Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Who Is The Real “50 Cent” – A Mystery Trader Is Systematically Betting Massive On A VIX Spike – Zero Hedge
- The world’s most dangerous cities – The Economist
- Down 10%, Mexico Oil Reserves Gone in 9 Years Without New Finds – Bloomberg
- De-industrialisation, ‘new Speenhamland’ and neo-liberalism – Vox
- Fracking 2.0: Shale Drillers Pioneer New Ways to Profit in Era of Cheap Oil – WSJ
- The effect of banning junk food advertising – Vox
Americas:
- The Geography of U.S. Productivity – The Atlantic
- Economic growth in the US: A tale of two countries – Vox
- The Trump presidency is in a hole – The Economist
- Devin Nunes, Trump and the Russia probe: A timeline – The Hill
- Bernie Sanders says Trump voters aren’t ’deplorable’ in jab aimed at Clinton camp – The Guardian
- Window closing for Congress to roll back Obama-era regulations – The Hill
- Vast wealth held by Trump’s top aides, documents show – NBC
- And Now, the Dreaded Trump Curse – NY Times
- Conservative Split Over Import Tax Imperils Trump’s Overhaul – NY Times
- American Jobs Are Headed to Mexico Once Again – Bloomberg
- Canada’s doors are ‘wide open’ for criminals to launder money in real estate: report – Global News
- Venezuela’s Government Scraps Ruling to Dissolve Congress – WSJ
- Top Venezuela official breaks with government, protests mount – Reuters
- How Does Populism Turn Authoritarian? Venezuela Is a Case in Point – NY Times
Europe:
- Every day a new Russian revelation. That’s not as bizarre as it sounds. – Washington Post
- Germany criticizes Trump orders on trade deficits, import duty evasion – Reuters
- U.S. sweeping up Russian hackers in a broad global dragnet – McClatchy
- Cameron ordered to guarantee Gibraltar sovereignty after ‘unacceptable’ Project Fear claim – Express
- Friends of Putin: Russia’s western elite networks – FT
- Better-off cashing in on Help to Buy scheme – BBC
- As French election race tightens, Macron defies National Front – Reuters
- A generation hooked on nostalgia is trying to return Britain to the past – The Guardian
- Average UK life expectancy falls – FT
- How Brexit damaged Britain’s democracy – The Economist
- Brexit: Outrage as Spain and EU accused of taking back Gibraltar – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- A Japanese Fleet Killed Over 300 Whales This Season – Smithsonian Mag
- China’s Belt and Road Enters the Arctic – Linkis
- Xi Jinping’s summit plan to tame Donald Trump – FT
- China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies – NY Times
- China Has Exchange-Traded Donkeys – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s growth record is a mirage – Canberra Times
- The APRA bandaid for the housing market is wearing off – The Conversation
- Coalition’s proposed native title changes a breach of deal struck between major parties, Labor warns – ABC
- Legal aid services join up to deal with high volume of Centrelink debt cases – The Guardian
- Albany-based whisky distillery gears up for national competition with ‘millennia-old’ local peat – ABC
- Ross Gittins: Minimum wage rise could benefit all in the rat race – The SMH
- Rightwing Media doesn’t need to be popular. Just ask Mark Latham – The Guardian
- Australian Company To Elon Musk: We’ll Supply Twice The Storage in 100 Days For Half The Price – Solar Quotes
- Hundreds of Australians with unnamed Swiss bank accounts face tax questions – Brisbane Times
- Government suspends its YouTube advertising, amid concerns about where revenue goes – The SMH
- Almost 6,000 farmers granted welfare payments in last year – ABC
- Make vodka cheaper but end cut-price ‘goon’, Turnbull government urged – The SMH
- Centrelink made it easier to complain and 114,000 took them up – Canberra Times’
- Turnbull warns party faithful against drift to the right – The SMH
- ‘Stop trashing your colleagues’: China treaty failure sparks war between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull camps – The SMH
- Autism spectrum disorder ‘not a deficit’, expert says, as greater acceptance urged – ABC
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‘Too many of our members are at breaking point’ – Interest.co.nz
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Other:
- Turns Out Earth May Not Be A Planet – Medium
- Salmon farming in crisis: ’We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas’ – The Guardian
- South Sudan’s people are starving, and fighters are blocking aid – Washington Post