Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization – Visual Capitalist
- Could a Global Living Wage Put an End to Corporations’ ‘Race to the Bottom’? – The Nation
- Billionaire Boom: More of Them, With More Billions – WSJ
- The Great Moderation Never Ended – Marginal Revolution
- World’s witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn – The Guardian
Americas:
- Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in many U.S. states: report – Reuters
- Pharmacy Stocks Slammed On Signs They May Be Next To Get “Amazon’d” – Zero Hedge
- The Case for Keeping Janet Yellen – WSJ
- Trump Made the Swamp Worse. Here’s How to Drain It. – NY Times
- Elizabeth Warren: Don’t Let Big Banks Escape the Fed’s Scrutiny – Bloomberg
- Who Knew Trump Would Be a Weak President? – New Republic
- The Flip Side of NIMBY Zoning – City Lab
- Tax cuts are not worth the GOP’s soul – The Week
- Yet more reason for Republicans to start panicking about 2018 – Washington Post
Europe:
- Spain’s Lawmakers Vote to Seize Control of Catalonia – NY Times
- BlackRock Gives Macron Kudos Even as French Hold Back Their Love – Bloomberg
- Chaos in Catalonia as Separatist Leader Runs Into a Dead End – Bloomberg
- Draghi refuses to call end to ECB crisis measures – FT
- Germans Could Be Paid to Use Electricity This Weekend – Bloomberg
- EU Starts Brexit Plan B Work in Case of December Failure – Bloomberg
- Russia is pushing to control cyberspace. We should all be worried. – Washington Post
- ECB to Scale Down but Extend Bond-Buying Program – WSJ
- UK retailers cut jobs at fastest rate since 2008 – BRC – Reuters
- Britain raises heat on Cyprus amid Russian tax evasion claim – The Times
Asia:
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- China: All the President’s men – ECFR
- China’s Global Ambitions Could Split the World Economy – Bloomberg
- Japan Goes With Another Round of Abenomics – Bloomberg
- Trump sought dissident’s expulsion after hand-delivered letter from China – The Guardian
- South Korea economy posts fastest growth in seven years, brushes off geopolitical tensions – Reuters
- A Chinese Puppet Show for Markets – Bloomberg
- China Wants to Talk Less About Growth Targets – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Former PM Kevin Rudd directly blames Rupert Murdoch for the destruction of the NBN – Rewind Radio
- The AWU raid was clearly a political act – Canberra Times
- AFP launch investigation into media tip-offs ahead of AWU raids – The SMH
- Turnbull wishing he was a citizen of another country right now – The Chaser
- Students will suffer if Australia and New Zealand change tertiary fee agreement – The Conversation
- Australian ministers write to China to confirm approval of Carmichael mine – The Guardian
- ANZ bank CEO doubts ‘urgency’ of Treasurer’s corporate tax cuts – ABC
- Barnaby Joyce, senators forced to quit parliament in High Court citizenship decision – News.com.au
- Housing volumes could plummet and prices tank, Citi says – ABC
- ‘Robo-debt’ ramped up as Coalition refuses to end debt recovery program – Canberra Times
- RBA’s Guy Debelle calls for more data to improve economic forecasting – ABC
- New Zealand is about to ban foreigners from buying property there – The Independent
- Plenty to choose from but not a single sale at this week’s main Auckland apartment auctions – Interest.co.nz
- First home buyers’ share jumps – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Too old to be a millennial. Too young for Generation X. What am I? – The Times
- Let’s face it. HR is powerless to help women who are harassed. – Vox
- We’re in a ‘Dream Deprivation’ Epidemic – The Cut
- How natural is numeracy? =- Aeon
- Confusion in Catalonia – Atlantic
- Climate Policy Can Help Avert Modern Liberalism’s “Doom Loop” – Atlantic
- The Inequality Beneath the Sexual-Harassment Headlines – Atlantic
- Closest look yet at killer T-cell activity could yield new approach to tackling antibiotic resistance – Phys.Org
- Mating-induced sexual inhibition in the jumping spider Servaea incana (Araneae: Salticidae): A fast-acting and long-lasting effect – Plos.One
- ‘Tiny House Hunters’ and the shrinking American dream – Curbed
- Why Can’t Men Stop Sending Dick Pics? – Esquire
- The Wonder Drug for Aging (Made From One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth) – Bloomberg
- The Future Of Online Dating Is Unsexy And Brutally Effective – Gizmodo
- Why We Still Don’t Understand Sleep, And Why It Matters – Digg
- The liberal-left divide reshaping American politics – Guardian…it will reshape Australia too…
- Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens – Wired
- Can dogs really detect cancer? – Nikkei Asian Review
- In Antarctica, Two Crucial Glaciers Accelerate Toward the Sea – NY Times