Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Twitter is reportedly planning to ban cryptocurrency ads – The Verge
- Trump’s plan that would blow up the WTO – Axios
- A Deeper Look at the Flattening Yield Curve – WSJ
- Oil Hedge Fund BBL Looks to Launch $1 Billion Macro Fund – WSJ
- Investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies face hefty tax bills – The Guardian
- The Battery Boost We’ve Been Waiting for Is Only a Few Years Out – WSJ
- The Mountain West Is Experiencing A Second Gold Rush. This Time They’re Mining Bitcoin. – BuzzFeed
Americas:
- How Millennials today compare with their grandparents 50 years ago – Pew Research
- Welcome to Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite – The Guardian
- Trump made senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements. They’re supposed to last beyond his presidency. – Washington Post
- Newly Emboldened, Trump Says What He Really Feels – NY Times
- The Next Housing Crisis: A Historic Shortage of New Homes – WSJ
- Democrats Regain Double-Digit Advantage Over GOP in Voter Sentiment Poll – WSJ
- Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis? – The Atlantic
- Digital Economy Has Been Growing at Triple the Pace of U.S. GDP – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Helicopter money is “a real possibility,” says Czech central banker – Positive Money
- With Putin’s reelection, expect rising tensions with the West – Washington Post
- Putin wins another six years at Russia’s helm in landslide victory – Reuters
- Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it. – Washington Post
- Russia’s Putin wins by big margin – BBC
- Global Britain or globaloney – The Economist
- Russian elite must reveal how they paid for UK property, say MPs – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Trade Associations to Petition Trump Administration to Halt China-Tariff Plans – WSJ
- Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women – Bloomberg
- Yi Gang Picked to Take Helm of People’s Bank of China – WSJ
- Yi Gang to Become China’s Central Bank Governor, WSJ Reports – Bloomberg
- China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- How the tax system slugs our youth – ABC
- Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has temporarily employed the former Minerals Council boss Brendan Pearson to help lobby the crossbench over company tax cuts. – SBS
- Tony Abbott says Peter Dutton is ‘absolutely right’ about white South African farmers – The SMH
- Commonwealth Employment Service: The pitfalls of privatisation – Independent Australia
- Job hunting? These are the questions prospective employers cannot ask you in an interview – ABC
- Banking royal commission hears ANZ mortgages risk breaching responsible lending laws – ABC
- Australia to offer highly-skilled migrants new visa for jobs over $180,000 – SBS
- Aussie Broadband pushes telcos to share NBN data – The SMH
- Bill Shorten emboldened as scope emerges to soften Labor $59 billion revenue grab – Brisbane Times
- FIFO mental health study sparks social media backlash – ABC
- Cancer Council warns over cancer causing ‘myths’ – ABC
- RBA should be clearer about when and how interest rates will change – ABC
- The Batman campaign was the final straw: Why I quit the Greens – The Age
- Australian government seeks copyright fair use feedback – ZdNet
- Death traps: Push to phase out cars made before 2002 – WA Today
- Australians in the dark about when to put on sunscreen – ABC
- Turnbull government seeking result on company tax cuts by the end of the month – Canberra Times
- Pre-fabricating a brighter future – Interest.co.nz
- Positive, but not game-changing – Interest.co.nz
