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BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

Get the latest updates on our magazine, featuring new and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

Global Inequality and More 3.0

By Branko Milanovic

Global inequality and More 3.0

Notes to Selves by Sarb Johal

After 35+ years of psychology, I quit. Now my journey continues through mid-life and beyond.

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Webworm with David Farrier

David Farrier's weird investigations, quirks & oddities delivered direct to your inbox!

Apricitas Economics

By Joseph Politano

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

Memia

By Ben Reid

Tracking exponential tech, AI, the future as it hurtles towards us and trying to make sense of it all.

Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM)

By Claudia Sahm

My goal is to make economic policy and macroeconomics better.

Three Times Wiser

By Kpaxs

Get smarter, three times over. Sharing big ideas, mental models, brain bugs and principles of wise thinking.

The Mish

By Hamish McNeilly

I'm Hamish McNeilly and my mission is to make The Mish your must read for all things Dunedin.

Emily Writes Weekly

Emily Writes Weekly is a newsletter by me, Emily Writes, hitting your inbox two to three times a week with snark and joy and topical weirdness!

Media News You Need - Curated by Peter Bale

Media and associated news curated by and sometimes commented on by me - a long-time journalist and consultant with a background at major news organisations including Reuters, FT, CNN, and Microsoft. I welcome feedback and new directions.

Peter is the co-host of The Weekly Hoon.

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small world

By David Skilling

Global economics, geopolitics, & policy from a small economy perspective, by David Skilling

Better things are possible

By Malcolm McCracken

Articles discussing, urbanism and policy in Aotearoa

Great detail on re-engineering our cities for housing affordability and emissions reduction.

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Fresh Economic Thinking

By Cameron Murray

New ideas and analysis by Dr Cameron K. Murray

The Micromobility Newsletter

By Team M

The world’s largest newsletter for small vehicles. The future is urban. The future is electric. The future is micro.

The Bad News Letter

By Josh Drummond

It's about ethics in media journalism. And a bunch of other stuff.

The Spinoff Daily

The Spinoff Daily collates all the stories we publish that day into a short, simple and easy-to-read newsletter sent every weekday at 5 pm.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Passion and Perspective from Matthew Yglesias

The Turnstone

By Melanie Newfield

I believe that the science behind important issues should be accessible to everyone

Beijing to Canberra and Back

By Benjamin Herscovitch

Analysis of Australia-China relations

The Political Economy Blog

By Craig Berry

A regular newsletter exploring the political dimensions of economic policy.

Climate Club

By Jenny Sahng

Your quick task list to save the planet! 🌱 We'll send you high-impact climate actions in 5/15/30+ minutes categories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday.

Great detail delivered with joy.

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Cybercultural

By Richard MacManus

Tech history and its impact on our culture.

Museum Street

By Henry Cooke

A newsletter about New Zealand politics from Henry Cooke.

Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

Baiguan - China Insights, Data, Context

By BigOne Lab

Your trusted source for credible, multi-faceted and actionable insights about China.

System Change

By Ann Pettifor

I write about the international financial system and its impact on society, the economy and the ecosystem.

Urbanism Speakeasy with Andy Boenau

Simple truths about city planning & transportation to help you promote healthy infrastructure.

Tara Comics

By Tara Black

Live drawings from book events and comics direct to your inbox.

Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

Make Work Better

By Bruce Daisley

Re-engineering workplace culture for the hybrid age. The latest news and analysis on what comes next for work. (from Bruce Daisley, workplace culture expert published in Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal & The Guardian).

Useful global insight into how the culture and nature of work is changing.

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The Bounce

By Dylan Cleaver

New Zealand's sharpest sports writing and independent analysis.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

The Unconscious Manager

By Dr Andrew Dickson

Saving the world, one manager at a time.

China Articles

By Matt Turpin

A weekly collection of articles and reports about the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Adam Tooze is brilliant.

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Distilled

By Michael Thomas

Deeply researched stories about the politics of climate change

The Weekend

The Weekend is a curation of the best of The Spinoff and other great reads delivered every Saturday morning, with updates and commentary from Shanti Mathias.

Asian Century Stocks

By Michael Fritzell

Discover value stocks in the Asia-Pacific | Go to the "About" page for more information.

Detailed, useful and independent stocks analysis.

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On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

Hamish McKenzie is from Aotearoa and is doing an amazing thing with his co-founders and team at Substack. I'm proud to be a part of it.

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Cranmer’s Substack

By Cranmer's Substack

Independent citizen journalism about politics, culture and law in New Zealand

Detailed analysis and commentary on Three Waters.

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The Macro Compass

By Substack

Financial education, macro insights & actionable investment ideas. From the desk of a former Head of $20 bn Investment Portfolio straight to your inbox.

Stocktake

Business news that isn't boring from The Spinoff. Currently on hiatus.

The Round-Up

By Max Harris

What I'm reading & enjoying in politics, economics, and anything else

CalculatedRisk Newsletter

By CalculatedRisk Real Estate News

Real Estate Data and Analysis

Asymmetric Information

By Dave Heatley

Newsletter of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE). Subscribe for free to receive 1-2 posts per week with interesting takes on NZ and international economic issues.

Adjacent Possible

By Steven Johnson

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.