Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- When Doing Good Ends Badly for CEOs – WSJ
- Crypto venture firm Blockchain Capital is raising $150 million for two funds – CNBC
- Bernanke Adds Nuance to Independence Orthodoxy: Eco Pulse – Bloomberg
- Crypto Daytrippers – Bloomberg
- George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations – NY Times
- If AI is going to take over the world, it will need to learn to train itself – Tech Review
- Goldman Sachs Says Gold Is Better Than Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- A Fund Flows Theory for Value and Momentum Investing – Alpha Architect
- It sounds like a ’Goldilocks’ market to me: Expert – CNBC
- Junk-Bond Risks Cloaked by the Narrowest Trading-Range Ever – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The Las Vegas Shooting Is Still Very, Very Strange – National Review
- Paying For Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached From Construction Costs? – Build Zoom
- Americans aren’t convinced good times will last long if you look at how they spend – Market Watch
- No one, not even Trump, knows who the next Fed chair will be – CNBC
- Mexico tech industry benefits from U.S. anti-immigration stance – Reuters
- Hospital ship empty as ill Puerto Ricans suffer – CNN
- As Nafta Tension Mounts, Retailers Warn of Economic Catastrophe – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests during election – The Guardian
- Costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects – OUP
- Inflation climbing to a five year peak is damning indictment of Tories – Mirror Online
- UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance – Tech Crunch
- Norway Wants To Cut Generous Electric Car Incentives And Impose A “Tesla Tax” – Car Scoops
- With evidence of a failing Brexit, who needs prophecy? – The Guardian
- ECB’s Constancio Says Time to Take Bubble-Bursting ’More Seriously’ – NY Times
Asia:
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- Bitcoin gets official blessing in Japan – FT
- North Korea Is Playing a Longer Game Than the U.S. – Bloomberg
- Corruption Is the Party’s Biggest Threat, China’s Xi Tells Congress – Bloomberg
- This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like – Buzz Feed
- As Party Gathers, Xi Jinping Displays a Firm Grip on Power – NY Times
- Coming of age in an era of prosperity: Meet China’s ’bubble generation’ – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Bob Brown wins high court challenge to Tasmanian anti-protest laws – The Guardian
- Crown Casino ‘deliberately tampered’ with poker machines, former staff allege – ABC
- Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia’s species – The Guardian
- State Labor premiers savage Malcolm Turnbull’s energy policy, setting up a COAG brawl – The SMH
- There are now no suburbs left in Sydney with a median house price under $500,000 – Domain
- Web of Australian Adani solar companies leads to offshore tax havens – The Guardian
- Drug-testing welfare recipients will stigmatise poor, UN official says – The Guardian
- The government’s energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal’s role – The Conversation
- Rio Tinto and former bosses charged with fraud by US regulator over Mozambique coal investment – ABC
- Here’s what’s actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it’s not young people dropping off) – The Conversation
- Sydney private schools failed to support bullied, abused students, royal commission finds – ABC
- Lenders brace for $21 billion interest-only blow-out as expired fixed terms are renegotiated – AFR
- Lightweight plastic bags to be banned in Victoria – The Age
- Netflix says Australians are ‘binge-racing’ through entire seasons in one day – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull’s national energy guarantee plan masks a carbon price – The Age
- Fact Check: Have electricity prices dropped $550 since the carbon tax was abolished? – ABC
- Forget the detail, our impatience may get Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee across the line – ABC
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NZ First pledges announcement on govt Thursday afternoon – Interest.co.nz
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Delays a concern for housing market – Interest.co.nz