Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- America First Divides G-7 Even as Ministers Warm to Mnuchin – Bloomberg
- G-7 Echoes Watered-Down Trade Language as Mnuchin Holds Firm – Bloomberg
- U.S. fails to reassure Europe, Japan over ’Trumponomics’ – Reuters
- Organisations hit by global cyberattack – Yahoo
- Don’t Buy the VIX—Buy the VIX’s Owner Instead – Barron’s
- Revisiting why realized and expected volatility are so low – Marginal Revolution
- Mohamed El-Erian: ‘we get signals that the system is under enormous stress’ – The Guardian
- The strange mix of reasons why bitcoin has soared to all-time records – Quartz
- Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? – Boston Review
- Security Experts Scramble to Contain Fallout From Cyberattacks – NY Times
- Jobless recoveries: Exploring technology’s role – VOX
- The meaning of life in a world without work – The Guardian
- Labour market opportunities and students’ choice of subjects – VOX
Americas:
- Trump stokes fears of how he’d handle real crisis – Politico
- Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm – Politico
- Trump’s frustrations are boiling over after Comey dismissal – AP
- An Economist reporter dishes on Trump’s ’priming the pump’ interview – Pri.org
- After Comey’s dismissal, it’s time for a commission – The Economist
- Trump plans likely to aggravate U.S. inequality: Nobel winner Deaton – Reuters
- Inside the White House: Comey Damage Control And No Easy Way Out – Bloomberg
- U.S. Crackdown on For-Profit Schools Is Said to Go Idle – NY Times
- Some Americans spend billions to get teeth whiter. Some wait in line to get them pulled. – Washington Post
Europe:
- Russian oil minister sees balanced market coming if supply deal extended – Forex Live
- The rise of the ‘Re-Leavers’ points towards a Conservative landslide – FT
- Cyberattack on the Bundestag: Merkel and the Fancy Bear – Die Zeit
- Brussels could end up paying Britain a Brexit divorce bill, says Boris Johnson – The Telegraph
- GDP per capita in England and the United Kingdom since 1270 – Our World in Data
- Italian populism unnerves investors in the Eurozone – FT
- UK foreign minister says Russia may try to interfere in election – Reuters
- US strikes $5.8m deal on Russia money-laundering case – Reuters
- German finance minister says financial transfers in euro zone are necessary – Reuters
- What Schäuble is really saying about Macron and Europe – Credit Writedowns
Asia:
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- What would count as an explanation of the size of China? – Marginal Revolution
- Liberal economics think tank Unirule locked out of its office for ‘security reasons’ ahead of forum – SCMP
- Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order – NY Times
- North Korea ’carries out new missile test’ – BBC
- Many financial institutions should go bust, China central bank researcher says – SCMP
- The United States Is Losing Asia to China – Foreign Policy
Trans-Tasman:
- CSIRO: Time for a ‘science culture’ again, says leading climatologist John Church – ABC
- Man Who Threw Pie At Alan Joyce Sentenced To 24 Hours On A Jetstar Flight – The Shovel
- Australians can access only around 38% of the available content on Netflix. – VPN Special
- Federal budget 2017: New Zealand organisations say drug testing for welfare ‘not the best use of funds’ – ABC
- One in five NSW children now considered obese or overweight – ABC
- Brisbane shelf-stacker has important legal win in underpayment case against Coles, SDA – The SMH
- Why pick on banks when monopoly electricity networks make 10 time more profit? – Renew Economy
- Pilot who stopped a ‘psycho’ computer from plunging QF72 into the Indian Ocean breaks his silence – The SMH
- Annabel Crabb: Bipartisan consensus in Australia is baffling – The Age
- After the Bronwyn Bishop-era, Tony Smith stamps his mark as a model speaker – The SMH
- Young Australians moving to Berlin for cheaper rent and better quality of life – Domain
- What the future holds for Fairfax – The Saturday Paper
- ATO’s refusal to process Freedom of Information requests ruled invalid – ABC
- Don’t be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee – The Conservation
- Sending files by post faster than NBN for games developer – IT Wire
- Australian Labor’s budget reply and the fear of political unrest – WSWS
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Economic growth ‘has gone to the few at the top’ – Interest.co.nz
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Labour: Unemployment to 4% in first term – Interest.co.nz
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Is Generation Y turning into the new serfs? – Interest.co.nz
…and furthermore…