Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bitcoin Is Now Worth Nearly 3 Times More Than an Ounce of Gold – Coin Desk
- The Dollar Swoon Lifting U.S. Stocks Is Poised to Continue – WSJ
- Mega-Hedge Funds Are Reporting Big Gains – Bloomberg
- HSBC’s Steven Major Sounds a Bearish Alarm on European Credit – Bloomberg
- Tesla to Sell $1.5 Billion in Debt Amid Launch of Model 3 – WSJ
- Cash-Hungry Tesla’s Missed Opportunity – WSJ
- “We Are More Reliant On Central Banks Holding Markets Together Than Ever Before” – Zero Hedge
- Bitcoin’s meteoric rise is costing some investors billions – Business Insider
Americas:
- No need for Fed to raise interest rates in near term: Bullard – Reuters
- The New Socialism of Fools – Project Syndicate
- Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips – IBD
- Fannie, Freddie Would Need $100BN Bailout In New Financial Crisis – Zero Hedge
- Washington dysfunction fuels uncertainty for businesses – Washington Post
- This American Town Was Left to Die, and Suddenly Economists Care – Bloomberg
- The Untapped Wealth of American Cities – City Lab
- Can we wean Elon Musk off government support already? – The Hill
- What’s It Like to See a Democracy Destroyed? – Politico
- Hedge Fund Sues to Have Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy Case Thrown Out – NY Times
Europe:
- Thanks to Brexit, the Irish Countryside Is More Popular Than Ever – Bloomberg
- U.K. Says It’s Attracting ’Top Talent’ to Post-Brexit Trade Team – Bloomberg
- Berlin to the rescue? A closer look at Germany’s position on Brexit – CER
- Germany to restart sending migrants back to Greece – Euro Observer
- Europe Swelters Under a Heat Wave Called ‘Lucifer’ – NY Times
- Britons ’take more and shorter breaks’ than in mid-1990s – BBC
- Election failure shakes confidence in May’s Brexit strategy – Reuters
- U.K. Economy Takes a Hit as Consumer Spending Slumps Further – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- The Chinese Are About to Take Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to the Cleaners – Daily Beast
- North Korea Says ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will It Negotiate Over Nuclear Weapons – WSJ
- China says willing to pay the price for new North Korea sanctions – Reuters
- North Korea ready to teach U.S. ’severe lesson’, says U.N. abused its authority – Reuters
- These Chinese tech stocks are even hotter than FANG – CNBC
- What to expect from Xi Jinping’s Communist Party congress power play – SCMP
- China Gives Up Global Role for a Stronger Yuan – WSJ
- An everyday brush with disaster on Mumbai’s crowded railway – FT
- India wanted a friend in Trump. Instead, it’s getting chaos. – Washington Post
- Indonesia Barters Coffee and Palm Oil for Russian Fighter Jets – Bloomberg
- China’s bank regulator lets crackdown deadline slip over stability worries: sources – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- It’s over: Liberal MPs cancel plans to cross floor on same-sex marriage – The SMH
- Liberal Party votes no change on same-sex marriage policy – ABC
- Same-sex marriage: Malcolm Turnbull sets date for $122m postal vote as doomed plebiscite heads to the Senate – ABC
- Cormann saying he has the power to order the ABS to run a postal plebiscite without a vote – ABC
- Queensland Premier ‘horrified’ over NSW waste dumping, Four Corners allegations – ABC
- Greens and Hinch raise plan to force foreign-born senators to prove revocation – The Guardian
- Turnbull calls national plebiscite to decide whether to get out of bed today – Chaser
- Hear that whoosh? It’s Chinese money pulling out of Sydney property – Canberra Times
- Commonwealth Bank’s ‘IT glitch’ defence questioned – New Daily
- Martin Place tent city: Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces change to legislation on Sydney Crown land – The SMH
- Sydney’s tent city remains amid confusion over deal for homeless people – ABC
- New laws could demolish tent city by end of week – ABC
- Documents detailing $30 million Fox Sports deal to remain confidential, minister says – ABC
- Artificial intelligence and automation: Could a robot do your job? – ABC
- New trains ‘will not be ready’ for 2018 Commonwealth Games – ABC
- Australia spending more on prisons, policing than other comparable countries: report – ABC
- Expensive prisons: Why spending more doesn’t make us feel safer – ABC
Other:
- Too many prisons make bad people worse. There is a better way – The Economist