Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Blockchain Will Be Most of the Economy in 10-20 Years – Coin Desk
- Warren Buffett Is No Fan of Modern Monetary Theory – Bloomberg
- The Hidden Risk When You Own Stocks for the Long Run – WSJ
- What’s wrong with the WTO’s Environmental Goods Agreement – VOX
- The Twenty Craziest Investing Facts Ever – The Irrelevant Investor
- Liquidity is the scary absentee in stocks’ rebound – FT
- The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them. – Washington Post
- The Era of Cheap Money Shows No One Knows How Monetary Policy Works – Bloomberg
Americas:
- How Sears Lost the American Shopper – WSJ
- American Colonists Had a Modern Monetary Theory of Their Own – Bloomberg
- Capitalism Needs Elizabeth Warren – NY Times
- Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place? – HBR
- The Fed Should Buy Recession Insurance – Project Syndicate
- Trump issues first veto of his presidency – Politico
- Actually, consumers love Big Tech, even if they say they don’t – The Hill
- Americans Are Going Bankrupt From Getting Sick – The Atlantic
Europe:
- How backstop deal was done and why Cox blew it apart – RTE
- Nigel Farage will not complete Brexit Betrayal march despite urging supporters to join him – PO
- Paris luxury stores looted, burned in ’yellow vest’ riots – Yahoo
- Jeremy Corbyn may not back bid for second EU referendum until after Brexit deal agreed – Politics Home
- EU sets out July 1 deadline in Brexit delay plans – FT
- EU will agree to extra time if there is a second Brexit referendum – The Times
- Who governs Britain? – FT
- Why Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank Are Limping to Altar – Washington Post
Asia:
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- As China Faces Slowdown, Stimulus Will Have Smaller Global Reach – WSJ
- Why China Silenced a Clickbait Queen in Its Battle for Information Control – NY Times
- Trump-Xi meeting to end trade war may be pushed back to June, sources say – SCMP
- Selling China Short – Project Syndicate
- China’s Still-Too-High Savings Makes China 2025 a Bigger Global Risk – Council on Foreign Relations
- China may overtake the US with the best AI research in just two years – Tech Review
- China may soon run its first annual current-account deficit in decades – The Economist
Trans-Tasman:
- Ardern is a leader for our times, and we should follow her example – The Age
- Fraser Anning Filmed Hitting A Young Protester Who Egged Him In Melbourne – Junkee
- In November, the Morrison government passed legal changes to override state donation laws – The Guardian
- About 150,000 people took part in climate strikes across the country on Friday – SBS
- Australian government urged to ban Milo Yiannopoulos after Christchurch massacre – The Guardian
- Australia provided fertile ground for Islamophobic culture, experts say – Washington Post
- Expulsion of Senators and MPs from Parliament (Analysis) – ABC
- Reporting a massacre: Why the ABC didn’t share the shooter’s ‘manifesto’ – ABC
- In Australia, Anti-Immigrant Racism Is Everywhere – Slate
- A letter to our leaders: as Australian Muslims we live in fear, please remember our pain – The Guardian
- Friday essay: why is Australian satire so rarely risky? – The Conversation
- Part-time work is a full-time problem for younger workers – ABC
- City of snails: Auckland’s traffic is worse than Sydney’s – Interest.co.nz