Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Stunning drops in solar and wind costs turn global power market upside down – Think Progress
- Regulating Bitcoin: how new frameworks could be a catalyst for cryptocurrencies – The Telegraph
- This is one of the most devastating reports we’ve seen for the future of Wall Street stock pickers – Business Insider
- OPEC sees a world that still has too much oil – Bloomberg
- ETFs Show Limits in World of Emerging-Market Bonds – WSJ
- Global blockchain innovation: U.S. lags, Europe and China lead – Venture Beat
- Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined – NY Times
- Supply-Side Economics, but for Liberals – NY Times
Americas:
- 29 people shot in less than 18 hours in Chicago – Chicago Tribune
- Donald Trump’s election flips both parties’ views of the economy – Js Online
- Steve Bannon’s Biblical Fall – NY Mag
- Break away from the USA? The effort to cleave California faces its own split – LA Times
- Trump’s Renewed Focus on Health Bill Vexes GOP Tax Overhaul Strategy – WSJ
- Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point? – NY Times
- Why Americans have stopped moving – NY Post
- A Canadian dream – The Boston Globe
Europe:
- I sought counselling after the death of my mother led to two years of ’total chaos’ in my twenties – The Telegraph
- In Putin’s Moscow, a Pliant Press That Trump So Craves – NY Times
- Putin’s Self-Serving Israel Agenda – Foreign Affairs
- The Global Crisis and regional employment in Europe – VOX
- Why are the French so productive?, Global Business – BBC
- Pope opens free laundromat for Rome’s poor – CNN
- Turkey’s Erdogan declares victory in close referendum to expand his powers – Washington Post
- Italy’s Emma Morano, the World’s Oldest Person, Dies At 117 – Bloomberg
- Support for Brexit hits a five-month high, with 55 per cent of UK population now backing exit from European Union – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea – NY Times
- Trump Ties China Currency Decision to Help With North Korea – Bloomberg
- Chinese buyers fuel Brooklyn real estate boom – FT
- China, Russia send ships after U.S. aircraft carrier – sltrib
- Pence, in South Korea, Calls North Korea Missile Test ‘a Provocation’ – NY Times
- Trump Said to Not Shy Away From Sudden Strike on North Korea – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Wind Farm Commission received just 90 complaints in first year of operation (costing 800k) – Canberra Times
- Even Coalition voters believe the minimum wage is too low, polling finds – The Age
- Australia’s housing market and the great intergenerational tax rort – The Guardian
- I’ll never be able to afford a house – and older generations don’t give a damn – The Age
- Coalition’s housing affordability push defies economic sense, former MPs say – The Guardian
- Voters Expect Bill Shorten to be next PM, Abbott says – ABC
- Alan Jones: Coalition deserves a smashing at the election because they need to learn – The SMH
- Marriage in Australia: A timeline of how love and law have changed in 130 years – ABC
- Shoppies bid: Wage scandal union wants to ‘come in from the cold’ – The Age
- CSG could increase methane emissions near ‘bubbling’ Condamine River, report finds – ABC
- John Hewson says $1bn loan to Adani the ‘last thing’ Coalition should be doing – The Guardian
- A less than super response to housing – The New Daily
- Australian research on office hot-desking and activity-based work isn’t so positive – The Conversation
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$28.5 bln of NZ mortgages providing security for covered bondholders – Interest.co.nz
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It’s not what they say; its what they do – Interest.co.nz
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