musk Urges Tesla Workers to Cut Costs Ahead of Fundraising Round – Bloomberg