Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Apple made more profit in three months than Amazon has generated during its lifetime – CNBC
- In the Art World, Is $100 Million the New $10 Million? – WSJ
- A healthy re-examination of free trade’s benefits and shocks – The Economist
- The threat of secular stagnation has not gone away – FT
- Bitcoin Faces ’Death Cross’ After Falling Below $9,000 – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Inside the room: White House flare-up over McCain leak – Axios
- The public case against Trump – Axios
- ’Tricked by the devil.’ They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them. – Kentucky
- Trump Targets Foreign Auto Makers for Not Building Enough in U.S. – WSJ
- Why Economists Don’t Like the Mortgage Interest Deduction – St Louis Fed
- Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy – Washington Post
- These 95 Apartments Promised Affordable Rent in San Francisco. Then 6,580 People Applied – NY Times
- How Texas, Once an Economic Drag, Became the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Economy – WSJ
- US credit boom: red flag or investable asset? – FT
- Better Ways for Jeff Bezos to Spend $131 Billion – NY Times
Europe:
- On Brexit island it’s all getting a bit Lordships of the Flies – The Guardian
- Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatant – The Economist
- 17-year wage squeeze the worst in two hundred years – TUC
- Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren’t Happy about It – Scientific American
- Miners still missing a week after coal mine quake in Poland – The News
- Merkel: Europe cannot rely on US military assistance – EU Wire
- Rise of robots threatens to terminate the UK call-centre workforce – The Guardian
- Support for Catalan independence increases to 48% – Lavan Guardia
Asia:
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- China’s new train line to Iran sends message to Trump: We’ll keep trading anyway – Washington Post
- The Double Standard of America’s China Trade Policy – Project Syndicate
- Douyin is destroying Chinese millennials and Gen-Z kids – Global Times
- Taiwan’s laws on language are showing China what it means to be a modern, inclusive country – Quartz
- China’s multi-story hog hotels elevate industrial farms to new levels – Reuters
- Better off in a cave: Chinese count costs of apartments in anti-poverty campaign – Reuters
- How China is working hard to be less reliant on US farmers – CNBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Human Rights Commission pushes back against Peter Dutton bid for more powers – The Guardian
- With $30b in wealth, why is the Catholic Church struggling to pay for justice? – The SMH
- ABC reels as Coalition uses budget cuts to declare war on Bolt’s ‘leftist collective’ – The Guardian
- Big Battery ‘Stunning Success’: Saves SA Govt $35 Million in 4 months (cost $50M) – Renew Economy
- NBN: Price discounts for customers to end – News.com.au
- ‘Magic’ Melbourne skyscraper would be Australia’s tallest building – ABC
- Cigarette smoking: NZ lifts nicotine vaping ban as Australia holds firm – News.com.au
- “You can’t do everything”: Anthony Albanese defends Newstart silence – SBS
- The truth about wage stagnation – The Saturday Paper
- Ski season 2018 – burst or bust?? – ABC
- ‘Housing slump’: Mortgage lending plunges, further weakness expected – Domain
- Budget 2018: Human Services cuts loom, Coalition muscles up security – Canberra Times
- As Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison sell their ‘election’ budget, the prime minister is weighing up a poll that could be as early as August – The Saturday Paper
- India Keeps Australia out of the Malabar Exercise – The Diplomat
- The Coalition’s tax plan favours the rich and doesn’t solve bracket creep for middle-income earners – ABC
- It’s the neoliberal budget when Australians no longer believe in neoliberalism – The Guardian
- Research check: we still don’t have proof that cutting company taxes will boost jobs and wages – The Conversation
- ‘People fight harder for a share of a smaller pie’ – Interest.co.nz
- House prices cool, but are far from freezing – Interest.co.nz
- Central govt admits rates rises aren’t enough to help local govt – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Why I Escaped the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ – Chronicle of Higher Education
- They mock vegans and eat 4lb of steak a day: meet ’carnivore dieters’ – The Guardian