Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hedge Funds Signal Trust in OPEC – Bloomberg
- Anger and confusion as crypto traders lose thousands in ’flash crash’ on $54 billion exchange – Business Insider
- Bitcoin billionaires: Winklevoss twins’ $11m bet on digital currency is now worth $1 billion – The Telegraph
- Tax Changes for Overseas Cash Could Ripple Through Markets – WSJ
- The global offshore system means we can’t trust basic economic figures – Quartz
- Myth Busting: Stocks Correlations and Active Investment Opportunities – Alpha Architect
- All You Need to Know About Bitcoin’s Rise, From $0.01 to $11,000 – Bloomberg
- Economic consequences of revolutions – VOX
- Currency Guru Taylor Dips Toe Into Bitcoin World for $6 a Month – Bloomberg
- Why Aren’t More Women and Minorities Studying Economics? – WSJ
- Adam Smith: is democracy always better for the poor? – Global Inequality
- MIT Study Suggests the U.S. Is Vastly Overstating Its Oil Output Forecasts – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin Goes to the Big Four: PwC Accepts First Digital-Currency Payment – WSJ
- Alarm Bells Sounding Over Gigantic Run-Up in Momentum Stocks – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Top Fed Official Sees No Need for Fiscal Stimulus at Time of Solid Growth – WSJ
- The Great American Single-Family Home Problem – NY Times
- Debt Concerns, Once a Core Republican Tenet, Take a Back Seat to Tax Cuts – NY Times
- Trump’s tweets should be taken as official statements, the White House says – NBC
- I’m ‘Unbeatable’ in 2020, Trump Declares – Bloomberg
- The Evolution of the American Pop Lyric – Medium
- Trump’s campaign: Big Macs, screaming fits and constant rivalries – Washington Post
- GOP’s List of Economists Backing Tax Cut Includes Ghosts, Office Assistants, Ex-Felons, and a Sprinkling of Real Economists – The Intercept
- The Men Who Cost Clinton the Election – NY Times
- White House official may have violated campaign finance laws – Mother Jones
- The Republican tax bill will exacerbate income inequality in America – VOX
- A Historic Tax Heist – NY Times
- Here’s what’s in the Senate tax bill – CNN
- Retaining Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax Could Undercut Research Credits – WSJ
- President Donald Trump Opens Door to 22% Corporate Tax Rate – WSJ
- The GOP Plan Is the Biggest Tax Increase in American History, By Far – The Intercept
- Analysis: More than 6,000 lobbyists have worked on taxes in 2017 – The Hill
- Is It Too Late for Robert Mueller to Save Us? – Slate
- Canada regulator ignored warnings on risky mortgage investments – Reuters
Europe:
- How Ireland Moved to the Left: ‘The Demise of the Church’ – NY Times
- Sharp drop in net migration of EU citizens to areas outside south-east England – The Guardian
- Europe holds all the cards in the Brexit talks – FT
- The EU Wants A Cast-Iron Guarantee From Theresa May On The Irish Border – BuzzFeed
- Progress in Brexit talks has lessened chance of disorderly exit – Reuters poll – Reuters
Asia:
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- ‘No Such Thing as Rohingya’: Myanmar Erases a History – NY Times
- Chinese Battery Champion Has Fully Charged IPO – WSJ
- China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People – WSJ
- Japan’s Biggest IPO of 2017 May Deliver Almost 30% in a Year – Bloomberg
- Beijing Hinders Free Speech in America – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Thousands of gay couples to become legally married overnight when law changes – The Age
- ‘What the hell’s going on?’: How NBN could become Canberra’s next big headache – The SMH
- Turnbull’s abrupt rejection of Indigenous voice spells end of bipartisanship – The Guardian
- ‘Boot him out’: Malcolm Turnbull hints Sam Dastyari could be under investigation – The Age
- As politicians don’t act, protesters from all walks of life stand with the men on Manus – The Guardian
- Pauline Hanson fails to declare $4500 Great Barrier Reef snorkelling cruise – Canberra Times
- Shades of Sir Humphrey in banking royal commission terms of reference | Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- YIMBY: The pro-development movement that’s made its way to Melbourne – Domain
- Increase company tax based on executive pay, Wayne Swan says – The Guardian
- ‘Preposterous’: NSW Rainforest damage goes unpunished after EPA fails to act – The SMH
- Prime Minister’s Department tries to hide Turnbull Government frontbencher’s cash grab – ABC
- Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Australians send a warning to Coalition MPs thinking about axing Malcolm Turnbull – The Age
- The future of housing – Interest.co.nz
- LVRs not the problem as the housing market comes under increasing price pressure – Interest.co.nz