Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Think Twice About Going Cashless – Bloomberg
- Precaution, mercantilism, and the real exchange rate – VOX
- Commodity Traders Are Stuck in a World Where Everybody Knows Everything – Bloomberg
- Blockchain Technology in Emerging Markets – News BTC
- Here’s Why the Fed Will Stay Central to Markets – WSJ
- Are You Really Crazy Enough to Buy a Quadruple-Leveraged ETF? – WSJ
- Economists are puzzled about why incomes aren’t rising – Business Insider
Americas:
- US healthcare inefficiency: Evidence from prescription drugs – VOX
- Trump’s bizarre and un-American visit to Saudi Arabia – Washington Post
- Republicans fearing for their safety as anger, threats mount – The Hill
- The opioid epidemic tightens its grip on America – NY Post
- Why a U.S. Lending Bounce Isn’t Easing Worries – WSJ
- The place where old-fashioned malls are beating Amazon: Small-town America – Washington Post
- U.S. trade representative says no return to TPP deal and wants bilateral deals in Asia – Reuters
- The crisis in American journalism benefits no one – Washington Post
- President Mike Pence Would Be in for a World of Pain – Politico
- Watergate? We’re Not There Yet – NY Times
- Trump budget to slash entitlements by $1.7 trillion – Axios
Europe:
- Reality Check: Conservative manifesto on immigration – BBC
- Paris turns to English law to lure City business – FT
- Theresa May takes on the older voter. That’s gutsy, but is social care any fairer? – The Guardian
- Polls show UK’s Conservatives losing ground as policies set out – Reuters
- Greece’s Bailout Review Stalls as Creditors Debate Debt Relief – Bloomberg
- U.K. Threatens to Quit Brexit Talks If It Faces Massive Bill – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Here’s why China has to figure out how to feed the entire world – Bloomberg
- Ghost of the 1997 Crisis Stalks Hong Kong’s Economy – Bloomberg
- North Korean Leader Calls Missile Launch a Success – WSJ
- New world of Chinese palace intrigue – FT
- ’This is death to the family’: Japan’s fertility crisis is creating economic and social woes never seen before – Business Insider
- North Korea’s Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West – Reuters
- North Korea in new missile test, South says – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Recycling in Australia is dead in the water’: three companies tackling our plastic addiction – The Guardian
- China to partly fund new CSIRO climate research centre – The SMH
- One Nation on defensive after secret tapes reveal Qld election scam plan – The AFR
- ‘Shocking’: Hinch slams Hanson’s chief-of-staff after recording surfaces – SBS News
- Dutton says refugee lawyers can “rant all they want” – ABC
- ‘He wants them to fail’: Lawyers furious over Peter Dutton’s ‘fake refugees’ deadline – The SMH
- New coalmines will worsen poverty and escalate climate change, report finds – The Guardian
- Should poor people have fewer children? – The SMH
- Why is it so hard to find a bulk-billing GP in Canberra? – ABC
- Major delays at airports due to passport control system outage – The SMH
- S&P cites risk of sharp correction in property prices as it cuts 23 lenders’ ratings – The SMH
- Andrew Forrest to make Australian philanthropic history with huge donation – The SMH
- ‘Mockery’: Turnbull government quietly cuts Adani’s Abbot Point turtle controls – The SMH
- NSW Audit Office finds taxpayers at risk of having to foot the clean-up bill for big mining companies – Lock the Gate
- Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law – Canberra Times
- Is Australia finding it harder to be generous? – The SMH
- Cashless welfare card backfires with increase in crime, according to Aboriginal Health Council of WA – Perth Now
- FactCheck Q&A: does Australia have one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world? – The Conversation
- Turnbull: Bank levy to be tax deductable – Sky News
- Shorten ‘protecting banks’ on levy – The Australian
- Labor slams decentralisation – Canberra Times
- Adani $320m ‘royalties holiday’ proposal sparks Labor faction fight – ABC
