Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin on the bitcoin bubble and running a $125bn blockchain – FT
- Blackstone Group’s Assets Jump 22% to Record $450 Billion – Bloomberg
- What If Tesla’s Time Is Running Out? – Bloomberg
- Don’t Fear the Yield Curve—Just Yet – WSJ
- A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit – NY Times
- Big Consumer Brands Like Raising Prices, but It Is Getting Harder – WSJ
- VIX Rigging Talk Erupts on Wall Street After Another Wild Swing – Bloomberg
- The world learns to ignore Trump – Politico
- The Craigslist of Crypto Is Making Millions Where Bitcoin Is Needed Most – CoinDesk
- If the World Economy Is Looking So Great, Why Are Global Policymakers So Gloomy? – NY Times
- Crypto-Krona – Bloomberg
Americas:
- National Population by Characteristics: 2010-2017 . Census
- Giuliani says he is joining Trump’s legal team to ‘negotiate an end’ to Mueller probe – Washington Post
- Why Do Trump’s Allies All Talk Like He’s Guilty? – The Atlantic
- Trump’s Lawyer Forgets to Pretend Trump Is Innocent – NY Mag
- Read James Comey’s Notes On His Meetings With Donald Trump – Talking Points Memo
- Wells Fargo Said to Be Target of $1 Billion U.S. Fine – NY Times
- Wells Fargo Close to $1 Billion Settlement on Risk Management – WSJ
- Amazon vs Trump Goes Postal – NPR
- Silicon Valley’s scooter scourge is coming to an end – Engadget
- California Today: When Skyscraper Was a Dirty Word – NY Times
- Will New Steel Tariffs Protect U.S. – NY Fed
- How the Tax Cut President Trump Loves Will Deepen Trade Deficits He Hates – WSJ
- Fed Economists Say Tariffs More Likely to Kill Than Create Jobs – Bloomberg
- US targeting NAFTA deal in three weeks – CNBC
Europe:
- Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law – Reuters
- The U.K. Just Went 55 Hours Without Using Coal for the First Time in History – Bloomberg
- The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations – BuzzFeed
- Spanish now richer than Italians, IMF data show – FT
- The wrong Brexit: what happened to ‘Global Britain’? – The Spectator
- Banks Warn Sweden’s Central Bank to Stay Out of Retail Market – Bloomberg
- Carney: Brexit talks could delay rate rises – BBC
- Finland is killing its experiment with basic income – Business Insider
Asia:
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- China Quietly Rolled Out a Very Big Bang – Bloomberg
- North Korea Talks: Here’s What a Pragmatist Could Hope For – Bloomberg
- China’s $1 Billion White Elephant – Bloomberg
- China’s $1 Billion White Elephant (Sri Lanka port that no one uses) – Bloomberg
- Taiwanese willing to fight China – Taipei Times
- 5 Ways China’s Past Has Shaped its Present – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Elderly pensioner widow charged thousands for dud advice – Fairfax
- First Home Buyers Posing With ‘Sold’ Sign Acting Like They Had No Help From Parents – Betoota Advocate
- Michaelia Cash Could Be Forced To Release Report Into Work For The Dole Death – BuzzFeed
- AMP CEO Craig Meller quits over scandals – SBS
- Banking royal commission revelations ‘worse than I thought’, says former ACCC boss – ABC
- Scott Morrison won’t apologise for resisting banking inquiry – The Guardian
- Do men suffer too much gender prejudice in part-time work? – The SMH
- Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it – ABC
- To reduce inequality in our schools, make them less socially segregated – ABC
- Low-carb beer no better for your waistline than standard beer, cancer council says – ABC
- Nothing to hide? Council set to introduce see-through bins-Yahoo
- Centrelink threatens to charge interest on $900m worth of welfare debts – ABC
- AWU raids: Investigation into AFP media leaks delays union’s challenge over Get Up donations – ABC
- Labor states clash with federal government over national emissions scheme – The SMH
- University in Australia: Many residents regret degrees, research reveals – News.com.au
- The slump in residential property sales may be bottoming out – Interest.co.nz
- Reforms needed to help RBNZ manage its regulatory obligations – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta – BuzzFeed
- A giant indoor farm in China is breeding 6 billion cockroaches a year. Here’s why – SCMP
- Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel – Aeon
- Scientists Genetically Engineered Flies to Ejaculate Under Red Light – The Atlantic
- Did neolithic man practise surgery on cows? – Guardian
- Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out – Guardian
Last weekend’s podcast (for anyone who hasn’t had a listen yet)
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