Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trading a calm market as volatility sinks to new lows – CNBC
- Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed – Ars Technica
- Paradise Papers: The Broken Heart of Africa – sueddeutsche.de
- Paradise Papers: Are we taming offshore finance? – BBC
- Paradise Papers: Apple’s secret tax bolthole revealed – BBC
- Three Ways to Reduce a Trade Deficit – PIIE
- What’s a Fair Price for Crude? – Bloomberg
- Can we solve “too big to fail”? – VOX Video
- A Reality Check on Stock-Market ‘Anomalies’ – WSJ
- All Of The World’s Money And Markets In One Visualization – Zero Hedge
Americas:
- Visualizing Household Income Distribution in the U.S. by State – Visual Capitalist
- Secret Service makes arrest at White House after tip man wanted to kill ’all white police’ – USA Today
- Nation To Wait For More Facts On Texas Shooting Before Doing Absolutely Nothing About It – The Onion
- 12 months later, Trump would probably still win the 2016 election – Washington Post
- After a Tough 2016, Many Pollsters Haven’t Changed Anything – NY Times
- CNN Poll: Trump approval at new low as Russia concerns grow – CNN
- Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth – SF Gate
- Tech, housing boom creates homeless crisis on West Coast – Apple News
- Influential think tank retracts analysis of GOP tax bill – Washington Post
- Finding the Good in the Republican Tax Plan – Bloomberg
- Senate Tax Bill Likely to Keep $1 Million Mortgage Cap – Bloomberg
- The Plot Against America’s 99% by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate
- Republican Tax Rewrite Helps Some Millionaires but Hurts Others – NY Times
- Fed’s Dudley Warns Against Overly Aggressive Regulation Rollback – WSJ
- Why the pundits are wrong on Democrats and immigration – The Outline
Europe:
- Estonia freezes resident ID cards due to security flaw – Engadget
- UK business demands Brexit clarity but May provides none – Reuters
- The Brexit vote has caused a significant rise in UK prices, especially food – LSE
- The Eurosystem – Too opaque and costly? – Breugel
- Euro-Area Economic Boom Spurs Fastest Job Creation in a Decade – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- China, Trump and the North Korean nightmare – FT
- Asia Can Make TPP Work Without the U.S. – Bloomberg
- US Must Get Back into the Game in the Asia Pacific – PIIE
- China is Finally Going After Click Farms and Fake Online Sales – Bloomberg
- China turns to WTO in aluminum foil dispute with United States – Reuters
- India’s Businesses Have Lost Confidence – WSJ
- China and Australia ink fintech deal to share information on new trends – CNBC
- Demonetisation: A resounding success – LiveMint
- Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong talks to TIME about life behind bars – Time
Trans-Tasman:
- Why the tax avoidance exposed by the Paradise Papers matters – ABC
- South Australia’s power now cheaper than coal-fired states – Ross Garnaut – AFR
- Cory Bernardi asks AEC to make dual citizens repay campaign funding – The Guardian
- Latest guardian poll on SSM survey has 86% response with 64% saying YES – The Guardian
- Liberal MP John Alexander must be referred to the High Court: Labor – The SMH
- This is how close the Government is to losing power over the citizenship debacle – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull says citizenship debacle could spark more by-elections and spell trouble for Government – ABC
- Inner-City Leftie Prepares Self For Annual Care About Equine Welfare Day – Betoota Advocate
- The Liberals’ Key Campaigner Just Got A Government Job – BuzzFeed
- Corporate lobbying a billion dollar business – Michael West
- Josh Frydenberg hits back at new citizenship claim – The Age
- Liberal stalwart and former green bank chief unloads on government’s ‘immoral’ climate stance – The SMH
- Adani Carmichael rail link: Why Adani may still get its $1 billion government loan – ABC
- NBN Co readies 1Gbps enterprise Ethernet service – IT News
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Welcome to Auckland’s growth party – Interest.co.nz
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