MB Radio: Rort of the ElitesGlobal Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Panama Papers law firm boss sees tax shelter boom in US – Yahoo
- Fixing the Financial Crisis Was the Easy Part – Bloomberg
- The Blockchain Could Change the Backbone of the Stock Market – Visual Capitalist
- Digitisation shakes up corporate-bond markets – The Economist
- The Emerging Markets Consumer Stirs Again – WSJ
- The Real World of Oil Has a Warning for Financial Markets – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Health reform is dead, but Trump makes Republicans pretend it’s alive – Business Insider
- Trump’s doomed plan to bring back steel jobs – VOX
- The average millennial worker makes less than the average baby boomer did in 1975 – Washington Post
- GOP tax reform hearing postponed – Axios
- Trump’s treasury secretary: The tax cut ‘will pay for itself’ – Washington Post
- America and Canada, divided by a common border – The Economist
- The Democrats’ Existential Crisis Won’t Resolve Itself – New Republic
- Bernie Sanders’s strange behaviour – Washington Post
- Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery – Five Thirty Eight
- Fannie-Freddie Plan Would Create Utilities, Add Competitors – Bloomberg
- Marijuana legalization support at all-time high – CBS
- Caracas on Knife-Edge as Maduro Protesters Erect Barricades – Bloomberg
- Venezuelan Car Sales Have Plunged 99.4% From Their Peak – Bloomberg
- Venezuela officials “illegally” seize General Motors plant, firm says – NBC
Europe:
- Latest attack would be the sixth terrorist strike on Paris – Daily Mail
- Russian journalist and Putin critic dies after being beaten up by strangers – The Independent
- Alarm Bells Start Ringing for U.K. Economy – Bloomberg
- France’s Fillon cancels Friday election campaign event after Paris shooting – Reuters
- France’s Macron has call with Obama ahead of election – Reuters
- Nigel Farage announces he ’will not stand in this election’ – The Telegraph
- Brexit Will Be So Painful No One Will Follow, Finland Says – Bloomberg
- Greece Hits a Bailout Target. The IMF Is Not Convinced – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- US official: China puts bombers on ’high alert’ – CNN
- Cohn Says Trump Wants Trade Deficit With China Narrowed – Bloomberg
- North Korean Submarine Missile Program Advances – Free Beacon
- China’s Oil Refiners Are Coming for Your Market Share – WSJ
- Beijing may cut crude oil to Pyongyang, says Chinese expert – Nikkei Asian Review
- North Korea warns of ’super-mighty preemptive strike’ as U.S. plans next move – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- One new train a month not enough to stem V/Line’s runaway crowding woes – The Age
- ‘Calculated and elaborate’ Centrelink fraud avoids jail – ABC
- Labor hits foreigners, vacant properties and super funds in housing affordability package – The SMH
- ATO wins case on tax avoidance against Chevron – The AFR
- Up to 60,000 Kiwis in Australia left in ‘limbo’ after citizenship goalposts moved – TV NZ
- Imposing GST on low-value imports doesn’t level the playing field – The Conversation
- Push to impose GST on all imported online goods breaches best-practice rules – The Guardian
- Barnaby’s Bingo: Where will public service decentralisation send your department? – Canberra Times
- Productivity Commission warns against moving public servants to rural areas – The Guardian
- John Clarke’s final curtain call as last Clarke and Dawe episode released – ABC
- US preparing to charge Julian Assange: CNN – SBS
- Meet the 48 millionaires who pay no income tax, not even the Medicare levy – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull grilled by Leigh Sales over ‘Australian values’, citizenship test overhaul – ABC
- New citizenship test to focus entirely on the value of negative gearing – Chaser
- The lethal tiredness destroying Turnbull’s government – The Monthly
And in case you missed it, here’s last weekend’s podcast: Rort of the Elites
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
