A handful of international headlines worth noting this morning:

• Stop us if you’ve read this before in any one of the last “n” political or economic “crises”: “London and New York lose ground to Asian rivals in finance rankings,” warns the FT, scolding that “Brexit and Donald Trump raise questions over strength of City and Wall St.” Sure. Check back in five years, okay?
• In what’s being billed by the Wall Street Journal as the “most significant challenge to President Vladimir Putin in years,” thousands of demonstrators took to streets in Russian cities including Moscow to protest corruption.
• Not content to let McKinsey sop up all of MBS’s money, Goldman Sachs wants in on the party that KSA and is seeking an equities license, Bloomberg reports. Get ready to lend from your own balance sheet, boys and girls.
• The WSJ is also warning Americans that “foreign robots are invading American factory floors.” Because it would be so much easier to swallow if the bots were ‘Murican, right?

Finally, if you’re as obsessed with US politics as we are, you’ll want to do two things this morning: First, go read “Trump vs. Congress: Now What?” from the New York Times magazine, written after The Donald’s legislative defeat. Then go subscribe to Crooked Media’s Pod Save America podcast. It’s hosted by ridiculously funny (and profane) veterans of the Obama administration. Not a podcast fan? At least check out their bios page (Obama speechwriter Lovett’s is written in Trump’s voice). Already a fan? Newsweek has an interview with the three anchor hoses and the incomparable Kara Swisher interviews the three on stage at SXSW about how they plan to build a media empire.