Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Everything You Need to Know About Capitalism – Teen Vogue
- Bond Traders Are Paid Big to Dump U.S. Treasuries and Go Abroad – Bloomberg
- Don’t mention the oil price – U.S. legal threat prompts change at OPEC – Reuters
- As Easy Money Wanes, Investors Scramble to Adapt – WSJ
Americas:
- Pump and Trump – Propublica
- Fed Officials Debated Hiking Rates to Restrictive Territory – Bloomberg
- How the gutting of the Voting Rights Act led to hundreds of closed polls – Vice
- Is Fraud Part of the Trump Organization’s Business Model? – New Yorker
- U.S. Student Debt May Be a Crisis Now. Soon It Will Be a Catastrophe – Bloomberg
- Fed Officials Debated Hiking Rates to Restrictive Territory – Bloomberg
- McConnell eyes cuts to Medicare, Social Security to address deficit – MSNBC
- U.S. Student Debt May Be a Crisis Now. Soon It Will Be a Catastrophe – Bloomberg
- No, Trump’s Tax Cut Isn’t Paying for Itself (at Least Not Yet) – NY Times
- 1,495 Americans Describe the Financial Reality of Being Really Sick – NY Times
- The deficit is rising, so Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare – VOX
- America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants – Bloomberg
Europe:
- How the gutting of the Voting Rights Act led to hundreds of closed polls – WSJ
- How Tiny Moldova’s Brexit Grudge Could Cost the U.K. $1.7 Trillion – Bloomberg
- Brexit Provides Early Proof of Deglobalization’s Costs – WSJ
- US warns it may bar banks from EU exchanges in clearing fight – FT
- Britain fell for a privatization con trick – The Guardian
- U.S. Stalls U.K. Bid to Stay in $1.7 Trillion Market – Bloomberg
- Danish regulator blocks Danske Bank’s CEO pick – FT
- Divided Britain: study finds huge chasm in attitudes – The Guardian
- Italy’s ambitious budget proposals in charts – FT
- London attracts global finance under Brexit cloud – report – Reuters
Asia:
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- Trump Opens New Front in His Battle With China: International Shipping – NY Times
- Tesla secures Shanghai site for $2 billion China Gigafactory – Reuters
- U.S. Spares China From Currency-Manipulator Label Amid Trade War – Bloomberg
- Hong Kong plans to suspend trading in groups with shaky accounts – FT
- Why China would lose a cold war with America – The Hill
- China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain – The Guardian
- China’s middle class are actually spending less as they save everything for their child’s education – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s population: Forcing migrants to live in regional, rural towns would be a disaster – News.com.au
- Close to five applicants for every entry- level job in Queensland – Brisbane Times
- Coalition hiding criticism to help arms manufacturer a dangerous precedent – The Guardian
- Morrison government transfers refugees to Australia from Nauru amid internal pressure – The SMH
- Senate sinks plebiscite calling for return to ‘White Australia’ policy – SBS
- Battery smart, diesel dumb: The huge costs of South Australia’s dirty back-up plan – Renew Economy
- ScoMo needs a win to repair damage but a final snub from the former PM may prevent this – News.com.au
- Boom turns to bust – falling Australian home prices – AMP Capital
- Scott Morrison’s Australia resembles the 51st American state – New Daily
- Unemployment rate drops to 5pc as full-time jobs boom rolls on – ABC
- O’Dwyer to intervene in casual pay case – SBS
- Remote work-for-dole change likely to fail – SBS
- How rapid transit access adds to property values – Interest.co.nz
- Proposed new GST rules to level playing field between retailers – Interest.co.nz