Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The coming disruption: How robots might upend different professions – BC Local News
- Lesson from the Big Crash – Harvard
- The Berkshire Hathaway of The Internet – Medium
- Hedge Fund Titan’s Surefire Bet Turns Into a $4 Billion Loss – NY Times
- How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore’s Law – WSJ
Americas:
- Frank Gaffney’s Campaign to Denationalize American Muslims – The Atlantic
- Make America Singapore – NY Times
- The Fake Freedom of American Health Care – NY Times
- So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent – Washington Post
- Choice of I.M.F. Critic Highlights Trump’s Reversal of Global Policy – NY Times
- Competition from China reduced innovation in the US – VOX
Europe:
- Russia Inquiries Overlap in a Tangle of Secrets and Sniping – NY Times
- Trump on Putin: ’I Don’t Know How He’s Doing for Russia’ – Weekly Standard
- Scottish leader softens stance on possible independence vote timing – Reuters
- We have to prepare for the worst – Irish Economy
- Germany rejects Trump claim: ‘There is no debt account at NATO’ – The Hill
- Why Berlin won’t give Theresa May an easy ride over Brexit – The Guardian
- Thank the self-employed for Britain’s jobs miracle – The Times
- George Osborne told to choose whether to be MP or Standard editor – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Face detector rations toilet paper in Beijing park – China Org
- China reboots its superpower ambitions – FT
- Car wars: Trump plans auto fight with China – AXIOS
- How do we stop net giants mugging us? China will tell us – The Times
- Shanghai Housing Bubble No Match For New York’s – Forbes
- Japan’s experimental homes, from the strange to the sublime – FT
- Rex Tillerson and Xi Jinping Meet in China and Emphasize Cooperation – NY Times
- Amid North Korea threat, Tillerson hints that ’circumstances could evolve’ for a Japanese nuclear arsenal – Japan Times
- The real reason China won’t exert economic pressure on North Korea – SCMP
- China boasts the ’best’ relationship with Trump’s US, says former PBOC member – CNBC
- China opposes trade protectionism, supports free trade: vice premier – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- How the free market failed Australia and priced us out of our own gas supply – ABC
- NSW hospital parking fees to be cut following 14yo’s petition – ABC
- Former top cops want ‘white market’ in illicit drugs, decriminalisation, more injecting rooms – ABC
- ReachTel poll says voters in some of the most conservative seats in Australia overwhelmingly support legalising same-sex marriage in 2017. – The SMH
- ‘Gay marriage is none of your business’, straight man tells gay CEO – Chaser
- WA MPs declare themselves exempt from anti-corruption probes – The West
- Australian healthcare, gun laws, education: Ways we’re better than America – News.com.au
- Housing affordability is not just about youth. 15,000 seniors are living on the streets | Opinion – The Guardian
- ABC’s Uhlmann gets it wrong on renewables. Again – Renew
- Free speech? It depends who you are, in Peter Dutton’s view – The Conversation
- Your Private Information Is Being Sent Overseas By Centrelink Debt Collectors – Buzz Feed
- Obeid family hit with multimillion-dollar bill over ‘irresponsible’ ICAC lawsuit – The SMH
- ‘This is a crisis’: NSW government’s plan to fix housing – The SMH
- Coalition says coal subsidies still on the table despite Snowy Hydro plan – The Guardian
- Major holes as property developer crackdown left to members of the public – The SMH
- George Brandis finally releases ministerial diary after three-year legal battle – The SMH
- ASIC warns on housing bubble, cyber threats – The SMH
- Swisse pushes Coalition to reduce role of Therapeutic Goods Administration – The Guardian
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Is there too much foreign ownership? – Interest.co.nz