Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The limits to “whatever it takes”: Lessons from the gold standard – VOX
- Central Bankers Get Tired of Gold as Lower Exports Cut Cash – Bloomberg
- Inequality made the Great Recession worse (especially for the poor) – VOX
- Investment and Protectionism: A pre-G20 summit briefing – VOX
Americas:
- Hillary Clinton Piles Up Research in Bid to Needle Donald Trump at First Debate – NY Times
- Donald Trump’s Unorthodoxy Extends to Spending – WSJ
- Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. Inquiry – NY Times
- New Yorkers Will Pay $56 A Month To Trim A Minute Off Their Commute – Five Thirty Eight
- At Ports, a Sign of Altered Supply Chains – WSJ
- Silicon Valley may finally get special approval for foreign founders to enter the US – Quartz
- Please don’t tell anyone, but tax cheating is about to rise in the U.S. – Washington Post
- This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and prior generations – Pew Research
- Larry Summers: The Fed shouldn’t expect people to trust its current approach to the economy – Washington Post
- As Vancouver’s Housing Market Implodes, Furious Chinese Envoy Slams Real Estate Tax – Zero Hedge
Europe:
- German Savers Lose Faith in Banks, Stash Cash at Home – WSJ
- Iceland Raises Alarm After Largest Volcano Starts to Rumble – Bloomberg
- Will Europe’s Reform Momentum Continue? – PIIE
- Portugal’s Guterres still leads race for U.N. chief after third ballot – Reuters
- Greece May Face Aid-Payout Delay as EU Warns on Backsliding – Bloomberg
- Brexit is actually boosting the UK economy – NY Post
- Tensions rise between Greeks and refugees – FT
Asia:
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- Prosecutors seek tougher punishment for youth leaders of Occupy protests – SCMP
- Raghuram Rajan says India’s growth below potential – Live Mint
- Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’ at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall – NY Times
- U.N. rights envoy says Chinese authorities interfered with his work – Reuters
- The racist reality of house-hunting in Singapore: “Sorry, your wife is Indian” – Quartz
- China’s richest man, Wanda Group CEO Wang Jianlin, has declared war on Disneyland – Quartz
Trans-Tasman:
- ICAC findings into Liberal Party slush fund Eight By Five, illegal donations to be handed down – ABC
- ICAC: NSW Liberal figures and businessmen tried to evade political funding laws, report finds – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity at new low, Newspoll shows – The Guardian
- Q&A panellist attacks myth of welfare bludgers – The Guardian
- Fixing wealth inequality: future generations will think us mad, and they will be right – The Guardian
- Solar power does work – and a lot better than we thought – Renew Economy
- Tax Office imposes blanket ban on FOI requests via Right To Know website – ABC
- Private tax is the great unspoken of neoliberal philosophy. And the rich are the winners | Philip Soos – The Guardian
- Victorian unconventional gas exploration ban to end fracking and CSG extraction – ABC
- Victoria Is Banning Fracking And Coal Seam Gas Exploration – Gizmodo
- Bernardi leads Coalition push to water down race hate laws – ABC
- Australia’s growing debt a ‘ticking time bomb’, says TD Securities – The Age
- Carry on polluting: Australia’s useless safeguards mechanism – Renew Economy
- Proportion of Australians on welfare is far lower than 1990s, new study finds – The Guardian
- Budget repair bill includes welfare payment cut Labor previously opposed – ABC
- Sold out: quarter of a million workers underpaid in union deals – The SMH
- New rules for foreign investment after Ausgrid – The AFR
- Capital is not enough: APRA – DFA
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Others:
- Expand the Best Program to Fight Poverty – Bloomberg