Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- MMT Has Been Around for Decades. Here’s Why It Just Caught Fire – Bloomberg
- Amazon to end price practice critics said could violate antitrust law – Axios
- How the Internet Travels Across Oceans – NY Times
- The US, China and the return of a two-bloc world – FT
- Global Economy Hits Its Weakest Spell Since Financial Crisis – Bloomberg
- Household credit cycles and financial crises – VOX
- Modern Taxation Theory – Medium
Americas:
- If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will – The Atlantic
- New York Attorney General Opens Investigation of Trump Projects – NY Times
- America’s Defining Divide Isn’t Left vs. Right. It’s Old vs. Young. – Huffington Post
- The president regularly spends the weekend hobnobbing privately with rich clients – Washington Post
- Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence on Trump’s foreign policy – Washington Post
- Cheney grills Pence on Trump’s foreign policy – Politico
- US financial transaction tax would put unfair burden on savers – FT
- The Experts Keep Getting the Economy Wrong – NY Times
- Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Of The U.S. Government – The WhiteHouse
- U.S. retail sales rebound but not enough to jolt slowing economy – Reuters
Europe:
- Drop Huawei or See Intelligence Sharing Pared Back, U.S. Tells Germany – WSJ
- Negotiating documents on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom – EU
- May claims revised Brexit deal with Juncker – FT
- London’s Finance Industry Has Decided: Brexit Is Already a Reality – WSJ
- Former Australian PM calls Brexit trade plan ‘utter bollocks’ – The Guardian
- Algeria president drops bid for fifth term – BBC
- How a Russian Gas Pipeline Is Driving a Wedge Between the U.S. and Its Allies – WSJ
- Brussels has treated the British Government with condescension bordering on contempt over Brexit – The Telegraph
- Indian migrants to UK surge ahead of Brexit – UK
- UK business investment set to stay low on Brexit doubts – BoE’s Haskel – Reuters
Asia:
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- Japan to forgo inviting China’s Xi as state guest in June – Nikkei
- Chinese Entrepreneur Takes On the System, and Drops Out of Sight – NY Times
- UK business investment set to stay low on Brexit doubts – BoE’s Haskel – FT
- If those prison camps in Xinjiang are so benign, why is this man behind bars? – Washington Post
- China’s Economic Slowdown, Explained – Foreign Affairs
- China’s electric cars are government spies – Qz
Trans-Tasman:
- How and why did the Northern Territory sell the Darwin Port to China, and at what risk? – ABC
- Since the Coalition won government in 2013 our living standards have gone down – The Guardian
- Greens unveil $4 billion nature plan to protect national parks and end logging in native forests – News.com.au
- Modelling suggests Snowy 2.0 will lift prices, defend coal, kill batteries – Renew Economy
- To reduce fire risk and meet climate targets, over 300 scientists call for stronger land clearing laws – The Conversation
- ‘Shut up’: NSW Nationals leader unleashes on federal colleagues for wrecking state campaign – The SMH
- Nationals deputy leader says Australia is ‘frustrated’ at Barnaby Joyce – The Guardian
- Andrew Robb blames former Coalition leaders for ‘toxic’ relationship with China – ABC
- NSW election: changing tide threatens to leave Nationals stranded on far-north coast – The Guardian
- Twyford won’t extend Smith’s Special Housing Areas legislation – Interest.co.nz