Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Citi issues stark warning on automation of bank jobs – FT
- Protectionism: Historical perspectives – VOX
- Trump Tries to Destroy the West – NY Times
- Emerging-Markets Rout Boosts Contagion Fears – WSJ
- Some ways to introduce a modern debt Jubilee – VOX
Americas:
- A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’ – The Atlantic
- The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence – New Yorker
- Birth Rates Dropped Most in Counties Where Home Values Grew Most – Zillow
- Trump Says Economic Adviser Kudlow Suffered a Heart Attack – Bloomberg
- Beware the ‘mother of all credit bubbles’ – Washington Post
- Seattle Poised to Repeal Tax On Amazon and Large Employers – Bloomberg
- The $1.4 Trillion U.S. ‘Surplus’ That Trump’s Not Talking About – Bloomberg
- Wall Street Is Awash in Sublease Space. It’s a Bad Sign for Landlords – Bloomberg
- As Trump Tariffs Bite, Firms Dangle Cash Prizes in Lobbying Push – Industry Week
- Will the Fed Set Off a Recession Alarm? – WSJ
- Gaming the Fallout from a Trade War on the Fed’s Rate Plans – Bloomberg
- Increasingly restrictive land-use regulations are driving up housing prices in many of America’s biggest metros – Land Use Regulations
- Millennials are moving to the exurbs in droves – Axios
Europe:
- Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign – McClatchy
- How Democratic Is the Euro? – Project Syndicate
- There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion – VOX
- UK manufacturing output falls at swiftest rate since 2012 – FT
- Sweden Tries to Halt Its March to Total Cashlessness – Bloomberg
- Angela Merkel on Trump’s G7 show: It’s ‘depressing’ – Politico
- The Eurozone’s Coming Debt Crisis – Dlacalle
- UK to apply to stay in European standards system after Brexit – FT
- The Italian mini-BOT debate – Bruegel
Asia:
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- Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada – New Yorker
- Kim Jong Un Posed For A Selfie. He’s Also Probably Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity. – BuzzFeed
- North Korean defector: Trump should not make a deal with a ’monster’ – NBC News
- Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment – NY Times
- Trump Economic Adviser Ties G-7 Pullout to North Korea Meeting – NY Times
- How Chinese students exercise free speech abroad – The Economist
Trans-Tasman:
- $500,000 wind farm experts provided no advice in two years – The SMH
- Bill Shorten vows to reverse the Turnbull government’s $84m cut to the ABC – Canberra Times
- Developer criticised for plan to dredge Queensland wetland and build 3,600 homes – The Guardian
- Thanks to public spending – not private – the economy keeps ticking along – The Guardian
- Green producers take vertical farm system to the world – ABC
- ANZ cartel case: The art of the flip and why bankers have turned snitch – ABC
- Tasmanian Greens’ bid to freeze Airbnb listing to test Sue Hickey’s loyalty to Government – ABC
- Liberal anger over factional deal – The SMH
- Bill Shorten refuses to promise that Labor will end asylum detention – The SMH
- Secret NSW Government report says out-of-home care fails to help vulnerable children – ABC
- Yellow oBikes leaving Melbourne in wake of crackdown – The Age
- ‘Crisis-driven’: scathing report damns NSW child protection system – The Guardian
- Australia ‘flirting with danger’ in debate over China, race commissioner warns – The Guardian
- How Australia’s traffic signals favour drivers and discourage walking – The Guardian
- Lend Lease: double dipping and Dutch tripping – Michael West
- What the Australian Tax Office can do and how it differs to other agencies – ABC
- A ‘standard’ deduction? No such thing, ATO warns ahead of tax time – Canberra Times
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New immigration policy’s impact ‘overestimated’ – Interest.co.nz