Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas. – Washington Post
- The Incredible Shrinking Trump Boom – NY Times
- Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point – NY Times
- The Revolution Need Not Be Automated – Project Syndicate
- Largest Cuts to S&P 500 EPS Estimates Since First Quarter of 2016 – Fact Set
- Crypto Exchange Bithumb Hacked for $13 Million in Suspected Insider Job – Coin Desk
- The Costs of Inflation – Supply-Side Liberal
- Disruption and credit markets – VOX
- Capitalism Needs Reform, Not Revolution – Bloomberg
- R&D investment, export market exposure, and trade policy – VOX
- Capitalism Needs Reform, Not Revolution – Bloomberg
- The World’s 7.5 Billion People, in One Chart – Visual Capitalist
- Global Bond-Market Investors Are Getting Really Nervous – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000 – The Guardian
- White House Economic Adviser Says Fed Should Cut Rates – WSJ
- Trump is the world’s worst cheat at golf, players and celebs say – NY Post
- US halting aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – The Hill
- The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high – Washington Post
- Trump Threatens to Close Mexican Border Next Week Over Immigration – NY Times
Europe:
- Furious Tory MPs tell May: we’ll block snap Brexit election – The Guardian
- The cost of Brexit to December 2018: Towards relative decline? – CER
- Brexit: Home truths – no deal and the Irish border – RTE
- Waiting for Brexit – New Yorker
- Ghost Villages Are for Sale in Spain – Bloomberg
- Russia Is Dumping U.S. Dollars to Hoard Gold – Bloomberg
- MPs debate way forward for Brexit – BBC
- WeWork’s Extreme Growth Model Is Worrying European Bankers – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- China’s media companies are failing at home, failing abroad and failing Xi Jinping – SCMP
- Goldman’s China-backed fund bucks trade tensions to buy… – Reuters
- China, U.S. Pore Over Details of Agreement Text to End Trade War – Bloomberg
- China Floats Cloud Concession to Foreign Tech Firms in U.S. Trade Talks – WSJ
- A Chinese Law Professor Criticized Xi. Now He’s Been Suspended. – NY Times
- China makes unprecedented proposals on tech, trade talks… – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Single-use plastic bags and microbeads will be banned across Australia from 2021 under a Labor plan to cut waste – SBS
- Infrastructure department has $250,000 a day for ads before election – The Guardian
- Chinese authorities accused of intimidating Uyghurs in Australia – ABC
- Bill Shorten promises to appoint a woman as Australia’s next governor-general – The SMH
- Buried Down Under? Australia faces trash crisis as India bans plastic waste imports – RT
- Sixty-nine millionaires paid zero tax in 2016-17 – ABC
- ‘I’m hungry to start the work’: Bill Shorten’s five-year journey has just weeks left to run – The SMH
- Climate change and when human nature can lead to rejection of science – ABC
- Snow is falling as communities confront the aftermath of tropical cyclones – New Daily
- Australia’s first manufactured electric car ‘nothing like Tesla’ – ABC
- ‘We’re going to see young people die’: Ecstasy use by school students doubles in three years – The SMH
- Renewables produced more energy than brown coal and gas over summer – The Guardian
- ‘The best political statement on urban development I ever heard’ – Interest.co.nz
- New dwelling consents hit record high nationwide for February – Interest.co.nz
