Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Buying and Holding the Market Has Many Pitfalls – Bloomberg
- Libor Refuses to Die, Setting Up $370 Trillion Benchmark Battle – Bloomberg
- Tesla starts brutal review of contractors, firing everyone that is not vouched for by an employee – Electrek
- The threat of secular stagnation has not gone away – FT
- The case for a five-hour working day – FT
- Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing” – AVC
- Warren Buffett: Bitcoin is ’probably rat poison squared’ – Business Insider
Americas:
- How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire – NY Times
- Giuliani: I’m ’focused on the law more than the facts right now’ – CNN
- Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump – Washington Post
- Fed’s Williams, Dudley Stress Soft Ceiling on Inflation Goal – Bloomberg
- Scrapping a subsidy to homeowners – Aea
- Retirees are leaving America to save money – NY Post
- As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire. Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash. – Washington Post
- How Trump Is Winning – NY Times
- Is the economy overheating? – EconBrowser
- California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes – OC Register
- McCain doesn’t want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House – NBC News
- America’s Treasury ramps up borrowing to finance the Republican tax cuts – The Economist
- The epic mistake about manufacturing that’s cost Americans millions of jobs – Quartz
Europe:
- Germany’s budget is an accident waiting to happen – FT
- German inheritance wave stokes fears over inequality – FT
- The Macron paradox: can one man really change France? – FT
- Greek Banks’ Clean Bill of Health Frees Bailout Funds – Bloomberg
- Hard Brexit will create more social anger than staying put – The Guardian
- Anger in the UK and France over Trump’s NRA speech – Reuters
- Brexit plan drawn up for border checks between NI and rest of UK – The Guardian
Asia:
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- The disappearing Chinese student visa – Axios
- China Plans $47 Billion Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry – WSJ
- The People’s Republic of Protectionism – Barron’s
- China braced for surprises in US trade talks – FT
- Fight the Faangs, not China – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Michaelia Cash told the ABC that she could live on the $40 a day the unemployed do – The Big Smoke
- ‘I eat one meal a day’: What it’s like to survive on Newstart – New Daily
- Malcolm Turnbull has become a de-facto climate denier – Renew Economy
- Malcolm Turnbull’s choice: Debt and deficit, or defeat – ABC
- Whatever Tuesday’s budget holds, it’s sure to be fudged – The SMH
- ‘Why are they presenting to emergency?’: Alarm sounded on youth mental health – ABC
- Coalition’s ‘arbitrary’ tax cap will force future spending cuts, thinktank warns – The Guardian
- Cattle industry looks to defend ‘meat’ label from lab-grown and plant-based products – ABC
- ‘World-first’ call for exercise to be prescribed to all Australian cancer patients – ABC
- NBN competitors take fight to the air – Crn
- Operation Sovereign Borders chief would have ‘concerns’ if Labor changed policy – The Guardian
- A Melbourne crypto exchange has raised $16m to make bitcoin trade ‘as easy as buying pizza’ – Business Insider
- Coal-fired power station closure, ash dam rehabilitation draws scathing criticism from SA council – ABC
- Australia’s public spaces at risk of becoming dull and repetitive – Domain
- Lower bad debts help Westpac grow profit to $4.25b – The SMH
- Low oil reserves: Government launches fuel security review – News.com.au
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‘Immigration to drop sharply, but uncertainties remain’ – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- How to Survive Your 40s – NY Times
- A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses – NY Times
- Pentagon moves closer to ‘swarming drones’ capability with new systems test – Washington Post
