Macro, Markets & Investing
- Brace for More Days of Extreme Volatility, Icap’s Chief Says – WSJ
- Renewables outpace nuclear in economies making up 45 percent of world population: report – Reuters
- S., Brent curves align as oil traders caution slump may be ahead – Reuters
- Soldier Turned Math Wonk Shaking Up World of Commodity Trading – Bloomberg
- Charts: The shifting trade relationship between the US and China – Quartz
Asia
- China surprises economists with GDP rise of 7% – Guardian
- Chinese economic growth based on ‘money created from thin air’ – ABC
- Why Xi Can’t Wrestle Down China’s $10 Trillion Economy – Bloomberg
- Beijing’s policy missteps leave market signals far from clear – SCMP
- Bank of Japan Keeps Record Stimulus, Trims Inflation Outlook – Bloomberg
- The Real Risk Behind China’s Stock-Market Drama – New Yorker
Europe
- Tsipras Kicks Off Bailout Pitch with Math Already in Question – Bloomberg…well that video is some sales pitch. Is he willing his own politicians to vote against?…
- Saving Greece, Saving Europe – Project-Syndicate, Eichengreen
- Getting Personal With the Greek Crisis – Project-Syndicate
- Reluctant Tsipras fights to pass reforms in Greek parliament – Reuters
- IMF stuns Europe with call for massive Greek debt relief – Telegraph
- Europe’s collective aversion to Grexit is baffling – Telegraph…not if you think Greece is a scab on a much bigger sore…
- UK wage growth soars but unemployment rises for first time in two years – Telegraph
- M.F. Demands Greece Debt Relief as Condition for Bailout – NY Times
- Deal on Greek Debt Crisis Exposes Europe’s Deepening Fissures – NY Times
- Tsipras Kicks Off Bailout Pitch with Math Already in Question – Bloomberg
- IMF Says Greece Needs Even Deeper Debt Relief From Europe – Bloomberg
- Greece has surrendered, but Europe has lost, too – Washington Post
- How Greece became the worst economy in Europe – Washington Post
- IMF says Greece needs debt relief, PM faces revolt – CBS
- IMF signals it may walk over Greek debt worries – Market Watch
- Here’s Europe’s real reason for rescuing Greece – Market Watch
Americas
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- Should Americans Work More? To Hit 4 Percent Growth, We Would Have To – NY Times
- For U.S. banks, depositors could spoil joy of higher interest rates – Reuters
- Nearly every job in America, mapped in incredible detail – Washington Post
- Royal LePage warns rate cut could ‘over-stimulate’ housing market and spur ‘difficult correction’ – Financial Post
- So many elderly, so few care workers – CBS
- Opening for Business – New Yorker
- The Numbers Behind Hillary Clinton’s Economic Vision – FiveThirtyEight
Us & Them
- Reserve Bank takes aim at negative gearing – Fairfax…dear real estate lobby, do you think the walls are closing in?…
- Alan Jones takes aim at Tony Abbott in 30-minute spray about Shenhua mine – Fairfax
- Australia’s Growth Risk: Fewer People Want to Live There – Bloomberg, Heath
- Bronwyn Bishop spending more on overseas travel than former Speakers – Fairfax
- Townhouses at risk of collapse after excavation pit subsides in Mount Waverley – Fairfax
- Joe Hockey calls ‘game over’ on GST increase after state backlash – Guardian
- Bronwyn Bishop spent $88,000 of taxpayer funds on trip to Europe – Guardian…and 5K on a Melbourne-Geelong trip!…
- Inequality has fallen, yet the poor remain in danger of being left behind – Guardian, Jericho
- CFMEU whistleblowers Brian Miller and Andrew Quirk sacked for going public about alleged organised crime infiltration – ABC
- BlueScope steeling for Port Kembla furnace shutdown? – ABC
- Bank strong but economy needs reform to maintain current living standards: NAB boss – ABC
- Is Melbourne’s apartment market a bubble about to burst? – AFR
- NZ top China expert Rodney Jones: How he’d solve the property crisis – NZ Herald
- Property data leak: Barfoot & Thompson staffer fired – NZ Herald
- Agents support foreign investor law change – NZ Herald…..“REINZ agrees that the required information should be collated by conveyancers from property vendors and purchasers to complete settlement of property transactions as part of normal conveyancing process.”….Are we so much thicker than the Kiwis we cannot see this?
…and furthermore…
- The Mirage of the Financial Singularity – Project-Syndicate, Shiller
- Today’s Dark Lords of Finance – Project-Syndicate
- Stock-Market Hoaxes, From ‘Napoleon Is Dead’ to ‘Twitter for Sale’ – WSJ
- How corn made its way into just about everything we eat – Washington Post
- Don’t forget about the other black gold coming out of Iran – Quartz
- What Greece can learn from Africa about the effects of bitter austerity and debilitating debt – Quartz