Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax – Reuters
- Our World Is Run By Global Corporations & Megacities, Not Countries – Citi
- Post Financial Crisis Has Seen the Largest Increase in Commercial Indebtedness on Record – The SoundingLine
- Crypto-Friendly French Finance Minister Fears a Worldwide Economic Crisis – Be In Crypto
- Trump’s trade wars have cost the stock market $5 trillion and counting: Deutsche Bank – CNBC
- America’s oil boom will break more records this year. OPEC is stuck in retreat – CNN
Americas:
- Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 following Bernie Sanders pressure – Business Insider
- The next time the economy tanks, the Fed should give people, not banks, free money – MarketWatch
- U.S. Economy Celebrates 10 Years of Growth, But No One’s Partying – Bloomberg
- America’s Real Economy: It Isn’t Booming – Forbes
- Trump Comments on Antitrust Investigation of Big Tech Fail to Conceal True Motive of Pure Revenge – Gizmodo
- As Trump Suspends New Tariffs on Mexico, Experts Warn That His Threats Damage the U.S. Economy – Time
- The South’s Economy Is Falling Behind: ‘All of a Sudden the Money Stops Flowing.’ – WSJ
- With Venezuela in collapse, towns slip into primitive isolation – Reuters
- Unemployment Rate Hits 50-Year Low – Yet Wage Growth Stays Tepid – NY Mag
- Trump warns Mexico he’ll go back to ‘very profitable’ position on tariffs if cooperation fails – The Hill
Europe:
- Europe Must Fix Its Fiscal Rules – Project Syndicate
- The UK tech sector produces a unicorn ‘each month’ – Techerati
- Moldova in the midst of an anti-oligarchic revolt – New Eastern Europe
- More than a third of Europe’s fastest-growing tech firms are in UK – The Guardian
- Germany’s Aldi enters tough China market – FT
Asia:
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- Trump: If President Xi does not attend G-20, more China tariffs will go into effect immediately – CNBC
- China Is Buying More and More Gold as the Trade War Drags On – Bloomberg
- China’s PBOC Injects $72 Billion to Roll Over Medium-Term Funds – Bloomberg
- China’s Churning Out Revolutionary Cancer Drugs Much Cheaper Than the U.S. – Bloomberg
- Japan’s Buoyant Growth Figures Mask Weaknesses in Economy – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian men are in crisis, with suicide rates rising. Meet some of the men who’ll die this week – News.com.au
- Senator Rex Patrick accuses Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo of intimidation in post-raids phone call – ABC
- The government has dug itself into a deep hole and the walls are crumbling – The AIMN
- Buttrose to meet Morrison as ABC weighs up legal action in wake of raids – SBS
- Australians are good in a crisis. It’s prosperity we haven’t handled – New Daily
- Coalition’s income tax plan will gift highest earners $33bn – The Guardian
- Coalition’s lies, damned lies and election-winning strategies – The Guardian
- Australians could lose $1.3b as banks rush to cut term deposit interest rates: report – SBS
- ANZ economists to the RBNZ: ‘Don’t save your bullets’ – Interest.co.nz
- Signs of a sequel to the bank capital saga emerge – Interest.co.nz
- Demographics will force tax changes – Interest.co.nz