Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- What If We Didn’t… have any unemployment? – Mic
- Marx and modern microeconomics – VOX
- Mark Zuckerberg’s long game: the next billion – Monday Note
- Is Gold Repatriation A Trend? – Kitco
- The Looming Battle Over AI Chips – Barrons
- Crypto Founder Tweets From Beach, Investors Fear for Their Cash – Bloomberg
- Cryptocurrency Firms, Investors Seek Exemption From SEC Oversight – WSJ
- Hedge Fund Titans Pull Money From Funds to Pay Massive Tax Bills – Bloomberg
- World Bank recommends fewer regulations protecting workers – The Guardian
Americas:
- Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore – NY Times
- Cory Booker’s new big idea: guaranteeing jobs for everyone who wants one – VOX
- Bad News for President Trump – The Atlantic
- How Many U.S. Dollar Bills Are There in Circulation? – Visual Capitalist
- In Message to Trump, Europe and Mexico Announce Trade Pact – NY Times
- Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes – Washington Post
- Winners and losers from rising American inequality – VOX
- High prices in America’s cities are reviving the suburbs – The Economist
- A U.S. recession ahead? Fed policymakers say not to worry – Reuters
- Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border – NY Times
Europe:
- The best pastries in Paris, according to top chefs – Bloomberg
- EU suspects tax fraud at China’s new gateway to Europe – Reuters
- How Switzerland Lost a Currency Battle, but Won the War – WSJ
- Spanish now richer than Italians, IMF data show – FT
- The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations – BuzzFeed
- Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power – WSJ
Asia:
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- U.S. Hints at a China Truce as World Warns of Trade-War Threat – Bloomberg
- “The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State” – Foreign Affairs
- Report: GOP fundraiser’s China connection – NY Times
- China leads asylum seekers in the U.S. – Axios
- WeChat’s fake news problem – CJR
- Xi Jinping claims progress on national security in meeting of secretive commission – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- We’re starting to give up on the ideal of Australia as a nation of equals – ABC
- Uber Eats imposes ‘unfair contracts’ and ruins deliveries, restaurateurs allege – ABC
- Tax cuts to low-paid would help us all – Canberra Times
- Private school enrolments projected to flatline as parents choose public – The SMH
- Greens propose five-point plan to phase out live sheep exports – Brisbane Times
- The right to free speech doesn’t make really bad ideas any better – The SMH
- Kelly O’Dwyer forced to admit banks royal commission was needed – The Guardian
- Scope of Great Barrier Reef’s massive coral bleaching alarms scientists – NBC News
- States wave through NEG that is even worse than thought – Renew Economy
- Failed charity’s $1m splurge on publicity campaign approved by government – Canberra Times
- The cost of getting well in Australia is keeping us sick – The Guardian
- Kochie is seems genuinely surprised to hear that Alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous then weed – News.com.au
- Nearly $4 Billion In Regional Economic Benefits Created By Australian Wind Power – Clean Technica
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‘We need to have a more efficient, level playing field around tax’ – Interest.co.nz
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Sorry IMF, but we need to close the door on foreign house buyers – Interest.co.nz
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