Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Education Isn’t the Key to a Good Income – The Atlantic
- Drowning in grain – How Big Ag sowed seeds of a profit-slashing glut – reuters
- The Disconnect Between Unemployment and Wages – IMF
- Teen births have plummeted 51 percent over the past decade – VOX
- Bitcoin ‘More Than Just a Fad,’ Morgan Stanley CEO Says – Bloomberg
- Dollar Gains on Yellen, U.S. Tax Plan; Bonds Slump: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
- Blockchain may finally rid the world of fax machines – Quartz
- Global economy at risk a decade on from financial crisis, says WEF – The Guardian
- Cryptocurrency Derivatives? You Bet. This Trader Has 295% Return – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Global value chains and the missing US exports – VOX
- Legalized Cannabis May Be a Windfall for McDonald’s and Taco Bell – Bloomberg
- More people were arrested last year over pot than for murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery — combined – Washington Post
- Minorities and Americans without college degrees showed greatest gains in wealth since 2013, new data says – Washington Post
- Most Americans Still Worse Off Than Before Recession, Fed Finds – Bloomberg
- Border apprehensions surge as immigrants try to get in before Trump’s wall advances – McClatchy
- Winners and Losers Under the Trump Tax Plan – WSJ
- The Tenuous Logic Behind Republicans’ About-Face on Debt – WSJ
- Trump’s ’small business’ tax cut is actually for rich people like Trump – Business Insider
- Puerto Rico seeks waiver of shipping restrictions to speed hurricane relief – Reuters
- ’Nothing, nothing.’ Aid lags in hurricane-torn Puerto Rico – AP
- Second-Class Puerto Rico – WSJ
- Judicial and Economical Corruption in Canada – YouTube
- These are the faces of Venezuelan hunger – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ’to quit’ – Aljazeera
- Families who can’t pay mortgage to rent back their homes in new deal – Independent
- Top economists warn against Franco-German ’small bargain’ on Europe – Reuters
- Italian woman ’marries herself’ – BBC
- Labour’s denial of antisemitism in its ranks leaves the party in a dark place – The Guardian
- Boris Johnson Hosts Launch of Hard Brexit Pressure Group – Bloomberg
- UK treatment of foreign nationals ’could colour’ MEPs’ view on Brexit – The Guardian
- The EU needs to cut out the amateur dramatics over Brexit and prepare to talk trade – The Telegraph
- Interest rate rise should not be feared, says Bank of England economist – Sky
- Germany Should Accept More Risk Sharing—and France More Market Discipline – PIIE
Asia:
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- For Some Chinese Uighurs, Modeling Is A Path To Success – NPR
- China’s Great Wealth Transfer Falls to Reluctant Heirs – Bloomberg
- U.S. student held in North Korea died of oxygen starved brain: coroner – Reuters
- The Mystery of the $1.8 Billion Korean Bond Selloff – Bloomberg
- It’s Political: Why China Hates Bitcoin and Loves the Blockchain – Coin Desk
- There’s One North Korea Taboo China’s Leaders Won’t Talk About – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- A single Tesla Powerpack battery saved this Australian town over $1.5 million in grid connection costs – Electrek
- How the government and One Nation may use media reforms to clip the ABC’s wings – The Conversation
- Gillian Triggs: Australian law has fallen prey to ‘isolation and exceptionalism’ – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘innovation’ agenda lashed by Auditor-General – The Age
- Cory Bernardi to target a million homes with ‘vote no’ robo-calls – 9News
- ‘Statesman’ Tony Abbott to advise new British Brexit free trade think tank – The SMH
- ‘A pretty crappy bet’: the pokies that rely on deception and addiction – The Guardian
- Jacqui Lambie to register party, seeks candidates for next Tasmanian election – ABC
- Turnbull government claws back $4 billion from budget deficit – The SMH
- Australians want more spent on drug education and treatment – survey – The Guardian
- Peter Dutton launches extraordinary attack on ‘economic refugees’ sent to US – The Guardian
- David Suzuki: Australia’s ‘sickening’ threat to marine reserves undermines global protection – The Guardian
- Young Australians are engaged in political issues, but unsure how democracy works – The Conversation
- How the heavens opened up to save stricken farmers out west – ABC
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Peters warns on economic risks, wants Super cash into infrastructure – Interest.co.nz
