Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Return to Protectionism – UCLA
- Investors Scale Back Inflation Bets, Signaling Doubts About Growth – WSJ
- Here’s How Vulnerable Asset Managers Really Are – Institutional Investor
- Macro reasons to loath protectionism – VOX
Americas:
- Shale Companies, Adding Ever More Wells, Threaten Future of U.S. Oil Boom – WSJ
- To Woo a Skeptical Trump, Intelligence Chiefs Talk Economics Instead of Spies – NY Times
- Rising Seas Soaked Home Owners for $16 Billion over 12 Years – Scientific American
- Trump loses wind power legal costs battle – BBC
- How Goes the Trade War? – NY Times
- The U.S. national debt has surged past $22 trillion, but does it really matter? – Axios
- Trump loves tariffs. Congress needs to rein him in – LA Times
- Do U.S. Budget Deficits Matter? Not to Today’s Left or Right – Barron’s
- This is what 150 years of US employment looks like – WEForum
- San Francisco’s outrageous rent hits a new peak of $3,690, highest in the US – CNET
Europe:
- Tory Brexiteers offer peace terms to Theresa May – The Times
- The EU smells our fear and thinks we are biddable. It’s time to walk out of the room – The Telegraph
- Don’t let smears about US farms trap Britain into the EU’s Museum of Agriculture – The Telegraph
- May pledges funds for Labour towns in bid to win Brexit support – FT
- When Britain chose Europe – FT
- Theresa May’s Team Fears She Will Lose The Second “Meaningful Vote” And Is Now Plotting A Third Attempt – BuzzFeed
Asia:
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- U.S., China Close In on Trade Deal – WSJ
- U.S., China Are Close to Trade Deal That May End American Tariffs – Bloomberg
- As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations – NY Times
- China gains the upper hand over Germany – FT
- Trump Should Take Aim at China’s Joint-Venture Rule – Bloomberg
- Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou files lawsuit alleging breach of constitutional rights – Globe & Mail
- China banned millions of people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018 – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- Treasury has no documents or modelling that backs the government’s promise to create 1.25 million jobs over five years – SBS
- Scott Morrison: my team is ‘strong and stable’, despite five ministers quitting – The Guardian
- Why using taxable income to attack Labor’s negative gearing, capital gains and dividend imputation policies is misleading – ABC
- Perth now has the lowest median house value of any state capital (was the highest through ’06/’07) – PBS
- Climate change policies major battleground in NSW election – ABC
- Australia planning to import LNG: What’s next? Coals to Newcastle? – Reuters
- Not-so-secret men’s business raises more questions of leadership – New Daily
- ‘Numerous jobs and professions will change’: up to six million could be lost from automation – The Age
- Australia’s latest 20 youth unemployment hotspots ranked – MediaNet
- Six former Liberal politicians-turned-ambassadors could be recalled under Labor hit list – Brisbane Times
- Angus Taylor again falsely claims Australia’s greenhouse emissions are falling – The Guardian
- ‘Right to repair’ regulation necessary, say small businesses and environmentalists – ABC
- Push for higher emissions reduction target – SBS
- Central & local govt join forces to tackle Auckland housing & growth issues – Interest.co.nz