North America:
- Are auto loans a sub-prime crisis in the making? – Yahoo
- U.S. second-quarter growth forecasts cut on tepid consumer spending – Reuters
- Job Growth Is Up, Production Down – New York Times
- City Loses Final Appeal on Limiting Sales of Large Sodas – New York Times
- Butter is back, as Americans for the third straight year buy more butter than margarine – Wall Street Journal
- State sells $185M in bonds for new Detroit streetlights – Detroit News
- Is a Student Loan Crisis on the Horizon? – Brookings
- Bailing out banks is not a lucrative business – Washington Post
- More than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy” – Washington Post
Europe:
- Self-fulfilling Eurozone debt crises and the ‘Draghi put’ – VOX
- Ireland’s small businesses hold some of Europe’s largest debts, says central bank – Wall Street Journal
- Bank of England caps some home loans, toughens mortgage affordability tests – Reuters
- Bank of England moves to curb housing boom – Financial Times
- Merkel says flexibility in EU stability pact should be used – Reuters
Asia:
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- Beijing: From Hardship Post To Plum Assignment And Back Again – NPR
- India’s Pointless Search for ’Black Money’ – Bloomberg
- China Finds $15B of Loans Backed by Falsified Gold Trades – Bloomberg
Local:
- Moody’s sounds the alarm on house prices – The AFR
- Cormann determined to change FoFA advice rules – The AFR
- CBA credibility on the line – The AFR
- Senate calls for Royal Commission on CBA – The AFR
- How we can rekindle our traditions of reform – The AFR
- Putting government back in its cage – The AFR
- Downgrades reveal retailers’ misery – The AFR
- Palmer’s climate plan in doubt – The AFR
- Golden ticket visas surge – The AFR
- Trade agreements could hurt competition: Productivity Commission – The AFR
- Renovation activity on the Rise – The AFR
- Senate prepares to kill carbon tax – Canberra Times
- Who are the winners from Clive Plamer’s green conversion – Canberra Times
- Glencore: $15 billion income, zero tax – Canberra Times
- How to kill a tax you hate – The Australian
- Palmer’s ETS already dead – The Australian
- High price for cheap homes – The Australian
- Rules “discourage” foreign buyers – The Australian
- Green bank looks set to stay – The Guardian
- Can the economy dig itself out of an iron ore slump? – Business Spectator
Other:
- Great White Shark Population Surges – Wall Street Journal
- Militants take Iraqi gas field town, president calls parliament session – Reuters
- Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it – Quartz
- For Fitness, Push Yourself – New York Times
- MH370 on auto pilot when crashed – The Guardian