Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality – Bain
- Cryptocurrency startup LoopX pulls exit scam after raising $4.5M in ICO – The Next Web
- Tech ETF Hit by the Largest Outflows Since the Dot-Com Crash – Bloomberg
- Record $23 Billion Flees World’s Largest ETF – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin Risks Crashing to $900 If Dot-Com Mania Is Any Guide – Bloomberg
- Short Vol Trade Lives! ETF at Heart of Turmoil Lures Record Cash – Bloomberg
- Economics and politics of monetary policymaking – VOX
- The Fed is officially in a nail-biting showdown with Wall Street – Business Insider
- Global Stocks Rise After Worst Week in Years – WSJ
- US 10-year Treasury yield climbs back to four-year high – CNBC
- Infrastructure Done Right – IMF
- Oil’s Bounce From Worst Week in Two Years Capped by Shale Fears – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin gobbling Iceland energy supplies – BBC
- ‘50 Cent’ VIX Trade Just Paid Off to the Tune of $200 Million – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Corker weighs his options as GOP frets about losing Tennessee – Politico
- Donald Trump’s controversial pick to run the 2020 census just withdrew – Mother Jones
- GOP Senate candidate’s parents max out donations to primary campaign of Democrat he hopes to unseat – CNN
- Trump’s Deficit Is Fine. His Budget Is Terrible. – Huffington Post
- The 22 agencies and programs Trump’s budget would eliminate – The Hill
- Trump’s Budget Proposal Projects Big Jump in Deficits – WSJ
- Here’s how a 5% mortgage rate would roil the US housing market – CNBC
- Trump Unveils $4.4 Trillion 2019 Budget Proposal – Bloomberg
- Pssst: Crime May Be Near an All-Time Low – Bloomberg
- Does TV bear some responsibility for hard feelings between urban America and small town America? – Brookings
- U.S. inflation expectations dip after run-up: NY Fed survey – Reuters
- Trump’s $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher – AP
- Who gets to dream? America’s immigration battles go beyond walls and borders. – Washington Post
Europe:
- German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal – Reuters
- ECB’s Record as a Bank Supervisor? Barely a Pass, Experts Say – Bloomberg
- The U.K. Is Down Since Brexit. Guess Who’s Up. – Bloomberg
- Brexiters’ blind-spot – Stumbling & Mumbling
- Britain has exported its political mess to Germany – FT
Asia:
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- Chinese Stock Investors Vent on U.S. Embassy Weibo Account – Bloomberg
- Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s ’10-Foot-Tall Baby’ – Politico
- The Pyongyang Olympics – WSJ
- How China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market – Bloomberg
- China Fintech Watchdog to Step Up ICO Oversight – Coin Desk
- Coincheck heist sheds light on Japan’s rush to create cryptocurrency rules – Reuters
- Chinese Tourists Are Taking Over the Earth – Bloomberg
- Japan eyes tighter leverage cap on forex trading – Nikkei Asian Review
- There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries—and China Is Winning – WSJ
- Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data – Nikkei
Trans-Tasman:
- The hypocrisy of Barnaby Joyce is stunning – The Age
- Deputy PM scandal deepens: Barnaby Joyce used $10k family travel bonus while having affair – The West
- ‘Deeply sorry’: Barnaby Joyce apologises to family, denies ministerial breach – SBS
- Barnaby Joyce has lost his moral authority within the National Party – ABC
- Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income? – The Conversation
- Coalition warned welfare overhaul could worsen poverty and unemployment – The Guardian
- George Christensen in backbench revolt against payday lending crackdown – The Guardian
- Tolled motorways deliver for Transurban as interim profits jump 280pc – The AFR
- Gonorrhoea ‘super-superbugs’ triple in six months – WA Today
- NBN’s HFC Network Is Costing Taxpayers A Whole Lot More Than Anyone Ever Imagined – Gizmodo
- Bank transfers in less than a minute as real-time payments rolled out – The SMH
- Who will replace Bill English? We profile the leading candidates – Interest.co.nz
- Robertson wants to see NZ workers work 400 fewer hours a year but produce more – Interest.co.nz