Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Mystery of Lofty Stock Market Elevations – NY Times
- Hurrah, Dollars Are Now Flowing (Almost) Normally Again – WSJ
- Is There Convergence in the Future of Global Capitalism? – Princeton
- Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Problems – Project Syndicate
- What the textbooks get wrong when they explain GDP – Political Arithmetic
Americas:
- U.S. Car Demand Collapses in Threat to Trump’s Factory Push – Bloomberg
- We now have a better idea who’s behind ’unmasking’ Trump officials’ contact with foreign agents – Business Insider
- Why Trump Lies – LA Times
- Trump pulls back Obama-era protections for women in the workplace – NBC News
- Trump snubbed Angela Merkel, but happily shakes hands with brutal dictator – Share Blue
- California GOP continues its plunge into irrelevance – sacbee
- Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules – Recode
- Congress is trying to give even more power to Hollywood – The Verge
- A New Tribalism Spreads in Donald Trump’s Washington – WSJ
- Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue – NY Times
Europe:
- After snub, EU lawmakers urge Dijsselbloem to quit as Eurogroup head – Reuters
- Is Trump Russia’s Useful Idiot or Has He Been Irreparably Compromised? – Foreign Policy
- Taibbi: Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives – Rolling Stone
- War threats over Gibraltar are rightwing imperial fantasies – The Guardian
- New Bank of England data bring post-1979 ’dear money’ into even sharper relief – Prime Economics
- Interim EU trade deal to hit UK services hard – Politico
Asia:
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- China Starts 2017 With Highest Number Of Corporate Defaults In History – Zero Hedge
- Trouble Bubbling Under at Chinese Banks – WSJ
- Foreigners Have Long Mined Indonesia, but Now There’s an Outcry – NY Times
- North Korea’s Nuclear Strength, Encapsulated in an Online Ad for Lithium – NY Times
- Chinese engineer ‘marries’ robot after failing to find a human wife – SCMP
- In ‘China’s Jerusalem’, ‘anti-terror cameras’ the new cross for churches to bear – SCMP
- China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage – Bloomberg
- Chinese Govt Saves Huishan Dairy to Avert Credit Fallout on Banks – Yibada
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s Indigenous People Face ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Racism, U.N. Envoy Says – WSJ
- Scott Morrison refuses to provide economic modelling for Government’s company tax cuts – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull has the medicine to fix the housing bubble – he just won’t administer it – The SMH
- The Snag That Stopped A Nation: A Brief Guide To Malcolm Turnbull’s Career Ending Blunder – Junkee
- Scott Morrison has six weeks to join the real world where voters live – The New Daily
- Michaelia Cash allegedly organised ‘secret meeting’ with One Nation before WA deal – The Guardian
- No ‘Buffett rule’ for Labor at next election, says Chris Bowen – The Guardian
- Bill Shorten’s leadership team faces internal fight over ‘Buffett rule’ to make wealthy pay tax – The SMH
- NBN will be outdated before rollout is complete: ACT government – Zd.net
- South Australia swamped by 90 battery storage proposals – Renew Economy
- ‘Fed up’: Eric Abetz slams big business over latest same-sex marriage push – The SMH
- Brilliant! This Man Got His Own Home At 30 Just By Breaking Into One And Killing The Occupants – SBS Satire
- ‘Bicycle super highway’ planned for Melbourne – ABC
- Jobseekers to lose ‘up to $42 a fortnight’ after Coalition launches internship program – The Guardian
- Productivity Commission calls for NSW to axe ethanol mandate – The SMH
- Tony Abbott criticises Coalition’s ‘horse-trading’ over company tax cuts – The Guardian
- Majority of voters back emissions trading scheme, Guardian Essential poll finds – The Guardian
- Just 12% of homes sell at Barfoot’s main West Auckland auction – Interest.co.nz
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Super costs not as scary as you think – Interest.co.nz
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