Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Speculators smash gold as dollar squeeze tightens – The Telegraph
- 7 Reasons Why Gold Is Plunging Again – ETF.com
- Gold bugs squashed by aggressive selling – Financial Times
- Commodity Rout Extends Toward 13-Year Low as Gold Shunned on Fed – Bloomberg
- Think Gold’s Pricey Now? Wait Until It Hits $5000: Schiff – CNBC
- Gold Continues Sliding, Hits 5-Year Low – Wall Street Journal
- Oil Falls Below $50 for First Time Since April on Glut Concern – Bloomberg
- How important are terms-of-trade shocks? – VOX
North America:
- Fannie and Freddie are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever – New York Times
- Clinton to Push Revamp of Capital-Gains Tax Rates – Wall Street Journal
- 2016 Candidates Are Finally Talking About the American Underclass – Vice.com
- Beware the Fed on the ides of September – Financial Times
- Bidding Wars Return to Home Market – Wall Street Journal
- Signs of Overheating in the Single-Family Rental Market – Wall Street Journal
Europe:
- Varoufakis: Europe’s Vindictive Privatization Plan for Greece – Project Syndicate
- The $42 Billion Debt Trap That Putin Has Three Years to Escape – Bloomberg
- Statement by the IMF on Greece – IMF
- Europe’s Impossible Dream – New York Times
- The man who cost Greece billions: Alexis Tsipras – Reuters
- Greece should prepare for Grexit and then not do it – VOX
- Why Greeks voted the way they did in the bailout referendum – lse.ac.uk
Asia:
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- In China, a Supercity Rises Around Beijing – New York Times
- Yuan “Float” Turns 10 Years Old – marctomarket.com
- For Many Firms, China’s ‘New Normal’ Spells Doom – Wall Street Journal
- All-robot Japanese hotel – Marginal Revolution
- Chinese man builds fake police station in flat and poses as cop in elaborate con – The Guardian
Local:
- Commodities crash could turn Australia into a new Greece – The Telegraph
- Bishop’s love of flights began decades ago – Canberra Times
- PM warned not to cut taxes – Canberra Times
- Plea to take politics out of tax reform – Canberra Times
- Here’s how to sell a GST hike – Canberra Times
- Home loan rules to hit bank returns – Canberra Times
- Medibank on collision course – Canberra Times
- Who pays to fortress the big banks? – Canberra Times
- Why are we unhappy with our homes? – Canberra Times
- Negative gearing works if it’s done properly – The Age
- Labor eyes on unlikely allies – The Australian
- Shorten support sinks deeper – The Australian
- GST push: premiers on board – The Australian
- China pact to double cattle sales – The Australian
- Room to go harder on leverage levels – The Australian
- GST rise would add $50,000 to new homes – The AFR
- Why property might not bloom in spring – The AFR
- Low income families hardest hit by 15pc GST – The AFR
- Gorgon illuminates monster problem – The AFR
- The real zombie tax we need to fix – Climate Spectator
Other:
- Tesla Just Did Something Really Big – Bloomberg View