Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Innovation, Disruption, and the Illusion of Value – Fortune Financial Advisers
- Drivers of pension reform measures in the OECD – VOX
- Bitcoin briefly drops 15% in rocky weekend amid controversy over digital currency’s future – CNBC
- Bitcoin Plunges 29% From Record High – Bloomberg
- Machines Will Do Shady Things in the Markets Too – Bloomberg
- The ‘tiny little problem’ with Chicago economics – RWER
- Bond Traders Brace for Inflation Data That Could Rattle the Fed – Bloomberg
- Assessing the incidence of value-added taxes – VOX
Americas:
- In Alabama, Republican voters stand by Roy Moore – NBC News
- Trump won, and Northam crushed Gillespie. Why believe polls ever again? – Washington Post
- No Room for America Left in Those Jeans – NY Times
- The GOP Has Done the Impossible: Make Tax Cuts Unpopular – NY Mag
- The Senate Bill Really Is Regressive – Medium
- At the SEC, Whistleblowers Blow Whistle on Watchdog – WSJ
Europe:
- Former intelligence officials say Trump is being manipulated by Putin – Reuters
- ‘White Europe’: 60,000 nationalists march on Poland’s independence day – The Guardian
- Russia feels growth limits again as economic rebound seen slower – Gulf Times
- Europe’s four freedoms are its very essence – FT
- British Lawmaker Advises Investors To Take Their Money Out Of The UK – Forbes
- EU planning for collapse of Brexit talks, says Michel Barnier – The Guardian
- EU ’preparing for possible talks collapse’ – BBC
- The Observer view of Britain’s shambolic Brexit negotiations – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Backing Big Brother: Chinese facial recognition firms appeal to funds – Reuters
- Did China’s Xi just take on the role as guardian of globalization? – MarketWatch
- Breathing New Delhi’s air right now is the equivalent of smoking 45 cigarettes a day – WEF
- Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U.S. – WSJ
- China’s economic growth and rebalancing and the implications for the global and euro area economies – EU
Trans-Tasman:
- Jacqui Lambie may resign from Parliament within 24 hours – The SMH
- Our institutions go hard after welfare cheats, but they privilege the rich – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull is at his weakest and the conservatives are circling – ABC
- Prominent Australian academic says he has been silenced by Chinese Government – China power – ABC
- Author vows book exposing Chinese influence will go ahead after publisher pulls out – The Guardian
- Queensland election: Deputy Premier Jackie Trad’s seat under threat from Greens, poll shows – ABC
- Hazelwood coal mine operators to stand trial over massive fire in Latrobe Valley – ABC
- Cultural Marxism – the ultimate post-factual dog whistle – The Age
- Greens back Turnbull’s move to refer Labor MPs to High Court – ABC
- ABC restructure: biggest shake-up in broadcaster’s history to be revealed – The Guardian
- Jelena Dokic’s autobiography leaves those who watched abuse unfold with harsh truth – ABC
- Medibank to dump fossil fuel holdings over climate health fears – Herald-Sun
- Australia’s property sector has nine months to prepare itself – Domain
- Big projects like the Adani mine won’t transform regional Queensland – ABC
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‘A heightened chance of a growth wobble’ – Interest.co.nz
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Funding of growth infrastructure ‘biggest priority for councils’ – Interest.co.nz
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