Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- There’s Nothing Conservative About Hawkish Monetary Policy – Forbes
- Investor anxiety and the markets: The big unease – Vanguard
- The Economy Is Humming. Bankers Are Cheering. What Could Go Wrong? – NY Times
- How CEO Stock Buybacks Parasitize the Economy – Evonomics
- Insurance Biggest Drag on S&P 500 Earnings over past Month – FactSet
- Capitalism’s bad incentives – Stumbling & Mumbling
- Forget Bitcoin. Have You Heard of IMFcoin? – WSJ
Americas:
- Sen Corker’s advice to GOP Trump haters: It’s time ’just to chill’ – CNBC
- Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’ – NY Times
- Corker says all Americans should be worried about Trump – Axios
- How the New Math of Gerrymandering Works – NY Times
- Demographic drivers in the Americas will reduce illegal immigration in the US – VOX
Europe:
- Far-right protesters give fascist salutes in Madrid – The Independent
- High steaks: the Vladimir Putin birthday burger that never existed – The Guardian
- EU playing a ’game’ over Brexit divorce bill and should reach ’speedy’ compromise, says Danish minister – The Telegraph
- It’s too late for Theresa May to save herself. But she can still save her party – The Guardian
- ’No deal’ Brexit planning ’is under way’ – BBC
- This is the real reason why the Tories can’t solve the housing crisis – The Independent
- The UK housing market’s perfect storm, and five steps to avoid it – The Guardian
- U.K. Productivity Falls as Economy Continues to Lag Behind G7 – Bloomberg
- David Smith, Economic Outlook: Still clueless on Brexit – The Times
- Germany on Edge as Far-Right Rises in Europe – Rick Steeves
- Goldman buys up school places for Frankfurt Brexit flight – The Times
- Labour pull five points clear of the Tories, as voters prefer Corbyn to May – The Independent
- Don’t count on our independent Bank to stop Brexit disaster – The Guardian
- Brexit has led to falling real wages in the UK – LSE
Asia:
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- Why Japan Wants Your Junk – Bloomberg
- Oh, Scrap: China, the Biggest Buyer of America’s Trash, Wants No More – WSJ
- Leroy Chiao, Chinese American astronaut, on making dreams come true – SCMP
- North Korean Embassies Scrounge for Cash – NY Times
- While the U.S. Talks of War, South Korea Shudders – NY Times
- Behind the Silence of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi – WSJ
- Inside North Korea, and Feeling the Drums of War – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Shorten to call for electricity market overhaul to favour consumers over generators – The Guardian
- Sad state of Australia’s broadband network – Stuff.co.nz
- Labor calls on Peter Dutton to admit defeat over doomed citizenship changes – The SMH
- The NSW government will move to weaken laws protecting Sydney’s water catchment to circumvent a court’s ruling that threatened fuel supplies to the state’s newest coal-fired power station – The SMH
- Govt appears to back down on clean energy – Sky News
- Victorian Opposition calls for ban on conventional gas drilling to be lifted – ABC
- Wealthy private schools set for funding windfall – The Age
- Verrender: Why the Aussie dollar is set for a dive – ABC News
- The hidden cost of the tap-and-go boom – The SMH
- Coalition losing ground in regional areas – Sky News
- GST system broken ‘beyond comprehension’, Productivity Commission finds – The SMH
- PC recommends GST ‘tweak’ but no overhaul – The ABC
- Pricing uncertainty makes ACCC press pause on key NBN agreement – Computer World
- Commonwealth Bank hit with class action in Federal Court – News.com.au
- Coal is not the answer to energy crisis, says Chief Scientist – The SMH
- DFAT boss warns international students to resist Chinese Communist Party’s ‘untoward’ influence – ABC
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NZ shell companies caught in Slovakian money-laundering probe – Interest.co.nz
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‘Policy is everything’ – Peters – Interest.co.nz