Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- President at Billionaire Steve Cohen’s Hedge Fund Firm Resigns – Bloomberg
- Wall Street’s tech love affair might end in tears – Reuters
- Fewer Americans Hold Cryptocurrencies Than You Probably Think – Bloomberg
- Alan Schwartz, Last Head of Bear Stearns, Taking on Wall Street Goliaths at Guggenheim – WSJ
- How the Bear Stearns Meltdown Wrecked Something More Valuable than Money – WSJ
- Truth Isn’t the Problem—We Are – WSJ
- Overstock Says SEC Crypto Probe Threatens Business – Bloomberg
- VW Just Gave Tesla a $25 Billion Battery Shock – Bloomberg
- The Population Bomb Has Been Defused – Bloomberg
- Why It Matters That the Libor-OIS Spread Is Widening – Bloomberg
- Toys R Us’s baby problem is everybody’s baby problem – Washington Post
- Bitcoin Is Worthless, Bubble May Pop Soon, Allianz Global Says – Bloomberg
- Hangover Grips U.S. Corporate Bond Market After Investors’ Binge – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin’s ‘Death Cross’ Looms as Strategist Eyes $2,800 Level – Bloomberg
Americas:
- How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions – NY Times
- 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach – The Guardian
- ‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower – The Guardian
- The Trump Tariff Layoffs Begin – WSJ
- Paul Krugman Explains Trade and Tariffs – NY Times
- Economists Worry a Trade War Could Derail U.S. Growth – WSJ
- Trump’s Lawyer: It’s Time to End the Mueller Probe – Daily Beast
- New York City Is Failing Homeless Students – NY Times
- This Is What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America – Bloomberg
- Trump Was Right About the Trade Deficit with Canada – Cepr
Europe:
- Britain Hints at Tougher Blow Against Russia: Stripping Tycoons’ Assets – NY Times
- Romanian court tells man he is not alive – The Guardian
- European Union releases 10-page list of potential targets for retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products – Washington Post
- EU starts retaliation process against U.S. tariffs – Reuters
- Macron, Merkel Pledge Push to Settle Euro Differences by June – Bloomberg
- Russia considers extra $17 billion bailout for two rescued banks – sources – Reuters
- Russian Eurobonds: The double sided Rouble hedge for Russia’s offshore capital – Molva
Asia:
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- Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women – Bloomberg
- China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains – The Verge
- Lawyers seek prosecution of Aung San Suu Kyi for crimes against humanity – The Guardian
- Here’s the real reason the Japanese don’t buy American cars – Mother Jones
- A lose-lose trade war looms between America and China – The Economist
- Americans’ favorable view of China growing – Axios
- Mr. Tan Goes to Washington: The Undoing of a $117 Billion Deal – Bloomberg
- Has China Overtaken the U.S. in Terms of Innovation? – St Louis Fed
- A Chinese shipbuilder accidentally revealed its major navy plans – Popular Scientist
Trans-Tasman:
- Tim Fischer warns ‘NRA-inspired’ firearms lobby targeting Australia’s gun laws – The Guardian
- Migrants and refugees stem population decline in regional areas – ABC
- Queensland Police in leaked bashing video were subject to dozens of brutality complaints – ABC
- The road to serfdom is paved with CEO bonuses – The Age
- Scandal hits Batman by-election with seniors phoned, told they didn’t have to vote – ABC
- Russian ambassador hits back over Australia’s response to spy attack – The Age
- Sydney real estate: Home sellers drop listed prices by up to 30 per cent – News.com.au
- We’re treating our most vulnerable worse than dogs – The SMH
- Gambling ads to be banned during Live sport – TV Tonight
- Banking royal commission hears of cash bribes, conflicts of interest and hidden fees – ABC
- SA Labor’s long run comes to an end – News.com.au
- Facing the facts: Hundreds of thousands homeless and unemployed – Independent Australia
- No longer ‘alternative’, mainstream renewables are pushing prices down – The Guardian
- Turnbull unveils $30m fund for Asean smart cities – Straits Times
- Offsets for emissions breaches prove Australia has a carbon market, Labor says – The Guardian
- Banks front up to royal commission – The Saturday Paper
- Immigration in Australia: Why debate is just left-wing racism – News.com.au
- Melbourne’s West faces dystopian congested future from population flood – Herald-Sun
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What might the RBNZ’s new Policy Targets Agreement look like? – Interest.co.nz
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