Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bear Stearns Staves Off Collapse of 2 Hedge Funds – NY Times
- Why Do Democracies Fail? – The Atlantic
- The End of Car Ownership – WSJ
- Robots Are Eating Money Managers’ Lunch – Bloomberg
- A study has demolished the biggest myth about quotas – The Independent
- Forget Trump-Generated Volatility. The World Is Awash in Calm – WSJ
- The Fed Is Raising Rates Too Slowly To Contain Asset Bubbles – Zero Hedge
- Oil Drops to Seven-Month Low as Libya Adds to Persistent Surplus – Bloomberg
Americas:
- What’s Wrong With the Democrats? – The Atlantic
- Millennials Are Helping America Save More Money – Bloomberg
- This generation’s idiotic trade policy is about to be born – Washington Post
- The Rise and Fall of the Word ’Monopoly’ in American Life – The Atlantic
- The Science Of Why It’s Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In The Southwest U.S. – Forbes
- EPA plans to buy out more than 1,200 employees this summer – Washington Post
- So Much for Trump Going After Pharma – Bloomberg
- Ford’s Big Bet: Americans, and Trump, Are Ready for Chinese Cars – Bloomberg
- ‘I Need More Mexicans’: A Kansas Farmer’s Message to Trump – Bloomberg
- Argentina 100 Year Bond Sale 3.5x Oversubscribed – Zero Hedge
Europe:
- Turning Germany’s ‘bad’ trade surplus into a good experience for all – VOX
- Over 170 years after Engels, Britain is still a country that murders its poor – The Guardian
- Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media – NY Times
- Suspected suicide bomber gunned down at Brussels central station – Mail Online
- EU Discussing Role as Broker on North Korea – WSJ
- EU ‘will have to respond’ to Trump steel threat, says trade commissioner – Politico
- No Brexit deal unacceptable, 30 Tory MPs tell May – Sky
- The Eurogroup on Greece: Debt Relief with a Fiscal Straitjacket – PIIE
- Why Macron’s Rising and May’s Falling – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- S&P says “real possibility” of China downgrade – Reuters
- China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing – Bloomberg
- China finally gets long sought-after endorsement as MSCI adds stocks to emerging markets index – CNBC
- Ford bets on low oil prices, moves Focus production to China – Reuters
- Tesla Said Close to Agreeing on Plan for China Production – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia warned it has radically underestimated climate change security threat – The Guardian
- NBN withholds individual internet speeds – trendzhub.org
- Ten years ago Turnbull called out Peter Garrett on climate. What went wrong? – The Guardian
- Coalition says it will make migrants wait up to 15 years for pension – The Guardian
- The NBN struggles to pass its first test in regional Australia – ABC
- NBN boss attacks Internet Australia under Parliamentary privilege – Independent Australia
- Three charts on: the NBN and Australia’s digital divide – The Conversation
- Welfare groups object to move to strip disability benefits from substance abusers – The SMH
- Robo-debt And Denial: The Protocols Of Centrelink – New Matilda
- What an overqualified worker has to offer – ABC
- Science journalism is in Australia’s interest, but needs support to thrive – The Conversation
- Australia’s Dark Vision of the World – NY Times
- ‘I could have stopped for coffee’: Jogger beats tram down Melbourne’s Sydney Road – ABC
- Pauline Hanson says autistic kids should be removed from mainstream classes – Courier Mail
- Government has reportedly secured the crossbench numbers in the Senate for the Gonski package – Twitter
- We need a royal commission into the corruption of Australian politics – The SMH
- What Australia can learn from the New Zealand retirement system – The Conversation
- Trump Presidency gives Australians a negative view of the U.S., Lowy Poll Finds – The Guardian
- Penalty rate cut: How much have you just lost? – ABC
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How Labour’s housing strategy hinges on foreign speculation – Interest.co.nz
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