Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business – FT
- Landmark bond sales hit by emerging markets downturn – FT
- Snoop Dogg, Dorsey Bring Crypto to the Masses – Bloomberg
- The State of Cryptocurrency Mining – Sia Tech
- So You Want to Be a Hedge Fund Star? – Barron’s
- A 40-Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy Gets Revived by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett – HBR
- The truth about Tulip Mania – BBC
- Gas Is Headed for $3. What That Means for the U.S. Economy – WSJ
- Why the Buyback Boom Is Bullish for Investors – Barron’s
- Globalisation, government popularity, and the Great Skill Divide – VOX
Americas:
- White House leakers leak about leaking – Axios
- The Strange Cocoon of Donald Trump and Sean Hannity – NY Mag
- Disarray Plagues U.S. Companies’ Efforts to Win Tariff Exemptions – NY Times
- Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think – NY Times
- This Is How a Newspaper Dies – Politico
- Higher gas prices are eating into Trump tax cut, trimming spending by Americans – USA Today
Europe:
- Paris knife attacker was French citizen born in Chechnya – Reuters
- Former Trump campaign aide is helping Russian firm shed sanctions – CNN
- Italy’s populist parties close to forming government – FT
- Brexit seen threatening UK links in EU supply chain – Reuters
- German online bank uses Bitcoins to transfer loans – Reuters
- If Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here’s How It Works – Wired
- On Brexit island it’s all getting a bit Lordships of the Flies – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Trump Vows to Save Jobs at China’s ZTE Lost After U.S. Sanctions – NY Times
- Trump orders U-turn over sanctions against Chinese telecom group – FT
- In concession, Trump says will help China’s ZTE ’get back into… – Reuters
- U.S. Businesses to Make Their Case Against China Tariffs – WSJ
- Xi Jinping may also come to S’pore to meet Donald Trump & Kim Jong-in – Mothership
- Japan’s Bitcoin King Poaches Wall Street Talent for Crypto Empire – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Bill Shorten’s terse letter to Pauline Hanson – PBS
- Universal basic income should be seen as a rightful share of society’s wealth – ABC
- Budget tax cuts the worst piece of tax policy design in recent history – The SMH
- How we arrived at budgets we can’t trust – The SMH
- Aussie bloke arrested for supplying free medicinal cannabis to sufferers – Herb
- Corrupt Chinese company on Telstra shortlist – The Age
- Solar and wind could ease Australia’s water shortage – The SMH
- Pauline Hanson written into One Nation constitution as effective president for life – The Guardian
- Annual auditing requirements of self-managed super funds to be reduced – ABC
- Coalition says costings for budget’s tax measures too ‘unreliable’ to release – The Guardian
- An unfunded, uncosted tax plan plays into Labor’s hands – again – The Guardian
- Swaths of native forest near Great Barrier Reef set to be bulldozed – Brisbane Times
- Fuel reduction a smokescreen for logging burns – The Saturday Paper
- Labor cries foul after Birmingham compares TAFE changes to subsidised ‘basket weaving’ – The Guardian
- Victoria’s new online betting tax upsets bookmakers, anti-gambling campaigners – ABC
- Solar and wind could ease Australia’s water shortage – Canberra Times
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Kiwibuild is either a flagship, or it isn’t – Interest.co.nz
- New Zealand’s government has made a rare investment of $65 million into ‘Uber for trash’ startup Rubicon – Recode