Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bitcoin Futures Promise Wild Ride for Risk-Loving Traders – WSJ
- The battle in AI – The Economist
- Enron 2.0? ECB, Global Banks On The Hook For $21 Billion In Steinhoff Implosion – Zero Hedge
- Bitcoin mining ’is causing electricity blackouts’ – Mail Online
- Bitcoin Billionaire Winklevoss Sees Surge of as Much as 20 Fold – Bloomberg
- 1,000 People Own 40% of the Bitcoin Market – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin On Path To Functioning Just Like Real Currency After Small Concentration Of People Acquire Majority Of It – The Onion
- Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money – The Onion
- Bitcoin Is the Most Obvious Bubble of the Modern Era – The Atlantic
- The Market Shock No One is Ready For – The Reformed Broker
- Outlook 2018: The Bull Market’s Next Act – Barron’s
- Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy – NY Times
- Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be – The Outline
Americas:
- The Mueller Investigation Is in Mortal Danger – NY Mag
- Americans are drowning in debt. Here’s where they have it the worst. – Washington Post
- Why are America’s farmers killing themselves in record numbers? – The Guardian
- GOP Tax Bill: Key Lawmakers to Watch – Washington Post
- Tax Plans May Give Your Co-Worker a Better Deal Than You – NY Times
- Home Depot just showed who will gain the most from corporate tax cuts – Washington Post
- Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation – NY Times
- Obama: Protect democracy or risk taking path of Nazi Germany – AP
- San Francisco to robots: Don’t crowd our sidewalks – Medium
- Latin America’s Wealthy Families Are Buying Up Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052. – NY Times
Europe:
- RBS scandal silence was normal, says Financial Conduct Authority – The Times
- Populist Brexit promises have proved empty – Washington Post
- Brexit and the Irish border: How the Deal was Salvaged – RTE
- The Bulgarian Government Is Sitting on $3 Billion in Bitcoin – Coin Desk
- Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has just saved the UK from the madness of a hard Brexit – Irish Times
- There might be one good thing about a hard Brexit after all – Washington Post
- Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans ’Foreign Waste’ – NPR
- This is how nuclear war with North Korea would unfold – Washington Post
- Jailed for a Text: China’s Censors Are Spying on Mobile Chat Groups – WSJ
- China’s Banks Need More Capital After Credit Boom, IMF Says – Bloomberg
- In mortgage fraud frenzy, China’s banks face a hidden danger – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- The Couple Who Pledged To Divorce If Marriage Equality Was Legalised Have Chickened Out – Junkee
- ATO data dump: naming and shaming the nation’s biggest tax cheats – Michael West
- NSW employers no longer able to discriminate against pregnant job seekers – ABC
- Despicable actions towards tourist workers makes me angry and ashamed to be Australian – The Guardian
- Mark Dreyfus draws Josh Frydenberg back into citizenship saga, divides Labor Party – ABC
- China’s ban on foreign rubbish leaves Australian recycling industry eyeing opportunities – ABC
- Inland rail: Can the freight line truly be ‘nation building’? – ABC
- Labor’s Kristina Keneally still the ‘underdog’ in Bennelong – SBS
- Renewable rights: Report labels government plan for burial plots ‘disrespectful’ – The SMH
- ‘The poster boy for corporate tax dodging’: ExxonMobil has paid no tax for three years – News.com.au
- Farewell Lateline: Former hosts reflect on 28 years of stories – ABC
- AGL rebuffs Malcolm Turnbull and commits to ditching Liddell power station for gas, wind and solar – The Age
- Banning foreign political donations doesn’t go nearly far enough – Canberra Times
- Malcolm Turnbull declares he will ‘stand up’ for Australia in response to China’s criticism – China power – ABC
- Blaming High Court for citizenship debacle deepens the public’s mistrust – Canberra Times
- ASIO identifies political candidates with links to China – SBS
- Tax evasion, tax avoidance or just a simple mistake? – Interest.co.nz