Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Robo-Adviser Wants to Lend You Money, Not Just Manage It – Bloomberg
- Monument to Wall Street Glory Becomes Just Another Mortgage Loss – Bloomberg
- Fed’s Fischer: US monetary policy normalization likely to be gradual – CNBC
Americas:
- Subprime Pet Rental Company Files For Bankruptcy – Zero Hedge
- Hillary camp scrambling to find out who leaked embarrassing info – Page Six
- Democrats begin to wonder: When do we win? – Politico
- Trump launched his “Buy American, Hire American” order from a company that buys and hires abroad – Quartz
- California again leads list with 6 of the top 10 most polluted U.S. cities – USA Today
- Portland Opens Its Streets to Self-Driving Cars – Bloomberg
- Venezuelan protests against government leave three dead – Reuters
- Cash-strapped Venezuela a major funder of Trump inauguration – AP
- Venezuela braces for the ’mother of all protests’ as both sides call for rallies – The Guardian
Europe:
- Russian bombers fly near Alaska for second day in a row: report – The Hill
- Russian bombers again fly near Alaska – Fox News
- Only economic study showing benefits of Brexit debunked as ’doubly misleading’ – The Independent
- Germany wants a strong EU. Why would it allow Britain an easy Brexit? – The Guardian
- Jeremy Corbyn is rushing to embrace Labour’s annihilation – The Guardian
- Le Pen’s FN party calls EU flag ’oligarchic rag’ – Yahoo
Asia:
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- There’s no such thing as a failed missile launch: Lessons from North Korea, the post-truth capital of the world – LA Times
- Is the United States Really Blowing Up North Korea’s Missiles? – Foreign Policy
- Plug pulled on US interview with wanted Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui – SCMP
- China seeks return of outspoken tycoon Guo Wengui – FT
- China Conducts Live-Fire Drills Near North Korean Coast (VIDEO) – Sputnik
- How Washington hard-liners helped to create the North Korean crisis – Washington Post
- South Koreans Feeling Cheated After U.S. Carrier Miscue – NY Times
- China greasing economy with $55bn in tax breaks – Nikkei Asian Review
Trans-Tasman:
- Amazon says it is bringing retail shopfront service to Australia – Reuters
- Tasmania could become ‘battery of Australia’ through increased dam storage, Turnbull says – ABC
- Putting Australia First: the 457 visa scrapping explained – Journalytic
- Public service move to bush won’t hurt capital’s growth, New England MP Barnaby Joyce says – ABC
- Mandatory minimum sentences and populist criminal justice policy do not work – here’s why – The Conversation
- “Mobile solar” plants to challenge diesel for use in mines, construction sites – One Step off the Grid
- Suburban hairdresser clipped $288,000 off staff entitlements – The Age
- The real face of the Australian housing crisis – News.com.au
- Dear home owners, keep your lectures to yourself. Yours, Millennials – The Age
- Cuts to community legal centres are ill-conceived and short-sighted – The Guardian
- ‘Panic’ in the Turnbull government over house prices is behind the 457 visa overhaul – Business Insider
- ‘Just Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Nutt and I had it’: Tony Abbott lashes ‘sneaky’ leak of Warringah polling – The SMH
- Scott Ludlam: ‘Malcolm’s Handcuffed To Some Delusional Right-Wingers’ – GQ
- Peter Martin: Migration does us good, 457 visas all the more so – The SMH
- Meet the 48 millionaires who pay no income tax, not even the Medicare levy – The SMH
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