Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- “Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas. – VOX
- How could we cope if capitalism failed? Ask 26 Greek factory workers – The Guardian
- ETHEREUM COFOUNDER: Ethereum is ’a ticking time bomb’ – Business Insider
- Finding the Active in Low-Cost Passive Investing – Bloomberg
- How One Hedge Fund Solved Low Volatility – Barron’s
Americas:
- How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President – NY Times
- Too Many Americans Live in a Mental Fog – Bloomberg
- ‘It’s an insane process’: How Trump and Republicans failed on their health-care bill – Washington Post
- To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism – Politico
- A Republican Party at war with itself hits the wall on health care – Washington Post
- Trump Finds That Demolishing Obama’s Legacy Is Not So Simple – NY Times
- Trump Is Showing The World What A Weak American Presidency Looks Like – BuzzFeed
- Trump seeks crackdown on ’Made in America’ fakes – Reuters
- Peso Rises as Trump’s Agenda Stumbles – WSJ
- Trump’s Renegotiation of NAFTA Is Starting to Look a Lot Like the TPP – The Nation
Europe:
- Brexit’s toll on foreign policy: Losing our reputation day after day – Politics UK
- ECB Is Studying Stimulus Options for Possible Fall Decision – Bloomberg
- Change Is Coming at the ECB. Just Not Quickly. – Bloomberg
- Trump, Putin met for nearly an hour in second G20 meeting – CNN
- Trump, Putin held a second, undisclosed meeting at G20 summit – Reuters
- Financial watchdog expects firms to make Brexit moves after year-end – Reuters
Asia:
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- Dying in custody, a Nobel prize-winning Chinese dissident wrote this last love letter to his wife – Quartz
- Behind a Chinese Powerhouse, a Web of Family Financial Ties – NY Times
- Here’s a Window Into How Xi Has Reshaped China – Bloomberg
- China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown – NY Times
- Top Chinese and US executives make urgent call to avoid trade war – SCMP
- North Korea conducts public executions for theft, watching South Korea media: report – Reuters
- Monetary Policy in Japan Has a New Problem: Amazon – WSJ
- India fumes as Philip Morris pushes Marlboro on young people – Reuters
- How’s an investor in The Peninsula’s holding company linked to Xi Jinping’s right-hand man? – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Documents on $30m Foxtel funding deal ‘don’t exist’, FOI reveals – ABC
- Justine Damond: Malcolm Turnbull demands answers over ‘inexplicable’ shooting – ABC
- The new Department of Home Affairs is unnecessary and seems to be more about politics than reform – The Conversation
- Peter Dutton’s Home Affairs super-ministry draws scepticism from British security experts – ABC
- Labor demands answers from Turnbull on Dutton’s Home Affair’s super-portfolio – ABC
- Power prices: Australia has a gold-plated electricity grid that consumers can’t afford – ABC
- Homeowners unprepared for Australia’s dark days of debt stress – Domain
- Refugee and fracking activists a ‘bunch of cockroaches’, says Liberal pursuing Senate vacancy – The SMH
- Visa overstays: 64,000 people believed to be illegally in Australia – The Age
- Australian local councils lead the way in tackling climate change as federal policy stalls – The Guardian
- Protectionism ‘contagion’ could hit Australia hard, Productivity Commission warns – ABC
- NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state – ABC
- Greens: Former Democrat Andrew Bartlett in line for Senate comeback to replace Larissa Waters – ABC
- APRA lifts bank capital requirements, may push up interest rates – ABC
- ‘It’s just about killed my marriage’: CityLink fines taking a toll on drivers – The Age
- Inaction on unemployed by “lazy governments” – The Leader
- ATO clamps down on clothing claims – what counts as a deduction? – ABC
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