Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Founders of cryptocurrency backed by Floyd Mayweather indicted for fraud – MarketWatch
- What’s in a Hedge Fund Name? Apparently Booze, Boats and Boston – Bloomberg
- Morgan Stanley Says a Shipping Revolution Has Oil Headed for $90 – Bloomberg
- When the Blockchain Skeptic Walked Into the Lions’ Den – Wired
- Fed’s Bostic Says Job Is to Prevent Inversion of Yield Curve – Bloomberg
- Meet Tesla’s new bondholder: Billionaire George Soros – Reuters
- You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS – Bloomberg
- Stocks could shed half their value next year, hedge fund manager Dan Niles warns – CNBC
- Pimco Sees U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yields Topping Out at 3.5% – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can. – NY Times
- The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy – The Atlantic
- Trump’s personal attorney solicited $1 million from government of Qatar – Washington Post
- It’s not just Amazon: Apple quietly explores Northern Virginia campus for 20,000 jobs – Washington Post
- Why the Credit-Card Boom May Have Just Peaked – WSJ
- Feds want to make real ’Wolf of Wall Street’ pay up – NY Times
- Companies Can’t Hold the Line on U.S. Wages Much Longer – Bloomberg
- ‘The gorilla in the room’: Inside Trump’s failed efforts to meet Putin in 2013 – Washington Post
- In Veiled Shot at Trump, Tillerson Warns Democracy Is at Risk – Bloomberg
- ‘Americans are Being Held Hostage and Terrorized by the Fringes’ – Politico
- 40% in U.S. can’t afford middle-class basics – Axios
- How Many Reserves Does a Country Like Argentina Need? – Council on Foreign Relations
Europe:
- Bank of England deputy warns UK economy entering ’menopausal’ phase – The Telegraph
- Here’s how the Swiss plan to end fractional reserve banking would actually work – Business Insider
- Kremlin Used NRA to Help Trump in 2016, Senate Report Says – Daily Beast
- Top ECB official calls for accelerated banking union drive – FT
- Italian Bonds Fall While Populists Debate $300 Billion Write-Down – Bloomberg
- Russiagate Is Not About Russia – BuzzFeed
Asia:
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- ’Thank the Party!’ China tries to brainwash Muslims in camps – AP
- Trump’s North Korea Nobel buzz could die with John Bolton – Politico
- Top Trump trade officials still at odds after profane shouting match in Beijing – Washington Post
- Top Trump Trade Adviser to Be Excluded From China Talks, Officials Say – Bloomberg
- ‘Diplotainment at its pinnacle’: Critics fear Trump’s style eclipses substance on North Korea – Washington Post
- Is China Straight-Up Bribing Donald Trump? – Vanity Fair
Trans-Tasman:
- “Rent Is Dead Money” Says 28-Year-Old Bag Of Shit Still Living At Home – Betoota Advocate
- Turnbull government ‘knew for years’ about network rorts, letters show – The Age
- Coalition defends union royal commission after blackmail charges dropped – New Daily
- Have you heard the one about the treasurer predicting wage growth? – The Guardian
- Faith no more: Why young Australians are rejecting religion – SBS
- nbn™ isn’t fixing HFC, it’s ‘optimising’ it – The Register
- Alan Jones fights back tears as he testifies in multi-million-dollar defamation trial – ABC
- Parliamentary committee recommends referendum after dual citizenship fiasco – ABC
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Launches $7 Million Initiative For Renewable Grid Stability – Clean Technica
- Norco to return to NSW hospitals as State Government backflips on milk decision – ABC
- Coalition’s and Labor’s plans both increase burden on poorer taxpayers – ABC
- ASIC slams banks and financial institutions for creating ‘trust deficit’ – ABC
- Talk around Sydney dinner tables is focused on city’s growing pains – The SMH
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Budget 2018: No doubt it’s a ‘rebuilding budget’ – Interest.co.nz