Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline – The Atlantic
- Crypto’s 32-Year-Old Billionaire Mining King Is Mulling an IPO – Bloomberg
- G7 leaders divided on climate change, closer on trade issues – Reuters
- Rich Kids Are Counting On Inheritance to Pay for Retirement – Bloomberg
- The Daily Shot: U.S. Equity Mutual Funds Still Shedding Assets – WSJ
- Economies can’t ignore human needs if they want to benefit from automation – Technology Review
- Fed on Track to Raise Rates Regardless of Emerging-Market Woes – Bloomberg
- New Bitcoin ETF Would Set Buyers Back $200,000 – WSJ
- Republicans Are Scaring Money Out of Wall Street – Bloomberg
- Chanos Calls Bitcoin ‘Last Thing I’d Want to Own’ in a Crisis – Bloomberg
- Jim Chanos: “Cryptocurrency is a security speculation game masquerading as a technological breakthrough” – Inet
- The retirement-consumption puzzle – VOX
Americas:
- Sent back to Mexico’s violence, Des Moines student dies within weeks – Des Moines Register
- White House Analysis Finds Tariffs Will Hurt Growth, as Officials Insist Otherwise – NY Times
- The Trump administration believes Obamacare’s preexisting conditions protections are now unconstitutional – VOX
- Short-Termism Is Harming the Economy – WSJ
- Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff – Reuters
- Trump administration tells court it won’t defend key provisions of the Affordable Care Act – CNN
- Trump Feuds With Leaders of France, Canada Before Summit – WSJ
- Suicide rates rise sharply across the United States, new report shows – Washington Post
- Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim – Washington Post
- U.S. Monthly Auto Payments Reach Record High in First Quarter – Bloomberg
- How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping Work: Not So Much – NY Times
- Donald Trump, the Lose-Lose Negotiator – Bloomberg
- The Republicans Abandon Free Trade – Reason
- Trump Says U.S. Economy Is the ‘Greatest’ Ever. It’s Not. – Bloomberg
- Trump Gets a Lot Out of Trade Wars. The U.S. Gets Less – Bloomberg
- If the economy is so great, why are 78 million hustling for dimes? – MarketWatch
Europe:
- An Explosive Leaked Recording Reveals Boris Johnson’s Private Views About Brexit, Trump And Russia – BuzzFeed
- Weep for Brexit: the British dash for independence has failed – The Telegraph
- The Italian Economy’s Moment of Truth – Project Syndicate
- Fed’s dilemma grows more acute after EM and Europe turmoil – FT
- Betting on Crisis, Hedge Funds Short Italian Bonds – NY Times
- The Brexit myth of no-strings frictionless trade – FT
- UK business angered by lack of input on post-Brexit links with EU – FT
- House of Fraser to close 31 stores – BBC
- Britain Has Gone Nine Days Without Wind Power – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- US strikes a deal with China’s ZTE to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says – CNBC
- Western Cities Want to Slow Flood of Chinese Home Buying. Nothing Works. – WSJ
- Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning – Politico
- Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Abortion clinic ‘safe access zones’ become law in NSW – The SMH
- China furious, as politicians unite on stronger anti-espionage laws – ABC
- The ‘gig economy’ is cheating millennials, so why are they its biggest fans? – ABC
- Labor vows to crack down on child brides and forced marriages – The SMH
- Corporate criminals could negotiate penalties to avoid convictions – Sky News
- Move to renewables a ‘good thing’, Nationals’ David Littleproud says – The Guardian
- NSW push could allow corporations to sue for defamation – The Guardian
- Aussie workers have ‘less rights than 100 years ago’ – 9News
- NSW inter-city train costs face blowout to make fleet fit tracks on Blue Mountains line – ABC
- NBN: Survey shows more than a third of users would give the NBN up if they could – News.com.au
- Twyford launches new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development – Interest.co.nz
- PM accuses Opposition of spreading fake news – Interest.co.nz
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OECD will be watching Robertson’s next Budget ‘like a hawk’ – Interest.co.nz
- Kiwibank cuts its two year home loan ‘special’ rate – Interest.co.nz