Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Mysterious Trader With “Nearly Unlimited Bankroll” Said To Manipulate, Dominate Price Of Bitcoin – Zero Hedge
- Here’s how start-ups get funded before they’re ready for venture capital – CNBC
- Bond Traders Respect Job Gains, But Inflation Is Make-or-Break – Bloomberg
- Beyond the boring blockchain bubble – Tech Crunch
- The Problem With Electric Cars? Not Enough Chargers – WSJ
- Lessons From A Trading Great: Stanley Druckenmiller – Macro-ops
- BlackRock, Vanguard Say Bond Market’s Got This Trade All Wrong – Bloomberg
- Grandpa Had a Pension. This Generation Has Cryptocurrency. – NY Times
- Global Inflation Hits Lowest Level Since 2009 – WSJ
Americas:
- Toxic waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts – Reuters
- China-Like Wages Now Part Of U.S. Employment Boom – Forbes
- Bust Up America’s Monopolies Before They Do More Harm – Bloomberg
- Pence denies eyeing presidential bid amid distance with Trump over Russia – Reuters
- GOP Effort to Overturn Arbitration Rule at Risk From Republican Defectors – WSJ
- Poor immigrants are the least likely group to use welfare, despite Trump’s claims – VOX
- These Americans beat Donald Trump and saved Obamacare. They say they can do it again – Toronto Sun
- When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election – Politico
- Trump slips and slides; the real US tyrants strike – The Times
- New Venezuela assembly sacks government critic Luisa Ortega – BBC
- Venezuela arrests over ’uprising attempt’ – BBC
Europe:
- A legal farce calls Greek reform into question – FT
- Putin Has Released More Shirtless Vacation Pics So We Put Them On Tinder – Buzz Feed
- New report names Aberdeen as UK city predicted to be worst-hit by so-called hard Brexit – The Scottish Sun
- The modern-day barons: inside the murky underbelly of land promotion – The Telegraph
- Employment statistics tell skewed story about UK jobs market – The Guardian
- Brexit-fuelled boom gives Dublin’s Celtic Tiger a reason to roar – The Guardian
- Western Europe tries to retrofit itself for finance – EuroMoney
- Macron touts Europe’s interests, but early actions put France first – Washington Post
- Germany’s election campaign ignores the country’s deeper challenges – The Economist
- 58% of Leave voters would pay to keep their EU citizenship, poll finds – The Independent
- UK ready to pay £36bn Brexit bill, but only if EU talks trade – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- North Korea Shrugs Off Sanctions Despite China’s Push to End Missile Tests – WSJ
- China leads the world in optimism – Axios
- China may initiate ‘limited war’ with India – Tribune
- How to avoid nuclear war with North Korea – The Economist
- Japan Buries Our Most-Cherished Economic Ideas – Bloomberg
- The Week Donald Trump Lost the South China Sea – Foreign Policy
- China’s Latest Bubble Is Its Most Serious Yet – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Why New Zealand outplayed Australia on the NBN – The AFR
- Don’t listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone – The Conversation
- ‘It used to be a dream, a million dollars. Now it’s nothing’ – The SMH
- Recycling companies stockpiling thousands of tonnes of glass as cheap imports leave market in crisis – ABC
- Same-sex marriage bill: ‘Kamikaze tactics’ used to push through private member’s bill – ABC
- ‘If he just had guts’: focus groups savage Malcolm Turnbull as a do-nothing PM – The SMH
- Public housing tenants to have rent taken out of their welfare – Daily Telegraph
- Australians who have lower levels of income, education and employment far less likely to be online – Computer World
- Resignation is the honourable course of action for MPs afraid of a marriage debate – The SMH
- Martin Place Stockbroker Says Homeless Should Have Just Gone To Bond Uni Like He Did – Betoota Advocate
- Foxtel deal smacks of being a sweetener – The Age
- Media company allegedly underpaid young journalists more than $300,000 – Mumbrella
- Eleven already jailed over CBA money laundering syndicates – The SMH
- CBA says 53,506 alleged late reports may be one breach – The SMH
- ‘You cannot talk about weak wages growth without talking about emaciated unions’ – The SMH
- Australia’s biggest union attacks ‘reprehensible’ shoppies wage deals – The Age
- ‘Working people are rapidly falling into the new class of working poor’ – The SMH
- ABC to move 730 and axe Lateline. – News.com.au
- Path internships show government is on the wrong track – The Guardian
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In search of an Auckland house building boom – Interest.co.nz