Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The weaker sex – The Economist
- How exporters grow – VOX
- The unusual gap between American and European bond yields – The Economist
- The New Currency Champ Lives South of the Border – NY Times
- The Digital Money Case for Phasing Out the $100 Bill – WSJ
- Global Productivity Growth: Diminishing Convergence – Conversable Economist
- Pension Crisis Too Big for Markets to Ignore – Bloomberg
- OPEC Be Warned: Russia Battens Down the Hatches for Oil at $40 – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Working class white Americans are now dying in middle age at faster rates than minority groups – Brookings
- Republicans wonder whether Trump’s heart was in healthcare fight – Politico
- Trump’s path forward only gets tougher after health-care fiasco – Washington Post
- The Health Care Bill Has Failed. Let the Finger Pointing Begin. – NY Times
- Biden: I regret not running for president – The Hill
- It was a good week for the GOP. But it could have been great. – Washington Post
- GOP wonders: Can it get anything done? – Politico
- Krugman: Infrastructure Delusions – NY Times
- The Real Immigration Debate: Whom to Let In and Why – WSJ
- Millennials have an average student debt of $41,286.60 – Daily Inequality
- Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year. Then Came ‘Month 13.’ – NY Times
Europe:
- Did the Greek bailout money go to ‘liquor and women’? – Credit Writedowns
- 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who wound up dead – Chicago Tribune
- Europe’s elite put on grand show of unity in Rome – Politico
- Brexit protest: thousands march in London to ’unite for Europe’ – The Guardian
- Thousands demonstrate in London against leaving the EU – Reuters
- Britain’s anti-EU UKIP party loses its only lawmaker – Reuters
- Marine Le Pen of France Meets With Vladimir Putin in Moscow – NY Times
- Europeans blocked from jobs in department running Brexit – The Times
- E.U. Is Turning 60 and Searching for Something to Celebrate – NY Times
- Varoufakis Says Drastic Action Needed to Save EU – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Pandas Are Adorable! (Also a Tool for Chinese Geopolitical Domination) – WSJ
- Alibaba and Tencent and the Coming Fintech Boom – Barron’s
- The harsh, hidden side of China’s war on graft, and how one man disappeared into it – Globe & Mail
- China Bets on Sensitive U.S. Start-Ups, Worrying the Pentagon – NY Times
- China’s Love Affair With Leverage Is Tricky to Break – Bloomberg
- China has regained economic stability, but clues are in the weeds of finance – George Magnus
- China Sees a Manufacturing Future—in America – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Questioning our politicians isn’t a special privilege for the select few – ABC
- Greens push for electricity crisis to be taken out of politicians’ hands – The SMH
- Read about the insanity of Australia’s first real estate bubble in the late 1830s – PBS
- ‘Revolutionary’ technology could help users slash home power bills – ABC
- WA Labor party misses out on upper house working majority by one seat – ABC
- Long-term mismanagement of Australia’s gas industry has seen price gouging by cartels and the possible need for imports – Saturday Paper
- Annabel Crabb: The bamboozling plot twists in the marriage equality saga – The Age
- Australia selling military equipment to Saudi Arabia during brutal Yemen conflict – The Age
- IT firms ‘exploiting 457 visa system’ to displace local workers: ITPA – arnnet.com.au
- Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted – The Conversation
- Report shows which health funds have won – and lost – customers – The Age
- Brandis’ teflon is wearing thin. The Bell Group fiasco is the political story to watch – The Guardian
- Bob Brown: In defence of civil disobedience – The Saturday Paper
- WA’s new share of GST ‘abysmal’ and a ‘joke’: Treasurer – Canberra Times
- Turnbull government backs penalty-rate cuts for low paid – Canberra Times
- Australia’s LNG exports to be hit by ‘buyers club’ – Canberra Times
- Popularity is causing Melbourne housing market’s growing pains – The Australian
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The generational debate just got real – Interest.co.nz
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What have future generations ever done for me? – Interest.co.nz
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