Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for 11 lost cities of the Bronze Age – Washington Post
- Myths of the 1 Percent: What Puts People at the Top – NY Times
- Greenhouse gases must be scrubbed from the air – The Economist
- “It’s a Ponzi Scheme”: Wall Street Fears Trump’s Deranged Tax Plan Means Economic Euthanasia – Vanity Fair
- The origins of the Industrial Revolution – VOX
- Tesla’s unfettered ambition will drain finances: analysts – Reuters
- Tesla is ’going out of business,’ says former GM exec Bob Lutz – CNBC
- Wall Street needs to start worrying about a key change in Fed policy – Business Insider
- Democracy Beyond the Nation – Project Syndicate
- The World’s Biggest Wealth Manager Won’t Touch Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- If QE was Mostly Placebo, What about the Unwind? – Marc to Market
Americas:
- Household debt rises by $116 billion as credit-card delinquencies pile up – Market Watch
- Withdrawing from NAFTA Would Hit 187,000 US Exporting Jobs, Mostly in Heartland – PIIE
- When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work – NY Times
- A Tax Provision That Would Exempt Mutual-Fund Firms but Not Individuals – WSJ
- The Republican tax bill contains a sneaky break for private jet owners – Business Insider
- Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Likely to Increase Trade Deficit – NY Times
- Tennessee’s Historically Low Unemployment Rate Isn’t All Good – WSJ
- Trump still loves polls – Politico
- Poll: 60 percent to blame Trump, GOP for ObamaCare problems – The Hill
- Why some people think medical marijuana is a key to ending the opioid epidemic – Indianapolis Star
- How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways – NY Times
- GOP is ’toast’ with Trump in control, Republican Flake says – Go
- The Trump Administration Is Making War on Diplomacy – NY Times
- A Great Migration From Puerto Rico Is Set to Transform Orlando – NY Times
- There’s room for competition in public health care – Globe & Mail
- Venezuela’s Debt: Is the Game Afoot? – Credit Slips
- From No Power in Puerto Rico to Living in a Car in Orlando – WSJ
Europe:
- UK health spending – Institute For Fiscal Studies
- The crunch is coming – BBC
- Germany supplants US as the country with the best global reputation – CNN
- Germany has way more industrial robots than the US, but they haven’t caused job losses – WEF
- The Brexit Veto: How and why Ireland raised the stakes – RTE
- Sweden proposes major corporate income tax changes – EY
- Brexit/Ireland conundrum – Long & Variable
Asia:
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- Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: Life inside the totalitarian state – Washington Post
- A Chicago trading firm is setting up shop in Singapore to dominate the bitcoin market in Asia – Business Insider
- Backing Big Brother: Chinese facial recognition firms appeal to funds – Reuters
- Chinese Communist Party propaganda has quite the Facebook presence – NY Times
- Chinese official media attacks U.S. media for “fake news” – Global Times
- China is on the hunt for aliens – The Atlantic
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens lay out ambitious plan: 25 seats over the next 25 years – The SMH
- Why universities should never get to set their own fees – The SMH
- We need freedom from religion, not freedom of religion – The SMH
- PM slams Palaszczuk’s ‘lazy, green left government’ in LNP campaign launch – SBS
- The multicultural communities that voted ‘yes’ – The SMH
- Millions of trees at risk from rising temperatures – UQ
- Queensland election: What the leaders should do if there is a hung parliament – ABC
- Queensland election: Parties roll out boxer and Prime Minister to help launch campaigns – ABC
- Australia: Liberals strike Queensland election deal with One Nation – WSWS
- Immigrants And Spies – Huffington Post
- Government shields directors after taxpayers foot $1.6bn wage dues – The Guardian
- Poll shows Qld Labor may return to government – Sky News
- Is the smashed avocado generation the ‘unlucky’ generation? – Interest.co.nz
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Why we changed Government – Interest.co.nz
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Have house price expectations capitulated? – Interest.co.nz
- Auckland property market about to be hit by a revaluation tsunami – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Robert Mugabe ’will be removed as president tomorrow’ – The Independent