Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks – Visual Capitalist
- Gulf tanker incidents may raise shippers’ costs, cut traffic – ABC
- Demand for Cryptocurrency Explodes in Zimbabwe After Foreign Currency Ban – BeInCrypto
- A rally and a redirect: why the markets are so focused on the Fed – Reuters
- Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate – Reason
- Big Tech Claims It’s Not Choking Competitors, but Data Suggests Otherwise – Ad Week
- Fed’s Bullard sees cryptocurrencies shifting U.S. financial system – Yahoo
- The Overplayed, Turbohyped, and Underwhelming World of Artificial Intelligence – Institutional Investor
Americas:
- Farmers Earn More From YouTube Than Their Crops – Bloomberg
- How US importers cope with Trump’s tariffs – Asia Times
- Trump has reportedly tasked aides to find a way to weaken the US dollar – CNBC
- Why foreign buyers are fleeing the U.S. housing market – Yahoo
- The Numbers Are In, and Trump’s Tax Cuts Are a Bust – Truth Dig
- Elizabeth Warren Is Proposing New Regulations on the Private Equity Industry – Inc
- J.C. Penney shares tank as another big retailer spirals down – CBS News
Europe:
- Records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from the country’s tax revenue office – CNN
- Polish police arrest 25 people after attacks on first LGBT march – Euro News
- Former Austrian Chancellor Lands Russian Job – Moscow Times
- Londoners ‘skipping work because they cannot afford the commute’ – Standard
- Germany must tackle its far-right problem, says foreign minister – The Times
- An entire nation just got hacked – CNN
Asia:
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- The United States Is Going After China’s Banks – Foreign Policy
- King stands undecided and sceptical over 5G supplies form China – Economy Club
- BlackRock’s Fink: CEOs tell me they’re pulling their supply chains out of China – CNBC
- Pakistan Lost Over 8 Billion Rupees Due To Airspace Closure – Yuv News
- China’s debt at 303% of GDP, 15% of global total: Report – Times of India
Trans-Tasman:
- Name and shame tax evaders, says journalist behind Panama Papers – ABC
- Pyne and Bishop’s new jobs do not breach ministerial standards, investigation finds – ABC
- Silent, no gears and cheaper every day: electric cars aren’t so hard to get used to – The Guardian
- Low rates won’t boost wages, RBA and government warned – The SMH
- ‘We are sexual beings’: why disability advocates want the NDIS to cover sexual services – The Guardian
- Protesters face tougher fines of up to $400,000, potential jail time as NSW beefs up farm trespass laws – ABC
- Doctors push for a minimum price on alcohol in NSW – The SMH
- No lights, no linen: How Alex survived for six years on Newstart – The SMH
- Peter Dutton sets up showdown over foreign fighters bill amid fears of overreach – The Guardian
- Aussie states are burning up with hydrogen fever… and now even cooking with it – Stock Head
- ‘Six years and I didn’t achieve anything’: inside Manus, a tropical purgatory – The Guardian
- BNZ gives to borrowers and takes from savers – Interest.co.nz
- Another week in tax; Should we change the way we calculate FBT on cars? – Interest.co.nz