Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A Sidelined Wall Street Legend Bets on Bitcoin – New Yorker
- The Great Blackstone Swaps Saga Just Became a Whole Lot Crazier – Bloomberg
- Hedge Funds Turn Bearish on Tech Giants – WSJ
- This Chart Could Be a Bad Omen for Markets – Bloomberg
- Yield Curve Is Entering the Danger Zone – Bloomberg
- How Blockchain Is Threatening to Kill the Traditional Utility – Bloomberg
- Equity Hedge Funds Must ‘Put Up or Shut Up’ With Market Volatility – Bloomberg
- Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future – Medium
- Ray Dalio Says Odds Are Rising for Trade and Other Types of Wars – Bloomberg
- Bond Traders Are About to Grasp the Magnitude of the Treasuries Deluge – Bloomberg
- The Big Question for Markets: Is There a Kudlow or Powell ‘Put’? – NY Times
Americas:
- Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose – Bloomberg
- Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion in 2020 – NY Times
- The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap – NY Times
- The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028 – CBO
- A debt crisis is coming. But don’t blame entitlements. – Washington Post
- Silicon Valley’s Astronomical Housing Price Creates a Problem for Startups – NY Observer
- Consumer Credit May Weigh on Economy – WSJ
- The US Employment Rate Has Returned to Its Pre-Recession Level Adjusted for Aging – PIIE
Europe:
- Russia’s Richest Lose $16 Billion in Selloff Over U.S. Sanctions – Bloomberg
- Russian Stocks Take Worst Hit Since Crimea on Sanctions – Bloomberg
- Russian Markets Slide as U.S. Ups Ante With Worst Sanctions Yet – Bloomberg
- The complete failure of the Brexit project – Mainly Macro
- Europe Caught in the Middle as Trump Threatens China – NY Times
- German exports post biggest drop since 2015 – Reuters
Asia:
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- China’s president promises to cut auto import tariff – AP
- China Is Studying Yuan Devaluation as a Tool in Trade Spat – Bloomberg
- China blames U.S for trade frictions, says negotiations currently impossible – Reuters
- China Now Has the Most Valuable AI Startup in the World – Bloomberg
- Disciplining China at the WTO – Cato Institute
- Japan’s economic miracle – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Gas company court ruling sounds a warning, lawyer says – ABC
- NAB linked to investigation into multi-million-dollar corporate fraud – ABC
- Home prices predicted to fall with Melbourne and Sydney units leading – ABC
- Business conditions fall from record high after Trump’s tariff announcement: NAB – ABC
- High ASIC company search fees ‘might be costing taxpayers billions’ – ABC
- Government plays matchmaker with landlords and low-income renters – ABC
- ATO denies alleged unethical cash grabs – ABC
- Government plans new tram route for Melbourne’s south-east – ABC
- China eyes Vanuatu military base in plan with global ramifications – The Age
- Australian university discovers students living in campus library – ABC
- Tree clearing, not urban sprawl, wiping out koalas in Queensland, WWF says – The Guardian
- Australian Tax Office: Shorten promises probe into alleged unethical tactics, toxic culture – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull’s Newspoll strategy backfired, making him a bigger target – ABC
- England expects 40% of new housing developments will be affordable, why can’t Australia – ABC
- International students should have no work rights: Pauline Hanson – SBS
- Bill Shorten doesn’t deny saying he would rip up Adani’s licence if he becomes PM – The SMH
- Why Liddell is likely to close in 2022, and why you shouldn’t care – The Guardian
- Sonnen solar battery system reduces Sydney family’s power bill to fixed monthly fee – News.com.au
- Victoria’s brown coal power plants undermining reliability of national grid – TAI
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Shaw touts potential changes to Govt’s debt target – Interest.co.nz
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New govt business confidence blues yet to blow over – Interest.co.nz
- Is Australia facing its Minsky moment? – Interest.co.nz