Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Routinisation, globalisation, and the fall in labour’s share of income – VOX
- Cryptonomics: eToro’s CEO Talks About the Future of Investing By Inves – Investing
- How Stan Fischer Became a Global Central Banking Giant – WSJ
- Major Banks’ Commodities Revenue Sinks to 11-Year Low – Bloomberg
- World’s Housing Market Set to Slow – Bloomberg
- Ethereum Startup ConsenSys Launches $50 Million Blockchain Fund – Coin Desk
- Bitcoin up sevenfold since Warren Buffett warned digital currency was a ’mirage’ – CNBC
- The likely replacement for Libor may be just as prone to abuse – City AM
America:
- Fed Policies Aren’t Distorting Asset Prices – Bloomberg
- What Does It Mean to Be American? – Medium
- Senate Panel Rejects Trump Plan for Cutting Foreign Assistance – Foreign Policy
- Notes from meeting with Russians said not to be damaging to Trump family – Politico
- “A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States” – Pro Market
- The Republican Party in California continues its long, slow slide – The Economist
- As Cities Look to Lure Amazon, Tax Breaks May Be Key – WSJ
- A generational failure: As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds a new transport system – The Transport Politic
- Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants – Washington Post
- A Betrayal of America’s Soul – Project Syndicate
- All the relief money in the world won’t rebuild Houston. Undocumented workers will. – VOX
- Teen marijuana use falls to 20-year low, defying legalization opponents’ predictions – Washington Post
- How Hurricane Harvey Will Ripple Through the U.S. Economy – WSJ
Europe:
- Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004 – USA
- Business groups frozen out of new round of Davis Brexit talks – Sky
- Brexit and fair movement of people – UK and EU
- Senior Tories sign letter urging Theresa May to deliver hard Brexit by 2019 – The Times
- Islamophobia holding back UK Muslims in workplace, study finds – The Guardian
- Brexit? For Now, E.U. Leaves Fights to the U.K. – NY Times
- Macron, in Greece, pushes vision of deeper euro zone integration – Reuters
- ‘Norway option’ is not a long-term answer to the problems posed by Brexit – The Times
- F**king take Northern Ireland if you’re so in love with it, Davis tells EU – The Daily Mash
- GDP up by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.7% in the EU28 – Product – Eurostat – European Union
- Euro burns past $1.20 as ECB signals stimulus slowdown – Reuters
- UK Brexit minister says ’good prospect’ of agreeing transitional deal with EU – Reuters
- Why is Bulgaria’s population falling off a cliff? – BBC
Asia:
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- Tillerson is working with China and Russia — very, very quietly – Washington Post
- Ex-Australian PM Says Diplomacy Might Work With N. Korea – Bloomberg
- China’s Bad Banks Show It Still Has a Big Bad Loan Problem – WSJ
- A Tokyo-listed company is spending over $300 million to get into bitcoin mining – QZ
- China agrees U.N. action, and talk, needed to end North Korea crisis – Reuters
- India army chief: we must prepare for simultaneous war with China and Pakistan – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Nearly 26,000 guns handed in since July in first national firearms amnesty since Port Arthur – ABC
- Police want to read encrypted messages, but they already have significant power to access our data – The Conversation
- ‘Something big has to change’: could Australia afford a universal basic income? – The Guardian
- Coal power subsidies? No thanks – just policy, please – The AFR
- Alcohol industry accused of using tobacco-style tactics to confuse cancer link – The SMH
- Australia’s killer flu: Calls for more immunisations as virus mutates – The SMH
- Record drop in Australia’s electricity emissions cancelled out by rises in other sectors – The Guardian
- How Tesla Will Lure Australians to the “World’s Biggest Battery” – Inverse
- Corporate veterans join APRA probe into Commonwealth Bank – ABC
- Liddell power station: five extra years could give government $1bn rehab bill – The Guardian
- The true cost of keeping the Liddell power plant open – The Conversation
- ‘Peter Dutton’s incompetence’: Immigration claws back leave over payments – Canberra Times
- WA State Budget 2017: ‘A tax on big business is a tax on us all’: CCI – WA Today
- Much of the data used to justify the welfare card is flawed | Eva Cox | Opinion – The Guardian
- Victorians agree: privatisations wrong – The Australian
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Labour sets 2050 net zero emissions target – Interest.co.nz
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Labour could form govt with Greens, Maori – poll – Interest.co.nz
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