Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Tesla Shareholders Urged to Separate Chairman’s Role From Musk – Bloomberg
- How university economic theories are failing us all – Patreon
- A.I. Is Harder Than You Think – NY Times
- Crypto Wealth Sinks $45 Billion in One Week – Bloomberg
- The Hidden Risk of Passive and Index Hugging – Book Staber
- Cryptocurrency Firms Explore Getting Bank Licenses – WSJ
- The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax – Columbia
- How the World’s Biggest Companies Are Fine-Tuning the Robot Revolution – WSJ
- Record Buybacks Put Shareholder Payouts on Pace for $1 Trillion – Bloomberg
- Farmers worldwide struggle with rising fuel costs – Reuters
- Bitcoin’s Growing Energy Problem – Cell
- What Determines The Price Of Bitcoin? – Forbes
- Oil Is Above $70, but Frackers Still Struggle to Make Money – WSJ
Americas:
- Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election – NY Times
- Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms – Washington Post
- Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia – Slate Star Codex
- How Larry Kudlow Adapts to Trump Economic Policy – Barron’s
- Forget What the Atlantic Is Telling You. The 1 Percent Are Still the Problem. – Slate
- Trump vs. the “Deep State” – New Yorker
- Companies Can’t Hold the Line on U.S. Wages Much Longer – Bloomberg
- U.S. Farms, Factories Can’t Produce Enough to Meet White House Goal to Cut China Deficit – WSJ
- This Is America’s Hottest Job – Bloomberg
- Brazil’s forests could fall victim to the US-China trade war – WEF
Europe:
- March of Italy’s mini-BoTs may split the euro – FT
- Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning From Its Own History of Hate – NY Times
- Italy’s Biggest Problem: The Euro – Barron’s
- PM set to nominate 10 Tory peers after string of Brexit defeats – The Guardian
- Maximum pressure on North Korea is gone, and it isn’t coming back – Washington Post
- EU considers Iran central bank transfers to beat U.S. sanctions – Reuters
- Italian bonds sink to seven-month lows on government deal – FT
- Switzerland seeks study of state-backed “e-franc” cryptocurrency – Reuters
- The populism backlash: An economically driven backlash – VOX
Asia:
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- China Rejects U.S. Target for Narrowing Trade Gap – WSJ
- Invite from Chinese bank offers chance to meet Trump for $150,000 – FT
- Merkel to Seek China as Free-Trade Ally on Beijing Trip – Bloomberg
- China Agrees to Buy More U.S. Goods and Services – WSJ
- Chinese Bank Offered Clients Chance to Dine With Trump for $150,000 – Bloomberg
- China’s buyers balk at U.S. corn on trade fears, GMO controls – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens endorse union campaign to strengthen bargaining powers – The Guardian
- Dollarmites bites: the scandal behind the Commonwealth Bank’s junior savings program – The Age
- MPs’ expanded oversight of spy agencies under cloud – The SMH
- ‘Warped and elitist’: are Australia’s selective schools failing the fairness test? – The Guardian
- Green roofs for Australian cities would help reduce flooding and save on bills, study shows – ABC
- Australia’s newest air warfare destroyer, the Sydney, is set to be launched in Adelaide, the third and final ship in a $9 billion defence program – SBS
- Wool soars to ‘unthinkable’ highs as it closes in on $20 a kilogram – ABC
- Australia defends voting against ‘unbalanced’ United Nations investigation into Gaza killings – The SMH
- Perth Children’s Hospital car park bill continues to skyrocket after opening – ABC
- ‘Clearly failed’: Pauline Hanson blasts citizenship survey she lost 90% to 10% – The Guardian
- HSV’s Camaro will be auto-only – Motoring
- More MPs in firing line as citizenship crisis escalates – SBS
- Australia urged to follow suit as UK cracks down on pokies, limiting bets to $3.60 per spin – ABC
- Acciona seeks $200m over dam, five power station moves – The Australian
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Robertson has 11.7 billion reasons to smile after his first Budget – Interest.co.nz
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Term deposit competition heats up – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness – The Economist
- When quotas reduce discrimination – VOX