Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled – Bloomberg
- Traders With Pockets Full of Crypto Quit Wall Street – Bloomberg
- Bond Legend Bill Gross Had a Nightmare Day Yesterday – Bloomberg
- Surprise! Hedge-funder who charges a 44% performance fee tops list of richest investors – Market Watch
- Wall Street Gets Win as Fed Set to Ease Volcker Trade Limits – Bloomberg
- Bill Gross’s Janus fund suffered worst day since launch – FT
- Crypto’s most devout believers are suffering a crisis of faith – FT
- The world’s progress brings new challenges – FT
- Greater risk is as much of a scourge as stagnant incomes – FT
- Red Flags Are Suddenly Rampant in Markets – WSJ
Americas:
- How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’ – NY Times
- How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google – NY Times
- The Fed – Beige Book – May 30, 2018 – Federal Reserve
- U.S. Plans to Hit EU With Steel, Aluminum Tariffs – WSJ
- Trump Shows How Not to Be a Protectionist – WSJ
- Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try – NY Times
- Big Banks to Get Reprieve from Volcker Rule – NY Times
- Walmart Says It Will Pay for Its Workers to Earn College Degrees – NY Times
- Fed, U.S. regulators unveil first ’Volcker Rule’ rewrite – Reuters
- Scarcity of Housing in Rural America Drives Worker Shortage – WSJ
- Canada Would Rather Have No Nafta Than a Bad Deal, Trudeau Says – Bloomberg
Europe:
- ’Murdered’ Russian journalist is alive – BBC
- EU plans €30bn fund to help crisis-hit eurozone countries – FT
- Who’s Most Vulnerable to Italy’s Troubles? Europe’s Banks – WSJ
- Italy’s Cottarelli opens door to possible eurosceptic government – Reuters
- Productive companies take most pessimistic view of Brexit – FT
- Nominal wages are not real wages, and why it matters in the UK – Mainly Macro
- Italy Bonds Pass Auction Test in a Sign of Easing Market Jitters – Bloomberg
- The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law – NY Times
- Italy’s President Just Undermined the Euro – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- India’s Embattled Democracy – NY Times
- Pompeo meets North Korean official in push to rescue nuclear summit – LA Times
- China Slams Trump’s ‘Flip-Flop’ on Tariffs as Trade Spat Worsens – Bloomberg
- China vows to protect its interests from ’reckless’ U.S. trade threats – Reuters
- The Chinese Exclusion Act – PBS
- China’s Economy Is Battling Slowdown, Earliest Indicators Show – Bloomberg
- China’s Xi Endorses Blockchain As ’Breakthrough’ in Economic Reform – Coin Desk
Trans-Tasman:
- Amazon to block its US website for Aussie shoppers over new GST rules – The Age
- Barnaby Joyce’s decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics – The Conversation
- Michaelia Cash Just Refused To Answer 25 Questions About The AWU Raids – Buzz Feed
- Tax cuts are awful for ‘middle Australia’. Pretending otherwise is misleading – The Guardian
- The federal government has been accused of indefinitely shelving plans for a crackdown on dodgy payday lending operators – The Guardian
- ABC response to Maurice Newman in The Australian – ABC
- Mars goes 100% solar for six Australian factories – Renew Economy
- Police faked 258,000 breath tests in shocking ‘breach of trust’ – The Age
- Turnbull pulls live export bill after Sussan Ley signals intent to back Labor ban – The Guardian
- Labor refuses to say if it would reverse funding cuts to the ABC – The SMH
- Part-time bureaucrat on $205,000 resolved one wind farm gripe a week – The SMH
- BOM outlook: Winter is coming — but it’s looking hot and dry for south-east Australia – ABC
- The tyranny of distance: What Amazon’s international block will mean for you – ABC
- Business investment weakness continues, dragged down by construction – ABC
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Mortgage borrowing growth rate rises – Interest.co.nz
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