Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Agricultural economics as behavioral economics – Berkeley
- Rich Countries Often Fail to Bolster Well-Being, Boston Consulting Says – Bloomberg
- Why Most Traders Lose Money and Why the Market Requires It – Vantage Point Trading
- Good Trades Versus Profitable Trades – Share Planner
- Profiting From Battling Bulls and Bears – Barron’s
- IMF calls for more government spending as rate cuts lose their impact – The Guardian
- Map: The world of coups since 1950 – Washington Post
- Yes, inequality matters – Stumbling & Mumbling
- The surprising thing about the backlash against globalization – WEF
Americas:
- Why the Fed Can’t and Shouldn’t Raise Interest Rates – Bloomberg
- Wealth Bubble In `Scary Graph’ Flashes Warning About Future U.S. Downturn – Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him – Weekly Standard
- Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine – Politico
- Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? – NY Times
- Dallas police see surge in applications – CNN
- Is Donald Trump a Racist? – NY Times
- Oil Lobby Paid Washington Post and Atlantic to Host Climate-Change Deniers at RNC – Linkis
- Clinton: Why I chose Tim Kaine – Medium
- Kaine comes out against Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal – Politico
- A Colorado Town Tests Positive for Marijuana (in Its Water) – NY Times
- My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Munich officials: Gunman was obsessed with mass killings but had no ties to ISIS – Washington Post
- Ali Sonboly: Everything we know about the Munich gunman – The Telegraph
- Munich Killer Was Troubled, but Had No Terrorist Ties, Germany Says – NY Times
- EU-Turkish customs union: How to proceed – VOX
- Brexit: Cameron considered last-ditch appeal to Merkel – BBC
- Soros lays out his plan for Europe to avoid ’catastrophe’ – CNBC
- Brexit and the power of wishful thinking – Tim Harford
Asia:
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- Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial – Nature
- Chinese are cheering for Trump because he will “mess up the US” and let China pull ahead – Quartz
- Discord Between China’s Top Two Leaders Spills Into the Open – WSJ
- J.P. Morgan Chase Nearing Settlement With Prosecutors on Asia Hiring Probes – WSJ
- China Factory Gauge Suspended, This Time ‘Indefinitely’ – Bloomberg
- HSBC: China’s Services Boom Risks Premature ’Deindustrialisation’ – Bloomberg
- The Incredible Story of Developing Country Income Growth: Was it Just China? – Cepr.net
- China’s WeChat Way of Life – The Information
Trans-Tasman:
- Dole payments: MP George Christensen wants dole payments cut after six months – Courier Mail
- Great Barrier Reef Undergoing a ‘Complete Ecosystem Collapse,’ Scientists Say – Weather.com
- Ghost jobs: recruiters advertise fake jobs to get your resume – The SMH
- ‘I just felt a pit in my stomach’: Online jobseekers fall prey to scammers – ABC
- How average income earners will be pushed into private health insurance by 2020 – The SMH
- New NSW P-plater restrictions announced after rise in fatal crashes – 9News
- PM Malcolm Turnbull faces down internal dissent – The Saturday Paper
- Government needs to get balance right in regulating agriculture – The Conversation
- NSW secures medical marijuana licence in Australian first – The SMH
- Proposed solar plant to store power in shipping container-sized batteries – ABC
- Chances of finding work for Australia’s skilled migrants improving – The SMH
- Coalition “fed” dodgy numbers on wind energy to Murdoch media – Renew Economy
- Department scrambles to scrap Turnbull catchcry from government site – ABC
- Behind the ‘successful’ 2016 election: the tension at the heart of the Greens – The Guardian
- Founding member of Melbourne’s Apex gang reveals group’s spiral into crime – Daily Mail
- ABC cleared of ‘anti-business’ bias in independent review – The SMH
- Most migrant sex workers satisfied with their work: Australian Institute of Criminology – The Age
- Support grows for HECS to be collected from the dead and new family income test – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull says Arrium loan is to ‘save jobs’ – Canberra Times
- Surviving the ‘sandwich generation’ – The AFR
- Super rethink’s ‘perverse’ divorce incentive – The AFR
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Auckland’s pivotal moment – Interest.co.nz
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Housing train wreck decades in the making – Interest.co.nz
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Filling the land tax void – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Islamic State claims responsibility for Kabul attack, 80 dead – Reuters
- When the Body Attacks the Mind – The Atlantic