Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- $2 Trillion Later, Does the Fed Even Know if Quantitative Easing Worked? – WSJ
- The Scandalous Friendship That Shaped Adam Smith – NY Times
- Bet With Buffett, Not Against Him – Bloomberg
- Unfinished Business: The North Atlantic crisis and its aftermath – VOX
- There’s a New Yield Curve to Predict Recessions – Bloomberg
- How bitcoin could overcome its wild reputation – CNBC
- Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain – Longs, Shorts, or Trading Sardines… – Wexboy
- Bitcoin futures-based ETF likely to be approved in the U.S. – The Street
- How the ‘great central bank unwind’ could ignite the next financial crisis – Market Watch
Americas:
- Medicaid directors issue warning on new ObamaCare repeal bill – The Hill
- Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades – The Guardian
- Even the Insurance Industry Is Against the Latest GOP Health Care Plan – Fortune
- Ford cutting North American production as demand slips – Seattle Times
- Debt Continues to Haunt Ailing Retailers – Bloomberg
- Wall Street Exhales After Venezuela Makes Another Bond Payment – Bloomberg
- What Happened to Argentina? – NY Times
- Fast-food restaurants closing as Quebec unemployment rate nears all-time low – CBC
Europe:
- Why It’s So Hard for Europe’s Big Banks to Do Big Deals – WSJ
- UK banks to check 70m bank accounts in search for illegal immigrants – The Guardian
- Jeremy Corbyn: Britain’s most likely next prime minister – The Economist
- Brexit – no job for dilettantes – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- No one from the EU is going to Theresa May’s big Brexit speech – The Independent
- Germany will strive to save Iran nuclear deal: Gabriel – Reuters
- The German elections are not boring. They are troubling. – Euro Intelligence
- Corporate debt may take bigger slice of QE pie as ECB tapers – Reuters
- For Decades, Nazis Have Been Germany’s Shame. But Is That About To Change? – Buzz Feed
Asia:
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- Kim Jong Un: ’Deranged’ Trump will ’pay dearly’ for threat – AP News
- North Korea foreign minister says may detonate nuclear bomb in Pacific, reports South Korean news agency – CBC
- China’s Baidu launches $1.5 billion autonomous driving fund – Reuters
- Crackdown Grounds China Cryptocurrency Executives – WSJ
- Bitcoin enthusiasts have figured out a way to get around a China trading ban – Business Insider
- Why S&P’s First China Downgrade Since 1999 Is Good News for Bulls – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Clean energy powers high tech astronomy in world-first collaboration with CSIRO – ABC
- Breakthrough Antarctic flight brings Australia’s remote bases closer to home – ABC
- Momentum builds for Australian space agency ahead of International Astronautical Congress – ABC
- Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is embroiled in an ugly behind-the-scenes row fuelled by concerns it is running short of money – IT News
- Labor refuses to back bank boss John O’Sullivan as next ASIC chairman – The AFR
- ABS ‘sorry’ as same-sex postal survey hits bum note – 9News
- Reactionary right tying itself in knots to forestall same-sex marriage modernity – The SMH
- Whyalla steelworks owner Sanjeev Gupta buys majority stake in renewable firm Zen Energy – ABC
- Cigarette tax increase in Australia: Why the smoking price hike is ridiculous – News.com.au
- Baby formula warehouses where milk is sent from Australia to China – News.com.au
- Australia-Indonesia trade deal needs more political will to succeed, negotiator says – ABC
- Australia Has a Taxing Problem When It Comes to Ghost Homes – Bloomberg
- Solar Batteries: Australians see energy storage as the future, poll finds – ABC
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Can National and the Greens ever be mates? – Interest.co.nz
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Peters Kingmaker in final Newshub poll – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The teaching of economics gets an overdue overhaul – The Economist