Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why further financial crises are inevitable – FT
- Bitcoin Is in the Dumps, Spreading Gloom Over Crypto World – WSJ
- How to tax the rich, explained – VOX
- Vitol warns oil demand to peak within 15 years – FT
- Forget Tesla, It’s China’s E-Buses That Are Denting Oil Demand – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog – The Atlantic
- Joe Biden Tells Supporters He Plans 2020 Bid – WSJ
- Trump won’t get sustained ‘boom’ without an infrastructure bill and more tax cuts, new White House report shows – Washington Post
- The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee – MarketWatch
- Mysterious Buyer Pumps $2.9 Million Into President Trump’s Coffers – Forbes
- Medicare for America, Beto O’Rourke’s favorite health care plan, explained – VOX
- Getting Real About Rural America – NY Times
Europe:
- Theresa May should have taken my father’s advice on Brexit – The Telegraph
- Eurosceptic Tories use covert talks to call on EU countries to veto Brexit extension – The Telegraph
- EU warns ‘new political process’ needed for long Brexit delay – FT
- May to ask EU for Brexit date delay – BBC
- ECB bank supervisor Enria criticises ‘national champion’ mergers – FT
- May warns UK faces ‘crisis’ following Bercow ruling – FT
- Theresa May’s Brexit struggles have resolved nothing – FT
- Germany Plans to Renege on Pledge to Raise Military Spending, Defying Trump – WSJ
- Another Brexit vote not ruled out – BBC
- The UK labour market is booming Goldilocks style – Notayesmanseconomics’s Blog
- Believe me, the Civil Service is trying to sink Brexit. I have seen it from the inside – The Telegraph
- Brexit in crisis as PM May plots a course around speaker’s obstruction – Reuters
Asia:
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- Almost one-third of Chinese cities are shrinking, but urban planners told to keep building – SCMP
- US farmers being cut out of Japan after TPP withdrawal – FT
- U.S. Chip Industry Is Cool on Chinese Purchase Offer – WSJ
- China overinvested in coal power: Here’s why – VOX
- Google’s work in China indirectly benefiting Chinese military: U.S. general – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- A public servant sacked for anonymously tweeting her private views about Australia’s immigration policies will front the High Court – ABC
- ‘Smacks of revolving door’: treasury official nabbed top job at asset he was trying to privatise – The SMH
- A ‘free’ public school education can cost $1,300 a year — and it’s getting harder for parents to say no – ABC
- Social media giants to escape $200 million tax in Australian federal budget – The Age
- Ugly and disgusting lie’: Scott Morrison attacks eight-year old report about Muslim immigration – The SMH
- Australian coal in the firing line of Chinese ‘environmental’ crackdown – The Age
- ATO ramps up its focus on rental properties and hosts on platforms such as Airbnb – ABC
- Climate change spending is a gratuitous waste’: NSW Treasurer backs comments made in 2015 – 9News
- Kelly O’Dwyer to unveil biggest changes to employment services in two decades – Canberra Times
- The Government wants to free up your bank data. – ABC
- NSW Coalition would need to borrow $7bn to fund election promises, analysis shows – The Guardian
- Why $110 billion is not enough to fix Sydney’s transport woes – ABC
- Queensland fines revenue on track to nudge half-a-billion dollars, figures reveal – ABC
- NZ debts to other countries remain manageable – Interest.co.nz
- Auckland Council details funding concerns for transport projects – Interest.co.nz
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