Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Default in Today’s Advanced Economies: Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely – IMF
- Central banks should consider offering accounts to everyone – The Economist
- Oil hits multi-week lows on fears of growing supplies – Reuters
- How stress echoes down the generations – The Economist
Americas:
- These are the hometowns of Americans who died for the U.S. since 9/11 – Axios
- Nissan to cut North American production by up to 20% – Nikkei
- Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office – NY Times
- America has a massive truck driver shortage. Here’s why few want an $80,000 job. – Washington Post
- Authors of GOP tax law disperse to lobby firms – The Hill
- As Trump Talks Tough on Trade, Worries Mount Over Lack of Action – WSJ
- U.S. Becomes World’s Most Competitive Economy Again – Bloomberg
- U.S. executives say broad-based wage gains are “not going to happen” – Axios
Europe:
- Treasury and BoE clash over City of London regulation after Brexit – FT
- In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything – NY Times
- President Mattarella of Italy: From moral drift to tactical blunder – Yanis Varoufakis
- Italy’s Organic Crisis – American Affairs Journal
- Britain could sell 10 percent stake in RBS as soon as this week – Reuters
- The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law – NY Times
- Italy Falls Into Political Chaos as Populists Slam President – Bloomberg
- Italian PM-designate quits after president rejects Euroskeptic minister – Politico
- Eurotunnel warns on Tory plans for post-Brexit customs – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China approves 13 new Ivanka Trump trademarks in 3 months – AP
- Sexual Violence is Holding Back the Rise of India – Bloomberg
- China’s Water Crisis Revisited – China Policy Institute
- China Set to Approve Qualcomm-NXP Deal, a Sign of Easing Trade Tensions – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens want inquiry into awarding of $444m Great Barrier Reef grant – The Guardian
- Royal Commission: Bankwest seized pub after reducing 13 year loan to 1 – New Daily
- Cash invokes public interest immunity to avoid ROC questions – The SMH
- Barnaby Joyce’s Channel Seven interview deal leaves people ‘disgusted’, Kelly O’Dwyer says – ABC
- After just two questions, Clive Palmer tells Leigh Sales ‘keep quiet’ – The SMH
- China’s ‘brazen’ and ‘aggressive’ political interference outlined in top secret report – ABC
- Official data reveals the collapse in foreign investment activity in Australia’s housing market – Business Insider
- Super fund members being short-changed billions every year, Productivity Commission report finds – ABC
- Money Choice customers left homeless, burdened with debt after loan scandal – ABC
- If there ever was a time to block tax cuts in the Senate, it’s now – The Guardian
- Revealed: Why the sale of Ausgrid to Chinese buyers was vetoed – The SMH
- Renewables not to blame for rising power costs: ACCC boss – The SMH
- Renewable power that’s set to help replace coal-fired power in Australia – The Herald
- Why there will be no new petrol cars sold in Australia by 2027 – Renew Economy
- Treasury reveals gains to workers under Coalition’s tax plan – The Age
- Foreign property investment plummets as tougher regulations bite – ABC