Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- ProShares files for bitcoin ETF, and one to bet against it – CNBC
- Bitcoin Is the Market’s Favorite Buzzword – Bloomberg
- Deficits Do Matter, But Not the Way You Think – Roosevelt Institute
- OTC Derivatives Markets Thriving Thanks To Financial Regulation – Value Walk
- Investors Seemingly Learned Nothing From History – Real Investment Advice
- Small-Caps Break Out To All-Time Highs! – All Star Charts
- The number of millionaires worldwide is at an all-time high – NY Post
- ‘Amazon Effect’ Leads Investors to Sour on Global Retail – WSJ
- Will the World’s Most Powerful People Lose Their Jobs? – Bloomberg
- Millionaires’ wealth reached record $63.5 trillion globally in 2016: study – Reuters
- Cities are not the future – Medium
Americas:
- America might see a new constitutional convention in a few years – The Economist
- The Future of Healthcare in America – Cuny
- Here’s why millions of Americans feel left behind by the economic recovery – Business Insider
- Why Aren’t Paychecks Growing? A Burger-Joint Clause Offers a Clue – NY Times
- Trump Misleads on Who Benefits From Tax Plan – NY Times
- Winners and losers from the GOP tax plan – Axios
- Fact check: Smoke and mirrors in Trump tax plan – Chicago Tribune
- Who Would Benefit From Trump’s Tax Overhaul? – NPR
- Here’s how the Trump tax plan would raise taxes on many middle-income families – Business Insider
- Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul – NY Times
- Puerto Rico’s aid is trapped in 9,500 shipping containers – CNN
Europe:
- Uber ruling puts jobs at risk, says May – BBC
- Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet? – The Intercept
- Moscow Deploys Facial Recognition to Spy on Citizens in Streets – Bloomberg
- Banks Are Said to Begin Brexit Exodus Despite Transition Call – Bloomberg
- More Irish people still emigrating than moving back – Irish Times
- May Says Boeing Undermining Relations With U.K. Over Bombardier – Bloomberg
- Government withholds Brexit food price report – FWI
- Macron offers us a way out of Brexit mess – The Times
Asia:
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- Behind the bombast: North Korea’s genteel foreign minister – Reuters
- Pressure Rises at U.N. on Myanmar Over Rohingya Crisis – NY Times
- Gordon Brown warns next financial crisis could come from Asia – City AM
- Straight Outta Chongqing: How an Online Rap Competition Dominated Chinese Entertainment – WSJ
- Japan’s main opposition party abandons election – FT
- China ban on waste imports leads to piles of paper abroad, surging prices in China – Reuters
- The perils of pyramid schemes: a dark corner of China’s economic miracle – SCMP
- Local bankers, Chinese money laundering, and the growing risks – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Outrage at ‘political correctness gone mad’ a smokescreen for injustice – Brisbane Times
- Australia launches $10m satellite program to help spy planes detect asylum seeker boats – ABC
- Northcote by-election could see Greens knock out Labor, ALP polling shows – ABC
- Labor vows to ramp up ties with Asia – SBS
- Job vacancies surge. It’s raining vacant jobs. – The Age
- Sydney Metro Receives First Indian Built Alstom Train – Metro Rail Guy
- Unfit for high office – Nobody should make the mistake of thinking Peter Dutton will change – The Monthly
- Former senators argue citizenship ignorance should not save MPs – The Guardian
- ‘Wilful blindness’: Greens lawyers insist all seven MPs under a cloud – including Barnaby Joyce – must go – The Age
- Chevrolet Camaro to tackle Ford Mustang next year – News.com.au
- Immigration concerns at the heart of the Coalition’s victory, says Peter Dutton – The SMH
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, if property values fall you need diversity in your investments. – The Age
- How Sydney became one giant construction site – ABC News – ABC
- Can a comprehensive Capital Gains Tax be sold to the NZ electorate? – Interest.co.nz
