Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bitcoin dealer seeks credit protection – Times Colonist
- How to tax the rich – The Economist
- Measuring functional specialisation in trade – VOX
- Taxing the Wealthy Sounds Easy. It’s Not. – NY Times
- Why ETFs Will Shine This Tax Season – Barron’s
- A Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin Has Launched on the Ethereum Blockchain – Coin Desk
- Central Bank Douses Quantitative Easing Speculation – Caixin
Americas:
- ’Willful Ignorance.’ Inside President Trump’s Troubled Intel Briefings – Time
- For Some Companies, Tax-Cut Gains Are Smaller Than They Once Appeared – WSJ
- “‘Vicious’ And ‘Brutal’” — Life Inside a Freezing Federal Prison With No Heat – The Intercept
- Over 60, and Crushed by Student Loan Debt – WSJ
- Russia Is Attacking the U.S. System From Within – The Atlantic
- If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving? – Curbed
- The labor market continues to improve – Calafia Beach Pundit
- Venezuelan general defects as anti-Maduro rallies draw huge crowds – Reuters
Europe:
- Queen Elizabeth to be evacuated in case of Brexit unrest: media – Reuters
- Never mind the debt: if there’s a hard Brexit Britain will have to splash the cash – The Times
- Could technology solve the Irish border problem? – BBC
- Russia Pulls Out of Nuclear Treaty in ‘Symmetrical’ Response to U.S. Move – NY Times
- The collective madness behind Britain’s latest Brexit plan – Washington Post
- The EU has no incentive to blink on the Irish border question – FT
Asia:
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- How China Pressured MSCI to Add Its Market to Major Benchmark – WSJ
- Nissan chooses Japan over UK for new car – BBC
- I will battle for Britain in Brussels – The Telegraph
- Tesla rival faces online heat as Nio smart car comes to a halt in Chinese capital – SCMP
- Amazon forced to pull products in India – BBC
- Maldives seeks to renegotiate with China over Belt and Road debt – FT
- Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Telstra offshores to India to fill new software engineering jobs – IT News
- Why the federal government’s new integrity commission isn’t up to the job – The Conversation
- How Australia has strayed from a fair go to record inequality – The Age
- NSW Roads and Maritime Services offshores 30% of new IT work – IT News
- Every drop of sweat: Labor says Morrison is hurting ordinary workers – Canberra Times
- Individual bankers must pay for problems – SBS
- ASIC orders Commonwealth Bank to stop charging financial planning fees – ABC
- Finance sector set for a huge shake-up as government responds to Hayne report – Canberra Times
- The restaurant, the developer, the politician and the $100,000 in cash donations – ABC
- Wealthfare makes even less sense than middle-class welfare – The Guardian
- Annual building consents rise 6.1% – Interest.co.nz
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The RBNZ; From reluctant regulator to rogue regulator – Interest.co.nz
- Kiwi’s impressive recovery continues – Interest.co.nz
- Customers who hoped for blood and gore will be left disappointed – Nine, Ferguson…she is right Hayne has barked loudly but there isn’t too much bite
- Banking Royal Commission: no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn – The Conversation
- Banks may face criminal charges after final royal commission report – Guardian
- Banking royal commission report takes axe to sales culture in finance – ABC, Janda
- There are signs of a government panicking over the possibility of an early election – ABC, Tingle…Tingle is right, they are panicking already and they may come apart on the road to election day…
- Australia Banks Pay Price for Scandals as Pay, Culture Lambasted – Bloomberg