Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Elon Musk, the Donald of Silicon Valley – NY Times
- What the Hell Happened at GE? – Fortune
- Goldman Says Riskiest Junk Bonds Are Most ‘Mispriced’ Since 2007 – Bloomberg
- Leverage Alert Ringing While Cash Drains From Stock Broker Accounts – Bloomberg
- Amazon’s Finance Ambitions Are Drawing Attention From the Fed – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump Versus Law Enforcement: A Confrontation With No Precedent – NY Times
- Immigrant families separated at border struggle to find each other – Houston Chronicle
- Must watch: Chris Hayes on ’despicable’ new Trump policy – MSNBC
- Banks Won Big in Washington. What It Means for Investors – WSJ
- Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017 – Federal Reserve
- How Student Debt Can Ruin Home Buying Dreams – NY Times
- The Number of Female Chief Executives Is Falling – NY Times
- Learning from America’s Forgotten Default – Project Syndicate
- The ‘Tax-Free’ Investment Causing Massive Tax Headaches – WSJ
- Getting Rich on Government-Backed Mortgages – Bloomberg
- Why corporate America loves Donald Trump – The Economist
- A Rescue Plan for a Jobs Crisis in the Heartland – NY Times
- White-Collar Prosecutions Fall to 20-Year Low Under Trump – Bloomberg
- Stocks prices are a proxy for our beliefs about the future – The Reformed Broker
Europe:
- How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money – The Guardian
- Irish Times exit poll projects Ireland has voted by landslide to repeal Eighth Amendment – Irish Times
- Hedge Funds Raise Bets Against Italy, Bond Yields Soar – WSJ
- Bankers May Have Moved $13 Billion Through Baltic Laundromat – Bloomberg
- How Worried Should We Be about an Italian Debt Crisis? – PIIE
- Why a French philosopher wants to stop Brexit – FT
- Rusal CEO Quits Amid Pressure Over U.S. Sanctions – WSJ
- Carney warns of impact of ‘disruptive Brexit’ – FT
- UK ’chasing a fantasy’ in Brexit talks, top EU official warns – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Why China scares pols of all stripes – Axios
- After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ – Washington Post
- China Inc tightens reins on debt, raises specter of slowdown – Reuters
- Trump wanted to cancel the summit before Kim could – NBC
- Kim Jong Un is better off now than he was before Trump agreed to a summit – Washington Post
- Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Medicare spending is higher for children from high socioeconomic backgrounds than their poorer counterparts – The Conversation
- At $528,000 a year, Turnbull’s pay is highest of any leader in OECD – The Age
- The largest government grant for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef has been awarded, without tender – The Saturday Paper
- Why the robot revolution risks an economic ‘death spiral’ for Australia – The Guardian
- Commonwealth Bank whistleblower’s case set to settle – The SMH
- Financial planner reveals how much you need to stop working and be considered wealthy – NT News
- Labor promises to jail bosses over wage theft – The Age
- Parents group quits at top private school over tax dispute – The SMH
- Australia builds an ‘Orwellian’ sledge hammer to crack down on foreign influence – and a lot more too – The New Daily
- Melbourne’s missing road link to ‘reduce crashes, increase job options’ – ABC
- Bosses could get 20 years’ jail for workers’ deaths under Victorian Labor pledge – ABC
- NAB promises to compensate customers for losses from nationwide outage – ABC
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