Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Anonymous Bitcoin Donor Rains $56 Million on Stunned Nonprofits – The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Crypto’s Hottest Hires Aren’t Millennials. They’re Banking Cops – Bloomberg
- Inside Wall Street’s Complex, Shameful, and Often Confidential Battle with #MeToo – Vanity Fair
- Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Accused of Swindling $5 Billion of Cryptocurrency – Bloombrg
- Passive Becomes the New Active as Indexing Rules Everything – Bloomberg
- Dalio Says Central Banks Face Challenge After ‘Goldilocks’ Phase – Bloomberg
- The American Midwest is quickly becoming a blue-collar version of Silicon Valley – Quartz
- Dividends Climb Amid Rising Competition From Bonds – WSJ
- Bitcoin Bitterness Starts to Make Messy Divorces Even Worse – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Kushner’s overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage – Washington Post
- Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence – Politico
- Trump’s Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages – NY Times
- 5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off-the-Record MIT Speech – Reason
- Manhattan Landlords Cut Deals to Stave Off Vacant Storefronts – Bloomberg
- Ex-Fed chief Yellen casts doubt on raising 2% U.S. inflation target – MarketWatch
- Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress – Federal Reserve
- Foreign Investors Pile Into U.S. Student Housing – WSJ
Europe:
- Boris Johnson tells PM: Wrong to see Govt task as ’no Irish border’ after Brexit – Sky
- A Modern Greek Tragedy – NY Review of Books
- $1 Trillion Fund Committed to U.K. No Matter What Brexit Outcome – Bloomberg
- Italy Is Having an Election. Most Italians Are Too Depressed to Care. – NY Times
- EU to demand indefinite ECJ oversight after Brexit – FT
- Goldman May Sell Its $1.4 Billion New European HQ in London – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Chinese capital dangles carrots to lure foreign talent – Reuters
- Chinese workers build railway station in just nine hours – The Independent
- China’s Stability Myth Is Dead – Foreign Policy
- North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas in 90s – Reuters
- China’s Bailouts Won’t End With Anbang – Bloomberg
- Japanese Are Selling U.S. Bonds Over Budget, Dollar Fears – WSJ
- China to Crack Down on Cryptocurrency Trading Loophole – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- NSW Liberals ordered to repay $250,000 in unlawful election donations – The SMH
- Home doctor services to close in wake of Turnbull government cuts – The SMH
- Network expert says govt NBN paper ‘seriously flawed’ – ITWire
- No factual errors found in Alberici tax policy articles on ABC, Senate hears – The Guardian
- Bill Shorten Slams Turnbull For ‘Liberating The Rich’ In GQ Interview – GQ
- $2.2bn funding cut to universities ‘a cap on opportunity for all’ – The Guardian
- NBN faces irrelevance in cities as competitors build faster, cheaper alternatives – The Conversation
- ATO to investigate ‘systemic abuse’ of $22 billion in work expense claims – The SMH
- Western Australia to cop slowest NBN connections – The West
- $1bn visa processing contract could go to Turnbull friend, says Labor – The Guardian
- Remember the Government’s Plan To Drug Test Unemployed Young People? It’s Back. – BuzzFeed
- ‘Not good enough’: ACCC slams gas market for keeping prices too high – The SMH
- It’s time electricity prices started to come down – The SMH
- Govt told to consider sport tax incentives – SBS
- Recent trend of declining migration gain looks fairly fragile – Interest.co.nz
