Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Record $23 Billion Flees World’s Largest ETF – Bloomberg
- Dalio Causes Stir With $18 Billion Surge in European Short Bets – Bloomberg
- Special Investigation: The Dirty Secret Behind Warren Buffett’s Billions – The Nation
- Bitcoin Mania Triggers Miner Influx to Rural Washington – WSJ
Americas:
- Biden, in public and private, tiptoes toward a 2020 run – AP
- Another Plea From Fannie Mae – WSJ
- U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May `Spike’ on Deficit – Bloomberg
- Steve Bannon met with Mueller multiple times over the past week – NBC
- The 5 Biggest Losers From The 2018 Budget Deal Are… – Forbes
Europe:
- How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It – The Intercept
- The collapse of power-sharing in Northern Ireland shows the Good Friday Agreement has outlived its use – The Telegraph
- The Russian Indictments – WSJ
- Bitcoin gobbling Iceland energy supplies – BBC
- U.S. Strikes Killed Scores of Russian Fighters in Syria – Bloomberg
- Five Charts That Explain How European Banks Are Dealing With Their Bad-Loan Problem – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China – Zero Hedge
- A Chinese Company Has Conquered a Piece of America on Saipan – Bloomberg
- The China Reckoning – Foreign Affairs
- Chinese students are a potential threat – Daily Beast
- Seven Years Old and Kicked Out of Beijing – NY Times
- Could China be rebooting a nuclear doomsday device? – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Turnbull’s attack on Emma Alberici’s tax-cut analysis doesn’t add up | Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- Turnbull, Fifield and Morrison wrote to ABC boss before tax cut analysis was removed – The Guardian
- Former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey buys $8 million Hunters Hill mansion – Domain
- Joyce doesn’t deserve to be deputy PM – The SMH
- Controversial China book about Chinese interference in Australian society to be released next month – BBC
- ‘Lot of disquiet’: senior ABC staff angry over return of cabinet files – The Guardian
- ‘Shut it down’: Murray-Darling Basin Authority accused of cover-up – The Age
- Fresh food jackpot: how Woolies became the biggest pokie owner in the country – The SMH
- The truth about political donations: what we don’t know – Michael West
- It’s 20 years since privatisation lit the spark under South Australia’s livewire energy politics – The Conversation
- “Why would someone rent out their property at less than market value?” – ABC
- Morrison’s pursuit of Trump economics – The Saturday Paper
- No relief for workers as new enterprise agreements drive wages down – ABC
- Vic politicians receive big pay rise at your expense – The Australian
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The recent drop in migration levels may not last – Interest.co.nz
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Ardern addresses business community by tackling ‘elephant in room’ – Interest.co.nz