Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Elon Musk Revealed How Much Bitcoin He Owns – Time
- Warren Buffett Letter – Berkshire Hathaway
- Buffett says ’terrible mistake’ for long-term investors to be in bonds – Reuters
- Playing With $100 Billion, Warren Buffett Is Giant Trader of U.S. Treasury Bills – WSJ
- Paul Krugman Looks Back at the Last Twenty Years of the Macroeconomic Policy Debate – Brad DeLong
- SEC Cools a Red-Hot Crypto Market – Bloomberg
- The Rise of Tech Giants May Be Bad News for the Economy – Bloomberg
- Revised TPP faces obstacles on road to ratification – Nikkei Asian Review
- Why Decentralization Matters – Medium
- Why We Can’t Let Google Monopolize AI – Wired
- Private Equity: Overvalued and Overrated? – American Affairs Journal
- What Bitcoin Rout? Sales of New Digital Tokens Are Still Soaring – WSJ
- Foreign exchange interventions: Frequent and effective – Vox
Americas:
- The Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo tears it apart – VOX
- Hidden Profits In the Prescription Drug Supply Chain – WSJ
- This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like – The Atlantic
- The Mortgage Market Is Moving Into the Shadows – Bloomberg
- A sweeping new bill targets California’s housing crisis – VOX
- Why the Inflation Picture Looks Starkly Different for Businesses and Consumers – WSJ
- Prime-Age Men May Never Return to U.S. Workforce – Bloomberg
- U.S. Colleges Are Separating Into Winners and Losers – WSJ
- Everything Is Booming Except for Wages – Bloomberg
- Is Lack of Competition Strangling the U.S. Economy? – HBR
- Fed’s John Williams Sees Three or Four Interest-Rate Increases in 2018 – WSJ
- Is America a ‘Nation of Immigrants’? Immigration Agency Says No – NY Times
Europe:
- Money and monetary stability in Europe, 1300-1914 – VOX
- Europe’s Political Economy: Reading Reviews of Varoufakis’s Adults in the Room – Adam Tooze
- The Irresponsible ECB – Project Syndicate
- Europeans should stop whining about their appreciating currency – FT Alphaville
- Russian bobsledder who wore anti-doping shirt just failed a doping test – Yahoo
Asia:
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- Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears – Reuters
- U.S. prepares high-seas crackdown on North Korea… – Reuters
- U.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology – NY Times
- The rapid rise and fall of the Anbang empire – The Economist
- New York’s Waldorf Astoria is now controlled by the Chinese government – Quartz
- China’s Geely becomes Daimler’s top shareholder – Nikkei Asian Review
- Chinese Regulator to Take Over Anbang Insurance – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Poll predicts landslide Coalition defeat – Sky News Australia
- When schools look like resorts questions about funding must be asked – The Age
- Weekend penalty rates set to decrease: Full Bench of Fair Work Commission Decision on test case around penalty rates – FwC
- Nationals deny party leaked identity of Joyce’s sexual harassment accuser – The Guardian
- Parts of north Canberra flood after Sunday downpour of rain – Canberra Times
- Increased cancer risk from fizzy drinks – no matter what size you are – Pursuit
- Nationals MP George Christensen calls for an end to the Coalition – The Age
- Chinese-Australian council expresses concern over foreign interference laws – ABC
- Sydney light rail tests tram for first time as project grapples with construction delays – ABC
- SA election: Australian Conservatives launch nuclear dump idea and ridicule Elon Musk – ABC
- Insect population decline leaves Australian scientists scratching for solutions – ABC
- New evidence suggests we may need to rethink policies aimed at poverty – The Conversation
- Australia and UK must combat Chinese and Russian interference says Tory MP – The Age
- Labor edges ahead in Batman voter poll – The SMH
- The Suppression Of Clive Hamilton’s Book Demonstrates (Again) The Real Menace To Free Speech – New Matilda
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Build the rules, and the houses will follow – Interest.co.nz
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The boondoggle – Interest.co.nz
- Big fall in lower quartile house prices means housing – Interest.co.nz
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