Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence – NY Times
- Is Exchange Income a New Target for Short Sellers? – Barron’s
- The unique map that reveals the entire planet’s urban footprint – Technology Review
- Markets set to fall after years of artificial support – The Times
- Stock Picking Is Dying Because There Are No More Stocks to Pick – WSJ
- Why Do Canadian Stocks Keep Blowing Up? – Barron’s
- McDonalds Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks: Here Is Its Math – Zero Hedge
- How big is bitcoin, really? This chart puts it all in perspective – MarketWatch
- Our Sweltering Cities Will Pay a Heavy Price – Bloomberg
- Cyber attacks: An economic policy challenge – VOX
Americas:
- Fed’s Long, Strange Inflation Trip Feels Like a 1960s Flashback – Bloomberg
- A Second, Even Bigger Foreclosure Reaches NYC Billionaires’ Row – Bloomberg
- The Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurs Flourish in America – Bloomberg
- Mark Zuckerberg’s snub of White House could backfire as Europe goes after U.S. Internet giants – CNBC
- Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes – NY Times
- At Nursing Homes, Medicaid Cuts Would Reach Even the Upper Middle Class – NY Times
- Can Trump Destroy Obama’s Legacy? – NY Times
- Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team – Politico
- Why ‘Mattis in charge’ is a formula for disaster – Washington Post
- Senate GOP expected to add new penalties for the uninsured into their health bill – VOX
- Percentage of persons without health insurance in the US – Our World in Data
- Some U.S. States Relax Restrictions On Cladding Suspected In Grenfell Tower Fire – NPR
- Making America scared again won’t make us safer – Washington Post
- Canada Ponders an Unusual Drug Problem: a Shortage of Marijuana – Bloomberg
- Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital Venezuelan crop – The Guardian
- In Venezuela, prisoners say abuse is so bad they are forced to eat pasta mixed with excrement – Washington Post
Europe:
- British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack – NY Times
- Italian government decree for Veneto banks delayed to Sunday: source – Reuters’
- How a Small Italian Bank Rescue Weakens the Eurozone – Bloomberg
- Russia ’Meddled’ in American Election, Trump Spy Chief Confirms – Bloomberg
- Brexit one year on: leave voter explains why she regrets her choice – Standard
- Can Brexit be stopped? The answer is in our hands – The Guardian
- Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety – NY Times
- Brexiteers versus Economists one year on – Mainly Macro
- Britain’s Financial Power Is Already Seeping Away – Bloomberg
- Why has Italy been spared mass terror attacks in recent years? – The Guardian
- How An Entire Nation Became Russia’s Test Lab for Cyberwar – Wired
Asia:
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- China landslide leaves 120 missing in Sichuan – BBC
- The dark side of China’s national renewal – FT
- China Fines Russian Speed Trader $101 Million, Issues Jail Terms – Bloomberg
- Beijing Is Investigating Some of China’s Top Overseas Deal Makers – WSJ
- Tesla Reaches Pact With Shanghai for China Production – Bloomberg
- China Bad Debt Prices Up 30% as New Gold Rush Gets Under Way – Bloomberg
- China’s HNA Takes a Page From Private Equity in Financing Deal Spree – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- English test for prospective citizens includes ‘politically charged’ questions on coal – The New Daily
- Public space sold for developer profit – Herald-Sun
- Parliamentarians fail basic English proficiency test – The SMH
- Migrant language service budget cuts – The Saturday Paper
- Infrastructure has become a politician’s play thing – The AFR
- Building manager arrested, charged over threats to ‘attack’ union organiser – The Age
- Climate change in drones’ sights with ambitious plan to remotely plant nearly 100,000 trees a day – ABC
- Corruption in the ACT: Payments made to landholders of up to 10x their land’s value based on fake valuations from Colliers – Canberra Times
- Scott Morrison says ‘fed up’ voters see politicians as irrelevant to their lives – The Guardian
- Welcome to CEO Sleepout. We’ve been doing it for 10 years and homelessness is worse than ever! – The Guardian
- Tanya Plibersek says Labor will restore Catholic school funding irrespective of budget – The Guardian
- Catholics “dishonest” on school funding – The Australian
- Australia to seek greater powers on encrypted messaging at ‘Five eyes’ meeting – Reuters
- Trucks are destroying our roads and not picking up the repair cost – The Conversation
- Unemployed men: how female partners suffer – Brisbane Times
- Driverless cars: Kangaroos throwing off animal detection software – ABC
- Liberals launch website to lure swing voters and take on activist groups – The Guardian
- Meet Sweden’s most famous police officer, an Australian – ABC
- The government’s war on the law – The Saturday Paper
- Aveo Retirement Villages: Exploitation of the elderly rife – ABC
- ‘Sorry seems to be the hardest word – and voters might not forgive at the ballot box’ – The Guardian
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The OCR may be higher when you come off that 2-year rate – Interest.co.nz
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