Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over – NY Times
- Buffett Starts to Say Goodbye to a Pile of Equity-Index Options – Bloomberg
- The Nine Essential Conditions to Commit Massive Fraud – The Reformed Broker
- Why Are Young Billionaires So Boring? – Bloomberg
- Six Lies on Trade – CEPR
- Dreams of Goldman Doing Big Takeover Meet Stress Test’s Reality – Bloomberg
- Takeaway From the New Billionaires Ranking: Zuckerberg and Bezos Don’t Give Away Enough Money – Slate
- How Fears of an Inverted Yield Curve Could Be Self Fulfilling – Bloomberg
- After Years of Easing, Meet Quantitative Tightening: QuickTake – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, explained – VOX
- Ivanka Trump’s Chinese-made products spared from tariffs – MSN
- Trump’s Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime – Bloomberg
- Big banks, feeling unloved in Trump’s Washington, shake up lobbying – Politico
- Fiscal Policy in Good Times and Bad – FRBSF
- ‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president’s policies – Washington Post
- House Money: Wall Street Is Raising More Cash Than Ever for Its Rental-Home Gambit – WSJ
- How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System – Wired
- What’s Holding Mexico’s Economy Back – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers – Nieman Lab
- Boris Johnson quits amid Brexit crisis – BBC
- Face of Brexit Boris Johnson Resigns, Plunging May Into Crisis – Bloomberg
- David Davis: In the end, there was nothing behind the swagger – Politics UK
- May Acts to Defuse Crisis, Replacing Davis With Young Brexiteer – Bloomberg
- Brexit Delivers Blow to British Finance as Investments Slide – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- U.S.-China Trade War: How We Got Here – Council on Foreign Relations
- Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras – NY Times
- Inside Pompeo’s Fraught North Korea Trip – Bloomberg
- A Stock Market Crash With Chinese Characteristics – WSJ
- Xiaomi, a Chinese Technology Darling, Slumps After I.P.O. – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Energy watchdog wants $40 power price cut – SBS
- Transurban overhauls road toll fee system – SBS
- Transurban reduces fees after collecting millions on top of tolls – ABC
- Macquarie Bank hikes mortgage rates – SBS
- NEG not a free kick for coal, Energy Australia says – ABC
- ‘Unprecedented’: Solar panel installations soar, on track to triple 2017 record – Canberra Times
- Trial wipes out more than 80 per cent of disease-spreading mozzie – CSIRO
- How millennials’ choices are reshaping private health insurance for everyone – ABC
- Telstra: ‘Glory days’ are over, says investment company boss – The SMH
- Greater labour market flexibility is the opposite of what we need right now – The Guardian
- Monster 4.7-metre saltwater crocodile thought to be largest ever removed from Katherine – ABC
- Missing evidence base for big calls on infrastructure costs us all – The Conversation
- Bus drivers stage 24-hour strike in Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong – ABC
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‘Fat, content and complacent’ – Gareth Morgan slams NZ voters – Interest.co.nz