Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Amazon says this is the best business book of 2017 – MarketWatch
- Humans Stealing Jobs From Machines – Forbes
- Why Interactive Brokers Founder Fears Bitcoin Futures – Barron’s
- Trump, Brexit and Echoes of World War I – Bloomberg
- We’ll never stop Brexit or Trump until we address the anger fuelling both – The Guardian
- The productivity slowdown and labour’s income share – VOX
- The digital wealth management revolution – VOX
- The Rot That Lies Beneath Some Index Funds – WSJ
- Bitcoin slides by over $1,000 in less than 48 hours – Reuters
Americas:
- Trump in the Age of the Strongman – NY Times
- Liberals Are Becoming Knee-Jerk Anti-Trumpists – NY Times
- Trump Team Begins Drafting Middle East Peace Plan – NY Times
- Trump slams former US intel leaders as ’political hacks’ – The Hill
- Trump’s ‘America First’ looks more and more like America alone – Washington Post
- Bill Gates buys big chunk of land in Arizona to build ’smart city’ – kgw
- Trump’s Pacific Trade Tear – WSJ
- TPP: Canada recruits Mexico to hold out for improved deal – National News Watch
Europe:
- Government confirms intervention of Russian hackers in Catalan crisis – Elpais
- Putin: Trump did not bring up election meddling – The Hill
- Barcelona rally urges prisoners’ release – BBC
- Full Transcript of Trump’s Remarks on Russia – NY Times
- Russia’s Brexit Subversion – The American Subversion
- Putin insulted by meddling claim – Trump – BBC
- Polish Nationalist Youth March Draws Thousands in Capital – WSJ
- Theresa May faces defeat by MPs demanding vote on final Brexit deal – The Guardian
- Boris Johnson met ‘London professor’ linked to FBI’s Russia investigation – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Trump to Asia: Unite on North Korea, but Go It Alone on Trade – NY Times
- How Facebook has affected ASEAN democracies – Rappier
- The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business – The Atlantic
- Trump Visits Vietnam, a Tiger Economy That Beats His Stock Rally – Bloomberg
- China Big Bang Moment Opens Banks, Funds to Foreign Control – Bloomberg
- Xi, Trump Offer Dueling Visions of Globalization at Asia Forum – Bloomberg
- China widens foreign access to its giant financial sector – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Citizenship crisis: Turnbull government reduced to minority after John Alexander resignation – The Age
- WA Liberal Senator Dean Smith to introduce same-sex marriage bill this week – Perth Now
- Malcolm Turnbull needs crossbench support to refer Labor MPs to the High Court over citizenship – The SMH
- Queensland election: Party donations revealed in new real-time electronic disclosure – ABC
- Privatisation gravy train rolls on – Michael West
- Crossbench to back bank royal commission – SBS
- New Zealand slams Australia over Manus Island refugee crisis – News.com.au
- Same-sex marriage arguments may not have swayed postal survey vote, survey finds – The SMH
- Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups? – The Conversation
- PM should stop preference deals between LNP and One Nation: ALP – SBS
- One Nation voters could deliver Qld to LNP – Sky News
- Darwin CBD to benefit from $10m hi-tech project spend – NT News
- Pretty vacant: 20,000 properties empty across inner Melbourne – The Age
- The neverending story of an election that could take out Malcolm Turnbull – The SMH
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NZ vs AU mortgage rates – Interest.co.nz
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A 3 step plan to boost banking competition in New Zealand – Interest.co.nz
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Pricing the use of transport infrastructure – Interest.co.nz
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TPPA deal done – Interest.co.nz
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