Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Another Company Surges After Announcing Plans to Get Into Cryptocurrencies – Bloomberg
- The Biggest Stock Collapse in World History Has No End in Sight – Bloomberg
- Brace Yourself for Another Nasty Capital Gains Season – Morningstar
- Global Butter Prices Triple As Shortages Hit France – Zero Hedge
- A Stock Market Where the Rally is Actually Deserved – WSJ
- Who is winning the geopolitics of trade – FT
- Global assets forecast to swell to $145tn by 2025 – FT
- Bitcoin mania has students flocking to crypto classes at Stanford and other top computer science schools – CNBC
- Bitcoin’s Market Cap Surges Past $100 Billion – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Kelly wants investigation into allegations surrounding Clinton – Axios
- Homes Are Getting Snapped Up at the Fastest Pace in 30 Years – Bloomberg
- Treasury plan to weaken capital rules has real economic costs – American Banker
- Bets on the Next Fed Chair: A History of Speculation Gone Wrong – WSJ
- Trump fumes at pharma for many reasons. This drug exec embodies them – STAT
- The Trump Deregulatory Juggernaut Is Rolling – WSJ
- House Panel’s Talk of Phased-in Tax Cut Counters Trump’s Wishes – Bloomberg
- Rent Is Eating Up a Record Share of Americans’ Disposable Income – Bloomberg
- We’re starting to see how tax reform efforts will fall apart – Business Insider
- Uber scrambles to head off Brazil bill regulating ride software – Reuters
- Trump expected to nominate Powell for Fed chair – Washington Post
Europe:
- Rise of the robot brickie: Automation could wipe out 600,000 construction jobs by 2040 – The Telegraph
- Britain asks for ’continuous’ talks to break Brexit impasse, as Germany plays hardball – The Telegraph
- Gordon Brown did not save the world but he saved the UK – The Guardian
- Google Blasts EU’s Untried Theories in $2.8 Billion Court Appeal – Bloomberg
- France, Land of Croissants, Finds Butter Vanishing From Shelves – NY Times
- Euro-Area Economic Confidence Surges to Highest in 17 Years – Bloomberg
- U.K. Carmakers Warn of Brexit ’Worst’ Case as Production Shrinks – Bloomberg
- UK’s pre-summit push to ’divide and rule EU 27’ impeded Brexit talks – The Guardian
Asia:
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- South Korea, China agree to normalize relations after THAAD fallout – Reuters
- Party’s Over? Chinese Markets Battered After Bout of Artificial Calm – WSJ
- Singapore Unveils Plan to Create 4,000 Finance Sector Jobs – Bloomberg
- China Bond Selloff Spreads to Stocks as Deleveraging Risks Mount – Bloomberg
- China Puts the Global Economy’s Health at Risk – Bloomberg
- Foreign Companies in China Get a New Partner: the Communist Party – WSJ
- In Xi’s new era, Chinese diplomacy will be a display of hard power – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Cryptocurrencies Raise “Significant Issues”: Australia’s Central Bank – cryptocoinnews
- Labor plans to force Australian mining companies to disclose taxes paid overseas – The Guardian
- Australian staff abandon Manus Island, leaving detainees inside – ABC
- Worse Than A War Zone: The Life-Threatening Medical Delays In Australia’s Immigration Detention Regime – BuzzFeed
- “Minister for Adani” is back – and pushing for mega coal mine and new coal generator – Renew Economy
- Greens seek answers over Yuhu-linked companies’ $30k donation to Liberal Party – ABC
- ‘Every clinical decision questioned’: Doctor accuses Border Force of exerting political influence on Nauru – ABC
- Avocado prices set to fall as fruit numbers smash record – ABC
- Adani: Townsville Council funds airstrip after 140 redundancies – News
- AFP charges John Kinghorn with fraud – The SMH
- China lifts import ban on Australian beef – SBS
- ‘I can’t conduct my business’: NBN complaints skyrocket – The SMH
- Peter Martin: Labor to open free trade agreements to scrutiny – The SMH
- Whyalla steelworks owner Sanjeev Gupta makes $700m power play in SA – ABC
- Slavery is a bigger problem now than when it was ‘abolished’ — and it’s happening here – ABC
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‘Foreign speculators will no longer be able to buy NZ houses’ – Interest.co.nz
…and furthermore…
- The corrosion of truth in these strange times is terrifying – Guardian, Richard Flanagan….superb read……has Western culture lost capacity to recognise a lie or to speak the truth without doubt?
- China tests new spy drones in near space ‘death zone’ – SCMP