Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why 2017 will go down as the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine – Washington Post
- World Bank President: Everyone Is Excited About Blockchain – Coin Desk
- How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market – Mainly Macro
- Why James Dimon and Larry Fink Aren’t Buying Bitcoin – WSJ
- A political shadow looms over the world economy – FT
- An important shift in the job market makes the mystery of weak wage growth less puzzling – Business Insider
- The spread of populism in Western countries – VOX
- A Decade Watching the Craziest Game – Collaborative Fund
- This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies – Bloomberg
- Millennials Are Over. It’s Gen Z’s Turn To Ruin Everything. – Buzz Feed
- Ten years after the crisis: Looking back, looking forward – VOX
Americas:
- Why Republicans can’t get anything done – NY Post
- Trump’s Tweets Are Damaging the Republican Character – National Review
- New California Fires Spread, Triggering Further Evacuations – WSJ
- Marijuana farms are burning in California wildfires – CNN Money
- U.S. puts contentious NAFTA auto demands on the table – Globe & Mail
- Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America – Bloomberg
- Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. – NY Times
- The G.O.P. Is a Mess. It’s Not All Trump’s Fault. – NY Times
- Puerto Ricans drink from hazardous-waste site – CNN
Europe:
- Britain’s economy has huge unused capacity – FT
- Britain’s former top civil servant just warned of the dangers of a ’no deal’ Brexit – The Independent
- In the contactless payment era, why is cash making a comeback? – The Guardian
- How Stalin Hid Ukraine’s Famine From the World – The Atlantic
- The 31-year-old who looks set to be Austria’s next chancellor – The Economist
- Emmanuel Macron: ’We Need to Develop Political Heroism’ – Der Speigel
- This is Deal or No Deal, Tory style. The prize is a cliff-edge Brexit – The Guardian
- No-deal Brexit: it’s already too late – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Reality Check: What would ’no Brexit deal’ look like? – BBC
Asia:
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- BMW wants to partner with this Chinese company to build Minis. – Handelsblatt
- Why Beijing Won’t Just Let the Yuan Go – WSJ
- China Credit Growth Exceeds Estimates Despite Debt Curb Vow – Bloomberg
- China Takes On Its New Tycoons – WSJ
- Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Holden assembly workers despair as last Australian car-maker exits manufacturing – The SMH
- North Korea threatens Australia with disaster if it continues to support US’ stance on Pyongyang – ABC
- Albert Namatjira’s family regains copyright of his artwork after Dick Smith intervenes – ABC
- ‘All eyes on the high court’: why the Coalition is preparing for the worst | Australia news – The Guardian
- Cutting sugar in soft drinks would save 155,000 lives and $8 billion: experts – The SMH
- Australian scientists believe HDL cholesterol limits heart attack damage – Health Times
- CSG lobbyists: untangling the web of influence peddlers – Michael West
- Lobbyist calls for Nationals president Larry Anthony to step down from lobbying firm – The SMH
- Gambling addiction: Enter the ‘zone’ where winning is a distraction – ABC
- Students spending $1 million more at the canteen than two years ago – The SMH
- SA Labor Party pledges to protect state-owned water and electricity assets from privatisation – ABC
- Private health insurance is just another way to rip off millennials – The Guardian
- House prices: Is buying an apartment a wise investment for first home buyers? – ABC
- Technology, smaller classes not the best way to spend Gonski money: report – The SMH
- Di Natale prepared to risk arrest to stop Adani – The SMH
- How to fix Australia’s embarrassing failure in electric vehicles – Renew Economy
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‘Outlook for Auckland house prices remains highly uncertain’ – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Tesla Fires Hundreds of Workers – NY Times
- Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory $TSLA – Mercury News