Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- ‘I will be the world’s first trillionaire’ Cryptocurrency tycoon makes SHOCK claim – Daily Star
- Insurers Pull Billions From Hedge Funds – WSJ
- What the U.S.–China Trade War Means for the Art Market – Artsy
- Cost to insure Tesla’s debt rises on growing default fears – Reuters
- Across the globe, taxes on corporations plummet – Washington Post
- The Arctic is burning – WEF
- What Happens to Real Workers When Private Equity Deals Go Wrong – Bloomberg
Americas:
- ’Like a Soviet-type economy’: GOP free traders unload on Trump – Politico
- White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders – CNN
- Trade war winners and losers grapple with Trump tariff chaos – FT
- America’s middle class is slowly being ‘wiped out’ – MarketWatch
- Without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won – Washington Post
- To Ease Pain of Trump’s Trade War: $12 Billion in Aid for Farmers – NY Times
- Parking Has Eaten American Cities – CityLab
- Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Fix a Problem He Created with Emergency Powers – National Review
- Trump Wants the Fed to Roll Back the U.S. Economy – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Jeremy Corbyn to highlight economic ’benefit’ of Brexit as he demands UK stop relying on imports made by ’cheap labour from abroad’ – The Independent
- Sweden struggles over child marriage – Politico
- Number of French nudists rises by more than 50 per cent – Independent
- Biggest rise in UK poverty since Margaret Thatcher was in power, experts claim – Independent
- French conservatives push for no-confidence vote in Macron – Politico
- Department accused of wanting to delay report on the cost of a united Ireland until ‘after Brexit’ – The Journal
- Brexit secretary admits government must ensure ‘there is adequate food supply’ if UK leaves EU with no deal – Independent
Asia:
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- China Makes Deal With Bangladesh to Finance Padma Bridge Rail Link – Jumore Global
- Why China must show stronger climate leadership – Carbon News
- Why China’s Stargazers Want to Turn Down the Lights – Sixth Tone
- Chinese researchers to get more autonomy over lab spending – Nature
- South Korean Dam Building Company SK Engineering in crisis mode over deadly Laos dam collaps – The Standard
- Who Will Be the Biggest Beneficiary of Chinese Car Tariff Cut? Maybe German Carmakers – Jumore Global
- The question facing Chinese diaspora: for love of country or party? – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Police can access My Health Record without court order, parliamentary library warns – The Guardian
- ‘Unprecedented hostility’: Murdoch, the government, and an ABC under attack – The Guardian
- Very little is stopping My Health Record being hooked up to robo-debt – ZDNet
- ‘It’s not safe for us’: South Sudanese-Australians weather ‘African gangs’ storm – The Guardian
- South Australia on track to meet 75% renewables target Liberals promised to scrap – The Guardian
- NBN write-down ‘appears inevitable’: S&P – The Age
- Residents in apartment buildings slugged thousands to change power companies – ABC
- ‘Perfect storm’ for major banks as pressure mounts to raise interest rates – ABC
- Stop copying New Zealand’s flag, Winston Peters tells Australia – The Guardian
- Bungled IT projects see costs blow out for NSW transport agencies – The SMH
- Australian farmers say Trump’s $12 billion aid package will hurt them – ABC
- Penalty rates cuts ‘devastating’, parliamentary inquiry finds – The SMH
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First home buyers back off again – Interest.co.nz