Tunnel Rock, Cape Schanck, Victoria, Nicholas Chevalier, 1862, Art Gallery of New South Wales
China
- China Gears Up in Artificial-Intelligence Race– WSJ
- China’s big P2P platforms shrug off crackdown– Reuters
- China tightens rules for risky P2P lending – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s central bank pledges to maintain flow of cash in banking system to keep interest rates low – SCMP
- Two of China’s Biggest Banks Hold Back Rising Tide of Bad Loans – Bloomberg
- China Eases Pricing Rules on Public Hospitals – Caixin
- China’s Largest Private Shipbuilder to Cut 2,000 Jobs in 2016 – Caixin
- Investment Dip Rains on China’s Upbeat Economy – Caixin
- Why Official Claim on Services Driving China’s Economy is Misleading – Caixin
- Chinese steel climbing again as capacity cuts advance – Nikkei Asian Review
- China needs a clear mechanism to address bond defaults – SCMP
- Bankruptcy courts to deal with surge in bond defaults – SCMP
- Financial tool set to shield bondholders from default risk – SCMP
Asia
- Japan July core CPI falls more than expected on-year– CNBC
- Japan July consumer prices post biggest annual fall in three years– Reuters
- Philippines: Death toll in Duterte’s war on drugs– aljazeera.com
- Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living– BBC
- World’s First Self-Driving Taxis Hit the Road in Singapore– WSJ
- Meet the man who worked till 101- Nikkei Asian Review– Nikkei
- Japan’s deflationary spiral worsens as ‘Abenomics’ falters – Guardian
- Robo-advisers coming for Japanese investors – Nikkei Asian Review
- As Thailand and Singapore go gray, their companies must adapt quickly – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan’s July consumer prices fall at fastest pace in 3 years – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan, Seeking to Regain Manufacturing Might, Bets on Aerospace – NY Times
- China urges Japan to be ‘constructive’ at G20 summit – Reuters
Europe
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- Europe plans news levy on search engines– FT
- ’It took on a life of its own’: how one rogue tweet led Syrians to Germany– The Guardian
- How to prevent Brexit from damaging the EU– LSE
- French support for the EU project is crumbling on the Left and Right – Telegraph, AEP
- Ireland symbolises benefits of free trade as protectionism rises – Irish Times…well they nationalised a lot of pain…
- A tale of two countries: Italy, Germany, and Russian gas – Brookings
United Kingdom
- UK builds 1m cars in first seven months of year for first time since 2004– The Guardian
- What next after Brexit? Immigration & integration in post-referendum Britain– British Future
- Jackson Hole 2016: five big problems facing central bankers – Guardian
- NHS plans closures and radical cuts to combat growing deficit in health budget – Guardian
- British economy escapes Brexit ‘bomb’, for now – Business Times
- The Brexit Gives A Lifeline To British Coal – OilPrice
- Move Over Coal – U.K. Now Gets Half Of Its Power From Nat Gas – OilPrice
- OSBORNE’S LEGACY: TROUBLE FOR TRADE & CAPITAL FLOWS – Pieria
- Brexit Delay Risks Triggering a Shotgun Divorce – Bloomberg
- The Brexit Question That Nobody Asked – Bloomberg
- What is the economic and fiscal situation in Scotland? – Notayesmanseconomic’s
United States
- Donald Trump’s Mixed Signals on Immigration Roil Campaign– WSJ
- Trump: No legal status for undocumented immigrants– CNN
- On Immigration Policy, Partisan Differences but Also Some Common Ground– People Press
- The Con-Artist Wing of the Democratic Party– Vice
- U.S. pension funding boost is temporary reprieve– Breaking Views
- Most Welfare Dollars Don’t Go Directly To Poor People Anymore– Five Thirty Eight
- US banks just recorded their most profitable quarter EVER– CNBC
- Reducing Inequality and Poverty in America – Project-Syndicate
- America’s investment in its own future is in a depression – Market Watch
- Comradely capitalism: How America accidentally nationalised its mortgage market – Economist
- 5 Things to Know About Health-Care Spending in the U.S. – WSJ
- “Things Are Worse” – Dollar Stores’ Startling Admission: Half Of US Consumers Are In Dire Straits – Zero Hedge
- Why the Fed Can’t Doom Clinton’s Chances – Bloomberg
- How Investment Banks Cash in on School Construction – Priceonomics
Americas
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- Venezuela’s oil imports slump on payment woes, economic meltdown– Reuters
- Venezuelan Car Sales Have Declined 99% From Record-High: Chart– Bloomberg
- Canada — and particularly Alberta’s oil industry — paying higher price for climate change policy than U.S. – Financial Post
- Vancouver foreign tax slowing an already cooling home market, realtor group says – Financial Post
- Venezuela’s oil imports slump on payment woes, economic meltdown – Reuters
- Low prices may hobble potentially massive new Canada oilfield – Reuters
- Is Doomsday Inevitable For Venezuela? – OilPrice
- Banks’ exposure to loans backed by residential real estate more than $1 trillion – Vancouver Sun…a bank system over exposed to real estate?…
Terra Specufestorus
- Bill Shorten committed to bank Royal Commission– Twitter
- Liberal MP criticises Scott Morrison for spurning Labor on superannuation– The Guardian
- Greens to block same-sex marriage plebiscite, saying young lives at stake– The Guardian
- Block the Plebiscite and No Gay Marriage For You, Warns LNP– The Guardian
- Govt targeting the poor: Labor, Greens say– News.com.au
- Canberra public servants refuse to move to Wagga Wagga– The SMH
- Battle For Bulga: Rio Tinto Prepares To Crush Another Tiny Town, This Time In Australia– New Matilda
- LNP may preference One Nation ahead of Labor at next Queensland election, Opposition Leader says– ABC
- Australia Post returns to profit despite drop off in snail mail– ABC
- How Job Agencies Bully The Unemployed and Get Away With It – New Matilda
- Scott Morrison Just Blamed Young People For Australia’s Economic Problems – Junkee
- Australia needs to be more like Asia: a 24/7 economy – The Age…Says crusty baby boomer who will never have to work in it….
- Private citizen crowdfunds to pay for FOI into census failure after being slapped with an exorbitant fee by ABS– The SMH
- Australia’s luxury-car binge belies its drop in living standards– The Age…It’s called growing inequality and “equity mate”…
- Why unemployment is no longer the best indicator of the economy’s health – Guardian, Jericho
- The new normal: why we need to shake up economic policy – Guardian, Jericho
- Tony Abbott urges colleagues to hold firm against the ‘grievance-mongers’ and populists – Fairfax…thanks TestosterTone…
- Government does not support banking royal commission, Malcolm Turnbull tells Bill Shorten – ABC
- Finally NBN shows path to profit – Fairfax
- New Zealand and Australia, World Leaders in Pizza Delivery by Drone – Slate
- Australia and New Zealand Are Fighting Over Who Can Claim This Superfood – Bloomberg
- ASIC sale: rhetoric versus reality – Michael West
- Construction continues to tank – Callam Pickering
- The tragic decline of Australian mining – Callam Pickering
- The Ausgrid decision and the growing power of security and intelligence agencies – Pearls & Irritations, Menadue
- ‘National security’ and the Ausgrid bid – Pearls & Irritations, Mack
- Apartment glut looming in 2017, property downturn imminent, warns Citi – ABC
Commodities
- The Rise Of Lithium – Demand Set To Surge– crugroup.com
- Could A Lithium Shortage De-Rail The Electric Car Boom?– Oil Price
- Macquarie sees lithium as the new wonder resource in the mining sector– Proactive Investors
- Graphite demand from lithium ion batteries to more than treble in 4 years– benchmarkminerals.com
- Is the slide in US shale oil and gas production about to bottom out? – ABC, Letts
- China’s Decline in Oil Production Echoes Globally – WSJ
- Grains: Corn, Wheat Continue Stately Descent – Climateer Investing
- Robusta coffee futures to outperform arabica prices – Rabobank – AgriMoney
- Fears spread over potential squeeze on milling wheat supplies – AgriMoney
- Can the gold industry avoid the sins of the past? – Mineweb
- Chronic aluminum oversupply won’t go away in China – Mineweb
Capital Markets
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- There’s Basically No Alternative to U.S. Corporate Bonds Right Now– Bloomberg
- Could tracker funds be worse than Marxism? – Telegraph
- Burned by currency swings, Mrs. Watanabe takes a breather as yen rises – Nikkei Asian Review
- China chalks up symbolic victory by persuading World Bank to issue low-yield SDR bonds – SCMP
- World’s biggest pension fund loses US$52b in stock rout – Business Times
- The head of Germany’s largest bank says negative rates are ‘fatal’ – Market Watch
- “Expensive” US Banks Are Global Outlier As ‘Yield Curve’ Inverts For First Time Since Lehman – Zero Hedge
- Short Interest Declines As Investors Haunted By Central Banks – SeeItMarket
- Are fund managers risking your money in pursuit of their bonuses? – Telegraph…isn’t that their job?…
Global Macro
- Central bankers ponder moving the goalposts– FT
- Why Central Banks May Have Met Their Limit– Inc.com
- Investor beliefs and stock market outcomes in emerging economies– VOX
- Curtailing the power of central bankers– Interest.co.nz
- Global pensions crisis only going to get worse – SCMP
- Fragile global economy puts a generation at risk, report warns – Telegraph
- The Politics of Negative Interest Rates – Project-Syndicate, Varoufakis…worth a read…
- The Easy Money Contagion – Project-Syndicate, Reinhart
- The Scarecrow of National Debt – Project-Syndicate
- With world trade in the doldrums, the threat of a new currency war looms – SCMP
- Schooled in the short run, central banks struggle with a long-term role – Reuters
- Investor beliefs and stock market outcomes in emerging economies – VoxEU
- EV Revolution Set To Cripple More Than Just The Oil Industry – OilPrice
- A zombie financial system, black swans and a gold share correction – Mining.com
- Real World Shows Economics Has a Deflation Problem – Bloomberg
- Why Gauging Inflation Is So Hard – Bloomberg
…and furthermore…
- Russia Says Chinese Hackers Are Getting More Aggressive – Bloomberg
- French official threatens to sue social media users who share burkini photos– The Verge
- Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’– NY Times
- The World’s Highest-Paid Actors 2016: The Rock Leads With Knockout $64.5 Million Year– Forbes
- LG racing to beat Tesla to the first ‘Gigafactory’ in the US– Electrek
- How Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, became a virtual monopoly – Washington Post
- This malware sold to governments could help them spy on iPhones, researchers say – Washington Post
- VW to Pay $1.2 Billion to U.S. Dealers Hurt by Diesel Scandal – NY Times
- Back to the future? Lessons on inequality, labour markets, and conflict from the Gilded Age, for the present – VoxEU
- Technology: AI and the spectre of automation – Euromoney
- The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A new narrative – VoxEU
- The newspaper ad collapse: Bad news for readers – VoxEU
- Soaring insulin prices have diabetics feeling the pain – CBS
- Is Passive Investing Really Worse Than Marxism? – ETF.com
- The Feudal Origins of America’s Most-Hated Tax – The Atlantic…good read on property tax…
- The Psychology Behind Logo And Color Choice – Value Walk
- New Study Suggests Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline – Value Walk
- Good Lord. Even the Price of Insulin Is Skyrocketing. – Slate
- We’ve Heated Up the Planet. Can We Cool It Back Down? – Slate
- Good School, Rich School; Bad School, Poor School – The Atlantic
- Why you should give your kids unlimited screen time – Quartz
