Victor Rubin, Ward 369: An indicative cage, 1987, Art Gallery of NSW
Global Macro
- Western liberalism is obsolete, warns Putin, ahead of May meeting – Guardian
- G20: Europe tells US and China their trade war is harming global economy – SCMP
- G20 Osaka: as China, India and Russia draw close, has Trump overplayed his hand? – SCMP
- G20 heads struggle to narrow differences beyond their concern on global growth – Reuters
- US-China tensions — unmanned military craft raise risk of war – Nikkei
- U.S. and China Angle for Trade Truce, but Both Insist the Other Will Back Down – NY Times
- ‘My Plan B Is Maybe My Plan A’: Trump Threatens New Tariffs on China – NY Times
- How China could wrest global leadership from U.S. at the G-20 – MarketWatch
- The G20 summit is going to test Trump’s foreign policy – Vox
- Rethinking US-China competition: Next generation perspectives – Brookings
- Central banks ‘have run out of ammunition,’ says OECD head – CNBC
- The Golden Era For Multinationals Is Over-Now What? – ValueWalk
- The threat of recession looms over this G20 summit – Prospect, Magnus
Asia
- China tries to bridge gap in knowledge about the US following criticism that misreading of Donald Trump helped trigger trade war – SCMP
- China Is Walking a Monetary Tightrope as Trade War Plays Out – Bloomberg
- Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China’s economy and may trigger central bank response – ABC
- Hong Kong protesters go offline to dodge China’s digital surveillance – CBC
- Xi and Abe inch closer under Trump’s ‘America first’ pressure – Nikkei
- India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear. Otherwise hundreds of millions of lives will be in danger – CNN
- China’s banks face cash crunch fears after authorities seize lender – CNBC
- Trade war spooks the South Korean economy – Asia Times
Americas
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- Trump’s Hated Deficits Are the Source of U.S. Strength – Bloomberg, Fickling
- U.S. Is Heading to a Future of Zero Interest Rates Forever – Bloomberg, Smith
- Fearful of another recession, Americans are losing sleep over their finances – MarketWatch
- Bernie Sanders is winning the internet. Will it win him the White House? – Vox
- Bank of America cuts ties with the private prison industry – Vox
- Six facts about wealth in the United States – Brookings
- Bernie Sanders Wants to Forgive All Student Debt. His Plan Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense. – Slate
- Is The Fed Already Behind The Curve? – Zero Hedge
Europe
- Why One Brexit Trade Myth Refuses to Die – Bloomberg
- Brexit: Impacts and prospects – VoxEU
- Putin Doesn’t Care About Economic Growth – Project-Syndicate, Inozemtsev
- Boris Johnson’s Big Lie – Project-Syndicate, Verhofstadt
- Ford to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe – Deutsche Welle
- The Greek colony remains in depression – Bill Mitchell
- Make no mistake: Britain is on the cusp of a constitutional crisis of epic proportions – Prospect
- How the Brexit referendum caused a new division in UK politics – RTE
Terra Incognita
- How Israel Folau and religious freedom could define Scott Morrison’s leadership – ABC
- Christopher Pyne and the revolving door of MPs turned lobbyists – Guardian
- Victorian gold rush revival digs in as surging price, investment in deeper mines sees production double – ABC
- ACCC loses flushable wipes case as Federal Court rules they pose ‘insignificant’ risk – ABC
- Australian household wealth has taken its biggest dive since the GFC, but things are looking up – The Conversation
- Real-time pricing to mark biggest electricity market change since birth in 1996 – NZ Herald
- New Zealand ‘fake meat’ pizza was not misleading, says Hell Pizza – BBC
- Chill running through Australia’s boardrooms as directors feel the heat – Ninefax
- Birmingham’s trade play: A new pan-Asian trade pact without the US could be a very good thing – The Monthly
…and furthermore…
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- Faces for cookware: data collection industry flourishes as China pursues AI ambitions – Reuters
- Western intelligence hacked ‘Russia’s Google’ Yandex to spy on accounts – sources – Reuters
- Pot edibles could lead to higher life insurance premiums – CBC
- How 19th century ideas influenced today’s attitudes to women’s beauty – The Conversation
- Inflation and exchange rate targeting challenges under fiscal dominance since the Global Crisis – VoxEU
- Financial crises and the dynamics of financial de-liberalisation – VoxEU
- The individual consequences of occupational decline – VoxEU
- Why Policymakers Should Fear Libra – Project-Syndicate, Basu
- ‘Only one left in your size!’ How e-commerce’s dark patterns manipulate your shopping – Financial Post
- Why we need to talk about cheating – BBC
- Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a world order – Economist
- Wealth Should Trickle Up, Not Down – Michael Pettis
- Facebook’s Libra: Does the World Need Frictionless Money? – Michael Pettis
- Russia’s Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘outlived its purpose’ – CNBC
- Dalai Lama: Europe Will Turn “Muslim Or African” If Migrants Not Returned “To Their Own Land” – Zero Hedge