Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Corporate balance sheets in emerging markets: A comparison of the Global Crisis and the Asian financial crises – VOX
- The World Bank in the Era of Trump – VOX
- Trump’s steel import curbs could blow up global trade rules – FT
- Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Solar: Trump’s Stealth Trade Protection – PIIE
- UBS Has Some Very Bad News For The Global Economy – Zero Hedge
- Tightening by stealth – VOX
Americas:
- Trump Is Not Too Crazy to Fire the Special Prosecutor – NY Mag
- Trump likely to get GOP senators’ revised health care draft Tuesday – Fox Business
- California’s descent to socialism – OC Register
- In latest job, Jim DeMint wants to give Tea Party ’ a new mission’ – USA Today
- Brazil’s electoral court keeps Michel Temer in office – The Economist
- Canada’s Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety In The Age Of Trump – NPR
Europe:
- It is time to make a positive economic case for Brexit – FT
- Tory and Labour MPs plot secret deal to ensure soft Brexit – The Telegraph
- ECB Said to Be Unlikely to Include Greece in QE in Coming Months – Bloomberg
- Putin Meets With Ethereum Founder To Create National Virtual Currency – Zero Hedge
- Italy’s Renzi sees elections at natural end of legislature in 2018 – Reuters
- Labour Party now polling 5% ahead of Conservatives. Public Say Theresa May Should Resign 49 to 38% – Survation
- Britain’s political outlook seems toxic to investors – The Economist
- May tells MPs: I got us into this mess and I will get us out – BBC
- Across Russia, Protesters Heed Navalny’s Anti-Kremlin Rallying Cry – NY Times
- Italy’s Anti-Euro Five Star Movement Suffers Voting Setback – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- IT minister to meet top tech bosses over job loss fears, slow digitisation – hindustantimes.com
- Pentagon chief declares North Korea the new top threat to U.S. security – Washington Post
- U.S. Traders Are Turning More Bearish on China – Bloomberg
- Pakistan, in a First, Sentences Man to Death Over Blasphemy on Social Media – NY Times
- The most neglected threat to public health in China is toxic soil – The Economist
- When a $1 Billion Loss Is a Sacrifice Worth Making – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Lord Howe Island’s plan for renewable energy rejected over ‘visual impact’ of wind turbines – ABC
- NBN charges user $149,000 to upgrade from copper to fibre connection – Daily Telegraph
- The Australian Greens just won a Senate vote to let terminally ill people import their own medicinal cannabis – Business Insider
- Stripping workers of spending power could spark a recession – New Daily
- 7-Eleven compensation bill climbs over $110 million – The SMH
- Government ‘didn’t mean to embarrass’ welfare cheat suburbs – News.com.au
- WestConnex — a giant scam for Liberal mates – Green Left
- Pauline Hanson halts legal proceedings to slap gag order on ABC over secret tapes – ABC
- Labor is likely to support Turnbull’s encryption fight – IT News
- Tax office chief Michael Cranston charged with two counts of abuse of public office – The Guardian
- Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth – Brisbane Times
- Manus Island: Government could pay compensation to almost 2,000 detainees over treatment – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull facing a backbench backlash on Alan Finkel’s Clean Energy Target – The West
- ACCC has serious public safety concerns about common gas products – ABC
- China’s Operation Australia: The go-betweens – The SMH
- ‘Dangerously close to contempt of court’: Victorian government hits back at Turnbull government – The Age
- Petrol, diesel and hybrid options fuel demise of LPG as gas trend tanks – ABC
- Queensland budget 2017-18: Govt to add $2 billion for Cross River Rail – Brisbane Times
- Inland Rail route on the wrong track – Daily Advertiser
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‘We’ll shake up anything to get Auckland supply moving’ – Interest.co.nz