Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The robots are coming: who will come out on top? – Information Age
- Talk Is Cheap: Automation Takes Aim at Financial Advisers—and Their Fees – WSJ
- Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet – Reuters
- Glass floors and slow growth: A recipe for deepening inequality and hampering social mobility – Brookings
- What’s Next for Cryptocurrencies After Regulators Weigh In – Bloomberg
- The Fundamental Conflict At The Heart Of Bitcoin – Forbes
- The Market Will Kill Oil Before the Government Does – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The United States Of Unicorns: Every US Company Worth $1B+ In One Map – CB Insights
- The Fed May Not Be the Master of Its Balance-Sheet Fate – Bloomberg
- Mnuchin Says Treasury’s Effort to Conserve Cash Is Costing Taxpayers – WSJ
- The Real Civil War in the Democratic Party – NY Times
- GOP scrapes for bare minimum on Obamacare repeal – Politico
- Health Care Vote: Senate Rejects Repeal Without Replace – NY Times
- The real losers of Republicans’ latest repeal plan – VOX
- Republicans face a monumental choice on Obamacare repeal: go big or go skinny – VOX
- The frightful state of the GOP – Washington Post
- Liberals often blame mass incarceration on the war on drugs. That’s not quite right. – VOX
- The Best $100,000+ Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Concentrated in Just 8 Cities – WSJ
- Moody’s: Administration sheds little light on US federal infrastructure plan – Moody’s
- Home prices in parts of Southern California are at record highs – LA Times
- Justin Trudeau: Is the Canadian Prime Minister the Free World’s Best Hope? – Rolling Stone
Europe:
- Hammond in a tough spot over anaemic UK economy – Sky
- Ireland weighs post-Brexit energy security options – FT
- British economy suffers ’notable slowdown’ – CNN Money
- U.K Economy Sees ‘Notable Slowdown’ in First Half of 2017 – Bloomberg
- France says U.S. sanctions on Iran, Russia look illegal – Reuters
- Post-Brexit beef at the WTO – Medium
- Even Immigrant Managers Fear Brexit These Days – Bloomberg
- Investment in UK fintech tops pre-Brexit levels in first half of 2017 – Reuters
Asia:
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- How India and China Have Come to the Brink Over a Remote Mountain Pass – NY Times
- Hedge fund Third Point bets on Alibaba, again – Reuters
- Stunned pilot snaps the launch of a Chinese anti-ballistic missile – Mail Online
- Philippine President’s Appalling Threat to Bomb Tribal Schools – HRW
- Intelligence Agencies Say North Korean Missile Could Reach U.S. in a Year – NY Times
- Ex-Wives and Kids’ Schools: Digging for Dirt on Chinese Stocks Gets Personal – WSJ
- China is making Iran a hub in its global infrastructure project – Axios
- Liu Xiaobo memorial service: After tribute, six including lawyers, activists detained; two go missing – First Post
Trans-Tasman:
- Malcolm Roberts fends off British citizenship questions – SBS
- Australia refuses to connect to undersea cable built by Chinese company – The Age
- All Senators To Be Sent To Nauru Until Citizenship Status Confirmed – The Shovel
- Gillian Triggs: Australian government ‘ideologically opposed to human rights’ – The Guardian
- Weatherill lets fly at right wing attack against renewables – Renew Economy
- Why Sydney’s new light rail trams won’t carry passengers on inner west line – The SMH
- Premier Jay Weatherill has made light of his alleged crack at “right-wing f***wits” at an Adelaide book launch this week – InDaily
- Weatherill lets fly at right wing attack against renewables – Renew Economy
- ‘Hundreds of millions of dollars at risk’: China blocks Australian beef exports – The SMH
- NBN provider says it will improve internet resolutions with telcos – ABC
- Queensland electric car ‘super highway’ announced, with 18 fast charging locations – ABC
- NSW council amalgamations scrapped after Government backflip – ABC
- Morrison mocks SA’s big battery as like the ‘big banana’ – The AFR
- Inequality increasing, says Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe – The SMH
- Australians left to monitor their own NBN broadband speeds – The Conversation
- Bill Shorten’s inequality pitch has rustled the jimmies of conservatives – The Guardian
- NSW council amalgamations scrapped after Government backflip – ABC
- ‘Hundreds of millions of dollars at risk’: China blocks Australian beef exports – The SMH
- Shorten’s peculiar plan for pesky voters: less participation, not more – The Guardian
- Australia enjoys a ‘dining’ boom – The Australian
- Rising essentials, housing costs hit poor hardest – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn’t Recycled – National Geographic
- Driving for more than two hours a day makes you less intelligent, study finds – The Independent