Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bringing Down High Debt – IMF
- IMF sounds alarm on excessive global borrowing – FT
- Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry – Bloomberg
- Global debt now worse than before financial crisis, says IMF – The Guardian
- Vix index surge revives manipulation concerns – FT
- Managers of $1 Trillion Lose Faith in Sanctions-Hit Bond Darling – Bloomberg
- Down $1 Trillion, World’s Worst Stocks Near Make-or-Break Level – Bloomberg
- Bringing Blockchain to the Coffee Cup – WSJ
- IMF Spots Trouble Ahead for the Global Economy After 2020 – Bloomberg
Americas:
- U.S. Pension Fund Collapse Isn’t a Distant Prospect. It Could Come in 5 Years. – Bloomberg
- Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley – 500ish Words
- Comey’s remarkable new admission helps explain how Trump won – Washington Post
- Cohen Would Turn Against President if Charged, Counselor Warned Trump – WSJ
- U.S. Debt Load Will Be Worse Than Italy’s by 2023, IMF Predicts – Bloomberg
- How the Tax Cut President Trump Loves Will Deepen Trade Deficits He Hates – WSJ
- US targeting NAFTA deal in three weeks: Sources – CNBC
- Venezuela bondholders inch toward $50 billion debt default showdown – Reuters
- San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble – NY Times
- Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy – Foreign Affairs
Europe:
- Eurozone investors race up chart of US debt owners – FT
- European Car Sales Weakest in Five Years – Bloomberg
- Each Brexit scenario will leave Britain worse off, study finds – The Guardian
- Emmanuel Macron Opens Up About Iran and His New Pal in the West Wing – Vanity Fair
- Brexit Britain slides down Europe’s economic league table – FT
- Europe’s venture capitalists embrace virtual currency craze – Reuters
Asia:
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- “There’s too many men”: What happens when women are outnumbered on a massive scale – Washington
- North Korea Talks: Here’s What a Pragmatist Could Hope For – Bloomberg
- China’s $1 Billion White Elephant – Bloomberg
- Surging China steel output defies Trump pressure – FT
- Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Pulls Out of Japan – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it – ABC
- Work for the Dole ‘should be scrapped’, say family of teen who died while working for the program – ABC
- Commonwealth Bank charged fees to dead clients, royal commission hears – The Guardian
- Recycling will be dumped by councils nationwide as costs blow out: experts – ABC
- The government owes voters an apology. Opposing this banking commission was wrong – The Guardian
- Barnaby Joyce says he was wrong to oppose a banking royal commission – ABC
- The financial traps revealed at the banking royal commission – The SMH
- Banking royal commissioner warns CBA for failing to answer questions about bogus financial advice fees – ABC
- Rental stress hitting town and country, threatening to put Tasmanian families on streets – ABC
- There are more jobs, but 730,000 people are still out of work – The Age
- Wayne Swan joins tax thinktank over fears cuts will ‘turbocharge inequality’ – The Guardian
- Is Australia Ready to Legalize Marijuana? Not Yet, It Seems – NY Times
- IMF outlook contains cause for celebration but a horrendous hangover is looming – The Guardian
- Government changes infrastructure funding goalposts to ‘get things moving’ in northern Australia – ABC
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‘The most significant tax move in several years’ – Interest.co.nz
- How has the Auckland Unitary Plan affected house prices? – Interest.co.nz