Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Looking for Hope in the Rubble of Value Investing – WSJ
- Emerging Markets Aren’t Out of the Woods Yet – Foreign Affairs
- What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism? – Project Syndicate
- JPMorgan Sees Lower Need for Hedges Amid Volatility Bear Market – Bloomberg
- How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood – NY Times
- Central bank digital currencies and private banks – VOX
- Bitcoin Trading Plummets in Venezuela Blackout as Government Struggles to Pay Money Printers – Bitcoinist
- How Investors Should Navigate Globalization’s Decline – Barron’s
- The geopolitics of bilateral trade agreements – VOX
- Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages – NY Times
- What’s wrong with the WTO’s Environmental Goods Agreement – VOX
- The Era of Cheap Money Shows No One Knows How Monetary Policy Works – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump secretly hates “crazy” driverless cars – Axios
- Venture capitalist spreading funding to Middle America – CBS News
- Federal Reserve Rate Projections Could Show Greater Confidence in Extended Pause – WSJ
- The Fed has exacerbated America’s new housing bubble – FT
- ‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters – NY Times
- As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling – NY Times
- How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter? – NY Times
- Bernie Sanders in the 1970s urged nationalization of most major industries – CNN
- The Fed Should Buy Recession Insurance – Project Syndicate
- My Housing Plan for America – Medium
- Most U.S. unauthorized immigrants live in just 20 metro areas – Pew Research
- Trump’s trade war cost U.S. economy $7.8 billion in 2018: study – Reuters
Europe:
- Dutch PM compares Theresa May to Monty Python limbless knight – The Guardian
- Deutsche Bank Is in Talks With Commerzbank After Turnaround Efforts Failed – Bloomberg
- 230,000 applications for Irish passports since January – RTE
- EU will agree to extra time if there is a second Brexit referendum – The Times
- Paris luxury stores looted, burned in ’yellow vest’ riots – Yahoo
- EU sets out July 1 deadline in Brexit delay plans – FT
Asia:
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- U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist – NY Times
- Trade Fight With China Enters Overtime, With Tariffs a Costly Sticking Point – NY Times
- 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
- Selling China Short – Project Syndicate
- China’s Still-Too-High Savings Makes China 2025 a Bigger Global Risk – Council on Foreign Relations
Trans-Tasman:
- Poisoning the Well: Liberal spending splurge to bury Labor in debt – Michael West
- Calls mount for expanded Medicare-funded dental care in Australia – ABC
- Our PM is telling fairytales while Ardern does something radical – The Age
- Questions raised over how $1bn of emissions funding have been allocated – The Guardian
- Energy analysts forecast ‘the end of coal’ in Asia as Japanese investors back renewables – The Guardian
- Billion-dollar boost for hospital upgrades promised by ALP – Canberra Times
- Alt-right extremists are not being monitored effectively – The Age
- How Australian transport authorities played cat and mouse with Uber’s Greyball – ABC
- ‘Dozens’ of right-wing extremists on Victorian terror watchlist – SBS
- Free public transport is an attractive idea. But would it solve our traffic woes? – ABC
- Crunch time looming for Aussie dollar speculators – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ economists predict drop in tourist numbers – Interest.co.nz