Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Banks and brokers suffer ‘dramatic’ fall in commissions – FT
- The World Isn’t Prepared for Retirement – Bloomberg
- The Artificial Intelligence Revolution – Medeci
- Wellbeing inequality in retrospect – VOX
- If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power – The Economist
- Banking Playing Catch Up in Technology, Conceding Battle for Payments – The Financial Brand
- That natural gas power plant with no carbon emissions or air pollution? It works. – VOX
- Tesla workers say factory paint shop has had multiple fires, causing more problems than Tesla let on – CNBC
Americas:
- Trump’s Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head Off a Historic Subpoena – NY Times
- Donald Trump Has Been Lying to the American Public, and Journalists Need to Call Him Out – Teen Vogue
- Breaking from GOP orthodoxy, Trump increasingly deciding winners and losers in the economy – Washington Post
- Why Trump’s Protectionism Is Futile – WSJ
- Trump’s spent far more going to Mar-a-Lago alone than the Mueller probe has cost – Washington Post
- The Antidote to Trump Is Decency – The Atlantic
- The Trump administration imposes tariffs on America’s closest allies – The Economist
- Brazil, Scared and Leaderless, Looks to the Military – Americas Quarterly
- Mexico Knows How to Fight a Trade War – Bloomberg
- It’s 2007 Again for Commercial Mortgage Bonds, Moody’s Says – Bloomberg
- U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into Trading in Fannie, Freddie Bonds – Bloomberg
- The Three Rural Americas – City Lab
- White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says – Washington Post
- We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are – NY Times
- May job gains beat expectations, unemployment rate hits 18-year low – Yahoo
- Record 95.9 Million Americans Are No Longer In The Labor Force – ZeroHedge
- 50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are Ready to Go on Strike Over Fears of Robots Taking Their Jobs – Gizmodo
Europe:
- A Euro Tragedy – Mainly Macro
- Ireland gives Britain two weeks to produce Brexit border proposals – Reuters
- Government gives Theresa May two weeks to solve Border issue – Irish Times
- Italy’s Populist Parties Win Approval to Form Government – NY Times
- Google Emerges as Early Winner From Europe’s New Data Privacy Law – WSJ
- Italian Politics Just Had Its Craziest Week In Decades. But It Could Be Only The Beginning. – BuzzFeed
- Brussels vows to hit back at US tariffs with measures of its own – FT
- Italian bonds’ extreme volatility exposes liquidity strains – FT
- Visa payment disruption hits Europe – BBC
- UK names academic Haskel as new Bank of England rate-setter – Reuters
Asia:
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- The U.S. is trying to find a discreet way to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel during the summit – Washington Post
- China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other – The Economist
- China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M follow-on round – Tech Crunch
- EU Takes China to the WTO Over Technology-Transfer Practices – Bloomberg
- That Calm Chinese Stock Market? It’s Engineered by the State – WSJ
- China Turns to Robotic Policing – Ozy
Trans-Tasman:
- Up in smoke: what did taxpayers get for their $2bn emissions fund? – The Guardian
- Victoria plans to remove 1,200 feral horses from Alpine National Park – ABC
- Sunsuper faces legal action over alleged ‘improper’ payments for disability benefits – ABC
- Salinity crisis destroying Australia’s farmland, but farmers hope to stop it – ABC
- Time to draw a line in the sand on parliamentary behaviour – New Daily
- More than half-a-million Aussies to benefit from new medicines on PBS – MSN
- Nine Entertainment Co and Sky join forces for 24-hour business channel – The SMH
- The religious minority seizing power in the Liberal Party – The Age
- CBA’s BankWest takeover debacle and APRA’s “appalling” regulatory fail – Michael West
- How ‘free marketeers’ killed Neoliberalism – Canberra Times
- With ABC in a pickle, chairman Justin Milne breaks silence – The Guardian
- One in five rooftop solar units deficient, official figures show – The SMH
- The rapidly changing dynamics of Australia’s grid – Renew Economy
- Murray-Darling Basin: Meet the NSW water regulator saying he’ll cut off supply to rogue irrigators – ABC
- More than half-a-million Aussies to benefit from new medicines on PBS – MSN
- Putting a stop to the gravy train – The Australian
- Super showdown: the next battle – The Australian
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Other:
- The radical power of realizing you’re a “dumb shit” – Quartz
- Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test – The Atlantic