Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Price manipulation in the Bitcoin ecosystem – VOX
- Blockchain’s Brave New World: Initial Coin Offerings – Forbes
- The most important charts in the world from the brightest minds on Wall Street – Business Insider
- Is there ideal portfolio construction for seed funds? – Medium
- High-Yield Carnage Stays Contained for Now – Bloomberg
- In the New Bond Market, Bigger Is Better – WSJ
- Long-Duration Debt Is Back in Fashion – Bloomberg
- Rampaging Oil Bears Are Missing Half the Picture – WSJ
Americas:
- Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session – NY Times
- America Is Now a ‘Second Tier’ Country – Bloomberg
- The GOP’s special failure – Politico
- Democrats, Stop With The Poll Rigging…It’s Getting Embarrassing – Zero Hedge
- What’s in the Senate’s secret Obamacare repeal bill – Politico
- Repeal and Replace Obamacare – The White House
- Hoarding The American Dream – WBUR
- In this part of the Midwest, the problem isn’t China. It’s too many jobs. – Washington Post
Europe:
- Britain Still Believes in Fantasies on Brexit – WSJ
- Brexit gives rise to new political identities – UK & EU
- An IMF Bridge to Somewhere for Greece? – Project Syndicate
- Bank of England rift as chief economist ponders interest rate rise – The Guardian
- Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger – BBC
- Grenfell Tower: 16 council inspections failed to stop use of flammable cladding – The Guardian
- Grenfell tower victims to be given flats in luxury £2bn block – Standard
- UK monetary policy: you cannot be serious? – Mainly Macro
- DUP broke off talks with Tories for 36 hours this week as they demand £2billion for Northern Ireland – The Telegraph
- UK to intervene in foreign takeovers of critical infrastructure – Reuters
- Italy tax police search five banks in diamond sales probe – sources – Reuters
- The Brexit Dilemma – Forbes
Asia:
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- China Bad Debt Prices Up 30% as New Gold Rush Gets Under Way – Bloomberg
- China’s Trump Honeymoon: Unexpected, and at Risk of Ending – NY Times
- Ford’s Signal to the Auto World: Here Comes China – NY Times
- Trump trade tsar warns against China ‘market economy’ status – FT
- Japan’s entry into world markets during the first age of globalisation – VOX
- China’s Mistress-Dispellers – New Yorker
- China’s HNA Takes a Page From Private Equity in Financing Deal Spree – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia, deep in climate change’s ‘disaster alley’, shirks its moral responsibility – The Age
- Australia warned it has radically underestimated climate change security threat – The Guardian
- What were they thinking? The texts that could cost three government ministers their jobs – The SMH
- Centrelink debt recovery system ‘so flawed it was set up to fail’, Senate committee says – ABC
- Christian Porter defiant on Centrelink’s ‘robodebt’ flaws: ‘This is not a matter for apology’ – The Guardian
- Senate inquiry calls for Centrelink robo-debt system to be suspended until fixed – The Guardian
- Drug Addicts, Alcoholics To Be Denied Disability Pension Under New Government Rules – Huffington Post
- ATO crashes again, nine days out from tax time – Canberra Times
- Adani mine ‘not a positive thing for Australia’, Labor’s Mark Butler says – The Guardian
- Who’d move to Sydney? The harbour city has priced itself out of reach – The Guardian
- Senate inquiry calls for Centrelink robo-debt system to be suspended until fixed – ABC
- Turnbull govt to tackle messaging encryption – Sky News
- NSW government fails to act on proposed building industry reforms for almost two years – The SMH
- Corporate welfare Canavan calls for taxpayers to fund gas exploration – Michael West
- George Brandis slammed by Senate inquiry into Bell Group conduct – ABC
- SA budget 2017: $382m surplus to be slashed as Government spends big to protect jobs – ABC
- How the avocado smashed its way into Australia’s heart – RN – ABC
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A great week for Winston – Interest.co.nz
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