Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Supply Chains and Trade War (Very Wonkish) – NY Times
- Trends in mortality inequality in the US and France – VOX
- Asset prices and wealth inequality – VOX
- Why is macroeconomics so hard to teach? – The Economist
- Crypto Unicorn Bitmain Weighs $18 Billion IPO, One of World’s Largest – Coin Desk
- A Challenge to the Biggest Idea in Behavioral Finance – Bloomberg
- Protectionism and the business cycle – VOX
- Tesla Stock’s Surge Puts Convertible Bonds in the Money – Barron’s
- Small team of AI coders beats Google’s machine learning code – Tech Review
Americas:
- Trump’s War With Harley-Davidson Has Divided America’s Bikers – NY Times
- The media and the Ku Klux Klan: a debate that began in the 1920s – The Guardian
- Environmental regulations drove steep declines in U.S. factory pollution – UC Berkeley
- Trump’s Nemesis in the Age of Pinocchio – NY Times
- The Ahistorical Federal Reserve – Project Syndicate
- DeVos Ends Obama-Era Safeguards Aimed at Abuses by For-Profit Colleges – NY Times
- Trump’s résumé is rife with mob connections – Washington Post
- Tracking Trump’s Trade Talks – WSJ
- The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market – NPR
- Highest Core Inflation in Decade Flattens Real U.S. Wage Growth – Bloomberg
Europe:
- We like to mock Trump, but Britain’s Russia stance is even worse – The Guardian
- ECB concerns grow over EU banks’ Turkey exposure as lira slides – FT
- 2016 Attack On Swedish News Sites Was The Work Of Russia – Buzz Feed
- London’s economy shrugs off effects of Brexit vote – FT
- The UK could use a new centrist party, but not another anti-immigrant one – The Guardian
- The EU is preparing to offer a major Brexit concession to Theresa May – Business Insider
Asia:
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- New evidence emerges of China forcing Muslims into ‘reeducation’ camps – Washington Post
- U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs… – Reuters
- China warns off US reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea – CNN
- A Challenge to the Biggest Idea in Behavioral Finance – The Economist
- Globalization with Chinese Characteristics – Project Syndicate
- They Left China to Chase the American Dream. Now They’re Fighting Affirmative Action. – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Huge pay rise for Coles workers after scrapping of cost union deal – The SMH
- ‘It’s not unusual’: Frydenberg defends $444m reef grant – The SMH
- Reef won’t be saved by fools – or knaves, or shortcuts – The SMH
- Opinion: Great Barrier Reef grant likely to get messy for Prime Minister Malcolm Turbull – The West
- PM’s reef plunge rips up grant rules – The Age
- Excited Palaszczuk Reveals Reef Nearly Dead Enough For Coal Ships To Crush Through – Betoota Advocate
- NDIS takeover of community mental health services may reduce quality of care, advocates warn – ABC
- Time for an about-face? Flaws in facial recognition plan – Aspi Strategist
- Big little lies: The rotten core that could kill the NEG – Renew Economy
- Abbott goes full Trump as Coalition tries out election strategies – The West
- Defying the drought: Farmers who have braced for the big dry – ABC
- Australians can be brutal when a public figure falls from favour – The Age
- Why does Australia waste its recycled water when it could be used to irrigate food crops? – ABC
- NBN customers paying for FTTP upgrade giving neighbours cheaper access – ABC
- The federal election campaign is underway as Malcolm Turnbull spruiks his GST fix to WA – ABC
- Banking royal commission: Industry super funds sail through inquiry as spotlight roasts NAB, retail funds – ABC
- Scott Morrison vows to take tax cuts to next election – The Guardian
- The Government and the Governor – the twin engines of the new economy – Interest.co.nz