Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- What’s it like to lose £350m? A rogue trader confesses – The Guardian
- Inflation targets and the benefits of an explicit tolerance ban – VOX
- The Robots Have Taken Over (Our Brains) – Medium
- Thinking you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916. – Washington Post
Americas:
- The government wants Julian Assange in jail. That could hurt the rest of us. – Washington Post
- Obama urges ’political courage’ to save Affordable Care Act – Politico
- Condoleezza Rice: Don’t be reassured by Marine Le Pen’s defeat in France – USA Today
- Republicans Are Building An Alternate Reality Around Their Health Care Bill – Huffington Post
- Price: No one will lose coverage with $880B in Medicaid cuts – Axios
- America’s ‘Miracle Machine’ is in desperate need of, well, a miracle – Washington Post
- To Be Great Again, America Needs Immigrants – NY Times
- Venezuela opposition rejects Maduro plan to rework constitution – Yahoo
Europe:
- National Front will change its name after Le Pen’s defeat – Politico
- Front National ’to be renamed’ as Jean-Marie Le Pen criticises daughter’s campaign – The Telegraph
- 5 takeaways from Emmanuel Macron’s win in France – Politico
- With Le Pen defeat, Europe’s far-right surge stalls – Washington Post
- Why Macron Won: Luck, Skill and France’s Dark History – NY Times
- Macron victory hailed as call for European unity – France 24
- The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers – Daily Beast
- Renzi crowned leader of his party (again) – Politico
- Merkel Annoyed by Juncker Over Brexit Dinner With May: Spiegel – Bloomberg
- This Town Has Been Labour Since 1919. It’s About To Switch To The Tories – Buzz Feed
- May’s no genius, Labour has only itself to blame for this catastrophe – The Guardian
- Theresa May maintains strong election lead in weekend opinion polls – Reuters
- The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China’s Deleveraging Bill Tops $500 Billion – Bloomberg
- Merkel Annoyed by Juncker Over Brexit Dinner With May: Spiegel – Bloomberg
- Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities – Next Cities
- China’s April FX reserves rise, beating market expectations – Mail Online
- China pitch by Kushner sister renews controversy over visa program for wealthy – Washington Post
- Chinese-North Korean Venture Shows How Much Sanctions Can Miss – WSJ
- North Korea ’detains US citizen Kim Hak-song’ – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Yes Malcolm, Australians actually like well-funded and fair government services – Greg Jericho
- Housing affordability: 87% of Australians fear for future generations – The Guardian
- ABC – War on waste: Do millions of pages of paper really need to be printed for budget 2017? – ABC
- The government, not the welfare system, lacks integrity – New Daily
- Budget 2017: Australians want company tax spent on environment, survey finds – ABC
- Foxtel launches new round of piracy site blocking applications – ABC
- Greens and One Nation concerned about proposed media ownership rules – The Guardian
- Govt to introduce legislation for broadband tax – IT News
- Budget: AFP to get $321m funding boost to hire extra personnel – ABC
- Veterans’ mental health services to get $350m budget boost – The Guardian
- ‘It’s what we’ve been praying for’: Veterans welcome Gold Card decision – ABC
- Budget 2017: Living donors to get expenses covered in bid to improve organ donations – ABC
- Naplan is a mess and has little benefit. Parents should withdraw their kids – The Guardian
- Domino’s cops landmark fine for breaching franchise code – The Age
- Fracking fault lines: Lazarus puts boot into gas mining – Northern Daily Leader
- For cities, hosting major sporting events is a double-edged sword – The Conversation
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‘No excuse for the OCR to be just 1.75%’ – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ expected to bring forward its forecast for interest rate rises – Interest.co.nz
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