Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Tesla Directors Do Damage Control After Elon Musk Tweets – NY Times
- Goldman Sachs Had No Mandate When Musk Tweeted – Bloomberg
- ‘Mega-Round’ Investors Shower Start-Ups With Millions – NY Times
- Cryptocurrency Market Plumbs New Depths in 2018 – WSJ
- The biggest policy mistake of the last decade – The Week
- Investors Haven’t Been This Bullish on U.S. Stocks Since 2015 – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Groundbreaking Primary Results for Democratic Women and Diversity – NY Times
- ‘He created Omarosa’: How Trump’s protegee turned his tactics against him – Washington Post
- Trump Campaign Says It Has Filed Case Against Omarosa Manigault Newman – NY Times
- We Looked At Hundreds Of Endorsements. Here’s Who Democrats Are Listening To. – Five Thirty Eight
- White House Falsely Says Trump Beat Obama on Black Employment – Bloomberg
- Health Care Is Broken. Google Thinks Oscar Health Can Fix It – Wired
- Democrats Must Reclaim the Center … by Moving Hard Left – Politico
- Want a lower tax bill? So do Apple and Genentech – SF Chronicle
- Fed May End Taper This Year Amid Regime Rethink, Pozsar Says – Bloomberg
- The Financial Crisis Cost Every American $70,000, Fed Study Says – Bloomberg
Europe:
- The Danish Model — Don’t Try This at Home – Cato Institute
- China-U.S. Trade Spat Is Just a Start to the Economic Cold War – Bloomberg
- Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil – Daily Beast
- Royal Bank of Scotland pays $4.9 billion for crisis-era misconduct – Reuters
- Barclays set to become Ireland’s biggest bank thanks to Brexit – The Irish Times
Asia:
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- From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads… – Reuters
- Trump’s Trade War Is Rattling China’s Leaders – NY Times
- China is compiling a global registry of Uighurs who have fled persecution, threatening to detain the families of those who don’t comply – Daily Beast
- One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where’s the Global Outrage? – The Intercept
- Mosque demolition stokes unease in Muslim China – BBC
- Activist compares Beijing’s rule in Hong Kong to colonialism – Washington Post
- Pentagon barred from funding Confucius Institutes on American campuses – Washington Post
Trans-Tasman:
- Asked if he supports Fraser Anning’s speech, Bob Katter says: “Absolutely 1000%.” – ABC
- MPs condemn Fraser Anning for controversial maiden speech which called for a ban on Muslims – ABC
- Greens Mehreen Faruqi to become first female Muslim Senator amid Fraser Anning outrage – The Guardian
- Fraser Anning speech ‘straight from Goebbels’ handbook’, says Pauline Hanson – The Guardian
- Fact check: Have wages grown in five years under the Coalition only as much as they did in one year under Labor? – ABC
- More than a million workers ‘short-changed’ on sick leave – The Age
- Centrelink’s new robodebt trial bypasses previous safeguard for mentally ill – The Guardian
- Fractured Liberals need a new brand- ‘broad church’ is no longer working – The Conversation
- Gupta’s billion-dollar renewables program the ‘ultimate liberator’ for Australian industry – ABC
- Govt finally reveals how it plans to target encryption – IT News
- ‘Thousands’ of AK-47 assault rifles could be in Australia, experts say – The Age
- The devil is in the detail of government bill to enable access to communications data – The Conversation
- Turnbull Guarantees Power Bills Will Fall $550 By 2014 – The Shovel
- CSIRO worried Great Barrier Reef Foundation could spend millions of dollars on overheads, emails reveal – ABC
- Twyford says KiwiBuild homes ‘least affected’ by adverse housing market moves – Interest.co.nz
- ‘Vigorous’ first quarter of 2019 seen for house prices – Interest.co.nz
- Auckland’s median house price now lower than it was two years ago – REINZ – Interest.co.nz