Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Turns Out That Trillion-Dollar Bailout Was, in Fact, Real – Rolling Stone
- Wall Street’s Latest Love Affair With Risky Repackaged Debt – NY Times
- Tesla is asking employees to volunteer and help deliver 30,000 cars before the end of the quarter – Business Insider
- At Hedge Fund That Owns Trump Secrets, Clashes and Odd Math – Bloomberg
- Many S&P 500 CEOs Got a Raise in 2018 That Lifted Their Pay to $1 Million a Month – WSJ
- Market Rebound Reaches Crossroads After Latest Rally – WSJ
- Central bank digital currencies and private banks – VOX
Americas:
- Trump Budget Relies on Up to $1.2 Trillion in Potentially Phantom Revenues – WSJ
- Trump secretly hates “crazy” driverless cars – Axios
- How Are Those Steel Tariffs Working? – WSJ
- The Fed has exacerbated America’s new housing bubble – FT
- Jamie Dimon says we’ve split the US economy, leaving the poor behind – CNBC
- As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling – NY Times
- Poll: Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a ’witch hunt’ as trust in Mueller erodes – USA Today
Europe:
- Speaker makes Brexit vote ruling – BBC
- Brexiteers threaten to go on ’vote strikes’ if PM delays Brexit by a year – The Sun
- UK Speaker John Bercow blocks more votes on unchanged Brexit deal – CNN
- France’s EU minister names her cat ’Brexit’ because ‘he meows loudly… – The Independent
- Third Brexit vote must be different – Speaker – BBC
- Fresh vote on May’s Brexit plan faces threat of block – FT
- The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit” – New Yorker
- Brexit: John Bercow rules out third meaningful vote on same deal – The Guardian
- ECB attacks EU plans for boosting supervision of clearing houses – FT
- Brexit will mark the end of Britain’s role as a great power – Washington Post
- More than £100bn of UK property is secretly owned – The Guardian
- Brexiteers ignore the US-Irish lobby at their peril – The Times
- Wales ’hit harder’ by migrant salary plan – BBC
Asia:
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- U.S. Chip Industry Is Cool on Chinese Purchase Offer – WSJ
- US farmers being cut out of Japan after TPP withdrawal – FT
- Trump-Xi meeting to end trade war may be pushed back to June, sources say – SCMP
- China plans multibillion-dollar investment to knock US from top spot in fastest supercomputer ranking – SCMP
- Why China Silenced a Clickbait Queen in Its Battle for Information Control – NY Times
- China Gains on U.S. in Highly Cited AI Research – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Low pay won’t fix itself’: experts call for action on wages as election nears – The Guardian
- Why Waleed Aly’s words stung the PM and what it means for the 2019 federal election – New Daily
- ScoMo Wants To Suspend Live Streaming – Gizmodo
- More people than ever need a second job to help pay the bills – The Guardian
- Telstra and Vodafone temporarily block websites after Christchurch attack – IT News
- Can the Darwin Port’s 99-year lease to China be reversed? And what role, if any, did Andrew Robb play? – ABC
- Coalition set to slash Australia’s migration intake – 9News
- House prices tumble even faster than during the GFC – The Age
- Australia’s $133b property price slide rapidly becoming the worst in modern history – ABC
- NSW election 2019: Red tape sees bar ‘banned’ from having a mirror ball – News.com.au
- How older Australians captured a growing share of the nation’s wealth – The Age
- Calls mount for expanded Medicare-funded dental care in Australia – ABC
- ANZ economists predict drop in tourist numbers – Interest.co.nz