Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Radical Markets – Princeton Uni
- Back to school: top economists on what their subject needs to learn next – Prospect Magazine
- Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain – FT Alphaville
- School Is Expensive. Is It Worth It? – WSJ
- Is College Worth the Cost? – A Wealth of Common Sense
- How a volatility virus infected Wall Street – Financial Times
- Car Dealerships Face Conundrum: Get Big or Get Out – WSJ
- Will Self-Driving Cars End The Big Automakers? – Forbes
- Women Are Winning in Bond Funds. Why Aren’t There More of Them? – Bloomberg
- Economists understand little about the causes of growth – The Economist
- GE takes $4.2 billion charge, restates earnings – Reuters
- Fiscal Rules: Make them Easy to Love and Hard to Cheat – IMF
- What’s the point of investing in bonds? – Evidence-based Investor
- Why Bitcoin and Markets Behave Like Diseases – Bloomberg
- Economics renames itself to appeal to international students – The Economist
- Bitcoin is a bubble and a perfect example of ‘faddish human behavior,’ says Robert Shiller – CNBC
- Tesla May Be the Most Hated (and Loved) Stock in America – Bloomberg
- Global Debt at Record Level – Bloomberg
- OPEC Near ‘Mission Accomplished’ as Oil Glut Vanishes, IEA Says – Bloomberg
- What Happened to the Oil Glut? – WSJ
- World’s Longest Trial of Negative Rates Shows Lots of Positives – Bloomberg
- The leverage ratio as a macroprudential policy instrument – VOX
Americas:
- Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency – New Yorker
- In his new book, James Comey calls for ‘ethical leadership.’ But does he live up to it? – Washington Post
- Trump Favorable Rating Dips – Gallup
- How the American economy conspires to keep wages down – The Guardian
- The Plunging Morale of America’s Service Members – The Atlantic
- Zillow Intends to Buy and Flip Homes – WSJ
- America’s Future No Longer “Looks Sustainable In A Market Context”: Deutsche – Zero Hedge
- Trade war backfire: Steel tariff shrapnel hits U.S. farmers – Reuters
- The Longest Expansions in U.S. History – Calculated Risk
- Fed’s Kashkari: We’re not going to keep interest rates low to help the government run up debt – CNBC
Europe:
- How to Solve the Greek Debt Problem – PIIE
- LSE Hires Goldman’s Schwimmer as CEO, Ending Long Search – Bloomberg
- Roman roads and persistence in development – VOX
- UK businesses call for post-Brexit alignment with EU regulations – FT
Asia:
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- China’s Communists Rewrite the Rules for Foreign Businesses – NY Times
- China Is Nationalizing Its Tech Sector – Bloomberg
- US Treasury declines to name China a currency manipulator, adds India to watchlist – FT
- Indian crypto exchange loses $3.5m in customers’ bitcoin – FT
- The $105 Billion ‘Ghost Stock’ Blunder Rocking Markets in Korea – Bloomberg
- White House Plans to Escalate Trade Pressure on China – WSJ
- The leverage ratio as a macroprudential policy instrument – VOX
- China Adds Flesh to Bones of Plan for Big Bang Financial Opening – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian scientists pioneer new way to hear black holes colliding across the universe – ABC
- Commonwealth Games protesters display ‘stupidity’ for torching countdown clock, Beattie says – ABC
- Couch surfing and living in cars: 11,000 tertiary students are homeless – The SMH
- The struggle for Melbourne: has the world’s ‘most liveable’ city lost its way? – The Guardian
- Is something more sinister at play in Australia’s low-wage story? – Canberra Times
- WestConnex: what NSW must learn from Victoria and Queensland – Michael West
- Australia needs to start recycling and reusing its own waste, says industry struggling under China’s ban – ABC
- Jericho bringing his mix of economics and politics. – The Guardian
- Australia’s destructive locusts – Australian Geographic
- Australia’s renowned secret spy base helping drive property prices in Alice Springs – ABC
- Australian children going hungry, report finds, with one in five kids missing meals – ABC
- Royal commission into police needed – The Saturday Paper
- The far-right’s creeping influence on Australian politics – The Conversation
- Urgent reform needed for wayward Tax Office – Canberra Times
- High-tech traffic cameras in Australia used to detect and fine drivers using cellphones – The Blaze
- Peak body to examine why international students are exploited at work – The SMH
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Just why is the Government copping flak over wanting lower debt? – Interest.co.nz
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What a ‘wellbeing framework’ means for migration – Interest.co.nz
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Other:
- Disneyflix Is Coming. And Netflix Should Be Scared – The Atlantic