Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why This Bull Market Still Has a Long Way to Go – Joe Fahmy
- How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management – Jirisan Capital
- Beware threat of low-quality debt and opaque shadow banks – FT
- How Currency Investors Are Bracing for a Full-Blown Trade War – Bloomberg
- Google Searches for Bitcoin Drop to Lowest Since October – Bloomberg
- Coinbase Accused of Cheating Consumers in More Ways Than One – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin exchange Coinbase launches the Dow Jones of cryptocurrencies – CNBC
- A new way to measure growth and development – VOX
Americas:
- Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser – NY Times
- How Trump’s trade war finally broke Gary Cohn – Politico
- Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says he never signed so agreement’s invalid – NBC
- Speech by Governor Brainard on navigating monetary policy as headwinds shift to tailwinds – Fed Reserve
- Fed’s Brainard Sees Rate Increases as Appropriate as Inflation Firms – WSJ
- The NRA and its allies use jargon to bully gun-control supporters – Washington Post
- How the Washington establishment is losing out to little-known Trump advisers on trade – Washington Post
- Will Donald Trump be president at year-end 2019? – Predict It
- Trump’s Tax on America by J. Bradford DeLong – Project Syndicate
- California’s Love of Cars Is Fueling Its Housing Crisis – Bloomberg
- In trade retaliation, Canada won’t wait for WTO’s blessing – Globe & Mail
Europe:
- Brussels and Paris to rebuff May’s Brexit hopes for City – FT
- May ’double cherry-picking’ on Brexit, says leaked EU report – The Guardian
- EU Raises Stakes for Trump With Tariffs Targeting GOP Heartland – Bloomberg
- Russian oil firms in talks with Iran on its oilfields: Novak – Reuters
- Italy’s populists are Juncker’s big headache – FT
- UK farmers caught between Brexit and changing consumer tastes – FT
Asia:
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- China Spends More on Domestic Security as Xi’s Powers Grow – WSJ
- China’s Economy to Overtake Euro Zone This Year – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Trade Plan Threatens to Derail Korean Security Talks – NY Times
- U.S. Considers Broad Curbs on Chinese Imports, Takeovers – Bloomberg
- Don’t blame China, Mr. President. Blame the robots. – Washington Post
- North Korea Is Willing to Discuss Giving Up Nuclear Weapons, South Says – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian gun lobby invests in rightwing parties in push to weaken reforms – The Guardian
- Negative gearing reforms could save A$1.7 billion without hurting poorer investors – The Conversation
- Banning drug offenders from accessing public housing sets ‘troubling precedent’ – The Guardian
- WA Liberals to face Chinese donor probe – The West
- Australian millennials are turning off their televisions in droves – The SMH
- Uber’s underpayment of drivers keeping it afloat, report finds = The Guardian
- Calls for NAPLAN review after report reveals no change in decade of results – ABC
- Scorched country: the destruction of Australia’s native landscape – The Guardian
- Turnbull government warns of ‘chaos’ as powerful super union takes shape – Canberra Times
- Labor sets ambitious new targets for women in Parliament, on public boards – Brisbane Times
- Energy crisis over? A blackout-free summer and power prices are falling – AFR
- Bupa tweaks controversial gap cover plan following public outcry – The SMH
- Health Minister orders investigation into health insurer Bupa after alarming announcements – The SMH
- Uber X drivers working for half the minimum wage, new report shows – ABC
- No contradiction on Adani: Shorten – SBS
- Waste collection suspended in two Victorian shires as recycling crisis deepens – ABC
- West Gate Tunnel planning approval blocked by Coalition, Greens in Parliament – ABC
- Sydney train chaos fears as Central prepares for ‘open-heart surgery’ – ABC
- ‘We apologise’: Melbourne warned of more transport pain – ABC