Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bond Traders’ Respite From Flattening Curve May Prove Fleeting – Bloomberg
- Why should progressives force big cities to become even bigger? – Mother Jones
- Marx and modern microeconomics – VOX
- It’s Not 3% Yield That Threatens Stocks Going By 40-Year Pattern – Bloomberg
- Four Harvard Students Jump on the Crypto Hedge-Fund Bandwagon – Bloomberg
- With World’s Biggest FX Trade Shackled, Investors Get Creative – Bloomberg
- Oil Erases Gains After Trump Slams OPEC for Inflating Prices – Bloomberg
- What Bitcoin Is Really Worth May No Longer Be Such a Mystery – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Steel Tariffs and Wages (Painfully Wonkish) – NY Times
- Steel Tariffs Likely to Lead to U.S. Job Losses, Fed Economists Find – WSJ
- That Hissing Sound Is Optimism Deflating Under Trump’s Tariffs – Bloomberg
- Church of The Donald – Politico
- Economists are warning Donald Trump about tariffs with a letter from the 1930s – Quartz
- A U.S. recession ahead? Fed policymakers say not to worry – Reuters
- Gas prices will likely wipe out Trump tax cut gains for millions – Yahoo
Europe:
- Russian Farmer Alters Rural Economy With Virtual Currency, as Moscow Watches Warily – WSJ
- The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’ – BBC
- The eurozone economy: a nasty surprise in store? – FT
- Runners and riders in race to replace Carney as Bank of England chief – FT
- Why is the EU in no hurry for a trade deal? – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Carney: Brexit talks could delay rate rises – BBC
- Finland is killing its experiment with basic income – Business Insider
Asia:
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- China ‘Welcomes’ Mnuchin’s Interest in Traveling to Beijing for Trade Talks – WSJ
- China’s Economic Numbers Have a Credibility Problem – Bloomberg
- EU suspects tax fraud at China’s new gateway to Europe – Reuters
- China Quietly Rolled Out a Very Big Bang – Bloomberg
- North and South Korea are reportedly working to end their 65-year-old conflict – NewsWeek
Trans-Tasman:
- $3.5 billion budget boost from legalising marijuana, costing shows – The Age
- “Fraudulent bankers should be jailed, or made leader of Liberal party” says Morrison – Chaser
- Kelly O’Dwyer refuses to tell Barista what coffee she’ll have this morning – The Shovel
- One of the world’s largest cannabis companies is positioning itself for recreational marijuana use to be made legal in Australia – ABC
- Barnaby Joyce calls for changes to parliament rules that forbid working with partners – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull says he didn’t hold a banking royal commission two years ago because he wanted to ensure reforms such as penalties were in place first – SBS
- Banking royal commission: all you need to know – so far – The Guardian
- NBN Co accused of using Sky Muster as ‘dumping ground’ – IT News
- Banking royal commission: Labor asks Turnbull for compensation scheme – The Guardian
- Kelly O’Dwyer interview only drew more attention to Coalition’s bad call on banking royal commission – ABC
- An extra 1000 call centre staff will be contracted to help Centrelink answer the more than one million telephone queries from welfare recipients each week – 9News
- Law firm embroiled in AMP scandal reaps millions from taxpayers – New Daily
- ACCC boss to investigate allegedly ‘unfair’ Uber Eats contracts – ABC
- Banking regulators should be sacked, Tony Abbott says – The SMH
- ‘Largely preventable’ knee reconstructions up 70 pc among young Aussies – ABC
- In Sydney, Australia they’re paving roads with printer toner – CNBC
- How Australia’s education debacle is still creating victims – The SMH
- Being a property investor or house hunter makes Sydneysiders more supportive of foreign investment – The Conversation
- How ASIC went missing in action with the banks – ABC
- Number if Australians with tertiary education qualifications to plunge – The Guardian
- What is the problem with housing in New Zealand? – Interest.co.nz
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‘Luxury houses’ to be exempt from foreign buyer rules? – Interest.co.nz