Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists – Washington Post
- Women in Cryptocurrencies Push Back Against ‘Blockchain Bros’ – NY Times
- The Man Who Claimed to Invent Bitcoin Is Being Sued for $10 Billion – VICE
- How Money is Spent by Different Income Groups – Visual Capitalist
- Warren Buffett: ’We’ve bought more Apple than anything else’ in the last year – CNBC
- Investors’ Zeal to Buy Stocks With Debt Leaves Markets Vulnerable – WSJ
- Goldman Says Stocks May Plunge 25% If 10-Year Yield Hits 4.5% – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The American Midwest is quickly becoming a blue-collar version of Silicon Valley – QZ
- Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence – NBER
- Corporate America’s new dilemma: raising prices to cover higher transport costs – Reuters
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Remove “Nation of Immigrants” From Mission Statement – The Intercept
- Americans Invented Modern Life. We Use Opioids to Escape It. – NY Mag
- Hungry Venezuelan Workers Are Collapsing On the Job – Bloomberg
Europe:
- EU Stokes Brexit Tensions With 100-Page Draft Exit Deal – Bloomberg
- Goldman May Sell Its $1.4 Billion New European HQ in London – Bloomberg
- UK living standards hit harder than thought by crisis – FT
- Brexiteers have handed Labour an open goal – Evening Standard
- An Alternative Brexit Polemic – Coppola Comment
Asia:
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- Xi Jinping May Be President for Life. What Will Happen to China? – NY Times
- Xi Jinping Thought Explained: A New Ideology for a New Era – NY Times
- Anbang’s Rescue Is China’s Too-Big-to-Fail Moment – WSJ
- Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit – The Guardian
- China is likely to enter another long period of severe dictatorship – Jerome Cohen
- U.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- The Prime Minister’s Mansion Has The NBN Now And He’s On The Highest Speed Plan – BuzzFeed
- Solar employs over 10,000 Australians – Echo
- Voters care more about money than sex, poll shows after Joyce affair – The Guardian
- Charities’ good work put at risk by ‘inept’ Coalition laws, Labor says – The Guardian
- Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack facing questions over income on investment property – ABC
- How politics works in Australia, and how to fix it – The Monthly
- Q&A recap: Tony Abbott still ‘consumed’ by loss to Malcolm Turnbull – The SMH
- Australia’s biggest coal state, NSW, also biggest electricity importer – Renew Economy
- Barnaby Joyce won’t rule out a comeback – ABC
- Sydneysiders don’t want a bigger population. They are voting with their feet – The SMH
- Chinese state media says Australia has become an ‘anti-China pioneer’ – ABC
- NBN Co refuses to disclose cheapest FTTP connection costs – IT News
- Aspiring doctors begin Macquarie’s ‘cash grab’ $250,000 medical degree – The SMH
- ‘Go west’: Outback Queensland tourism campaign coaxes coast-huggers to head bush – ABC