Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A Tax to Curb Excessive Trading Could Be a Boon to Returns – NY Times
- Paying CEOs fat bonuses for stock performance doesn’t work – Yahoo
- Exxon, Chevron Outlooks Cut to Negative by S&P in Oil Slump – Bloomberg
- The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade – Project Syndicate
- Half of World’s Coal Output Is Unprofitable, Moody’s Says – Bloomberg
North America:
- The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble – Business Insider
- The Fed proposes, the bond market disposes – themoneyillusion.com
- The Hypocrisy of ‘Helping’ the Poor – NY Times
- U.S. system designed to prevent financial crisis ‘likely to fail,’ say experts – MarketWatch
- Kocherlakota Says Low Inflation Warrants Further Fed Stimulus – Bloomberg
- The Decline of ‘Big Soda’ – NY Times
- Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combined – VOX
Europe:
- The Roots of Europe’s Refugee Crisis – carnegieeurope.eu
- Structural Reform and Greece: Lessons from Other Lands – Dani Rodrik – harvard.edu
- Italy to test 80 diesel models of main carmakers: report – Reuters
- Crime in Europe and the United States: dissecting the ‘reversal of misfortunes’ – oxfordjournals.org
- Russia says to step up air strikes in Syria – Reuters
- Who Knew Christine Lagarde Was So Funny? – Huffington Post
- In a United Germany, the Scars of the East-West Divide Have Faded – NY times
- Greek PM says main target to regain market access, end bailout – Reuters
- Deutsche Bank raises German GDP forecast, expecting migrants to boost demand – Reuters
Asia:
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- China’s Ambitious Rail Projects Crash Into Harsh Realities in Latin America – NY Times
- China to curb yuan speculation amid reform push: central bank – Reuters
- Macau Casinos Jump on Report China May Give Economic Support – Bloomberg
- China’s Ambitious Rail Projects Crash Into Harsh Realities in Latin America – NY Times
Local:
- Letter to Australia: What the bloody hell are ya? – The SMH
- Australia’s “Black Swan Moment” – wolfstreet.com
- Turnbull learns lesson from Abbott’s mistake – Canberra Times
- Dick Smith savages Turnbull over tax – Canberra Times
- Time to borrow, says the IMF – Canberra Times
- Are resources finally bottoming out? – Canberra Times
- SMSFs dispute cost of super tax breaks – Canberra Times
- Gas players feel burn of falling prices – Canberra Times
- Shorten must refresh his team – The Australian
- US, Australia drug dispute frustrates TPP – The AFR
- The reason the TPP is going nowhere – The AFR
- Andrew Robb: Australia and US close to drug patent compromise for TPP deal – The Guardian
Other:
- The Reign of Recycling – NY Times
- This is the first road-legal big rig that can drive itself – The Verge
- Leaders in driverless cars – The Economist