Global Macro & Markets
- Bank bailouts, monetary policy, and credit default risks in the Eurozone – VoxEU
- Deflation and money – VoxEU
- Goldman tested the limits of banking morality with huge fees from 1MDB – SCMP….the ‘limits of banking morality’, now there’s a concept….
- Oil prices fall on global glut fears, slowing U.S. jobs growth – Reuters
- Inflation, the Fed, and the Big Picture – Project-Syndicate
- The triumph of backward-looking economics – Bruegel
- Inflation outlooks sink in major economies on fears of global slowdown – Nikkei Asian Review
- Central banks can do nothing more to insulate us from an Asian winter – Guardian
Asia
- China revises down economic growth figure for 2014 – SCMP
- Capitalisation gap forming between China’s biggest banks as Basel deadline looms – SCMP
- China’s new oil contract signals shift from Brent and US dollar – Telegraph
- China’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Fall in August on Yuan Support – Bloomberg
- China Freezes Outbound Investment Quotas as Outflows Hurt Yuan – Bloomberg
- China revises down 2014 GDP to 7.3% from 7.4% – CNBC
- Japan should brace for Chinese ‘quantitative tightening’ – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s foreign exchange war chest drained as growth fears intensify – Telegraph
- Indonesia’s palm oil production is smoking out its neighbors – Quartz
- Chinese stock exhanges plan to install bourse-wide ‘circuit breakers’ to prevent panic selling – SCMP
- China reveals record drop in forex reserves – SCMP
Americas
- Fed Up with the Fed – Project-Syndicate, Stiglitz
- After a long slumber, US wages begin to perk up – CNBC
- The Key Role of Conservatives in Taxing Carbon – NY Times
- Canada joins the currency wars – SoberLook
- The Fed needs to break us in gently with its first interest rate rise now – Telegraph
- Known Unknowns and the Dollar – Marc to Market
- The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia – Rolling Stone
- America’s decline in wages can be traced to the George W Bush era– Guardian
Europe
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- Growth forecast for UK manufacturing sector slashed – Telegraph
- Pressure on banks as lending tightens up – Irish Times
- German Industrial Production Rebounds in Sign of Solid Recovery – Bloomberg
- The IMF’s post-Ukraine restructuring void – BNE
- Bad loans haunt Greek banks seeking new start – Reuters
Oi, Oi, Oi!
- The Place Where Being a Nuclear Dump Might Be a Good Option – Bloomberg
- Syrian refugees: house them at Point Nepean barracks, urges Matthew Guy – Fairfax…why not in those empty Guyscrapers in the centre of Melbourne?…
- Small business flags anti-Coalition campaign in key marginal seats – Guardian
- Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer weighing cost of customers and technology – Fairfax
- China free trade agreement should be renegotiated or blocked, say unions – Guardian
- Is it time to get worried about the banks? – ABC…not with all that RE exposure, surely…
- US central bank needs to quash global uncertainty about interest rate rise, Joe Hockey says – ABC…staple guts needs a budget …..
- Australia’s terms of trade to fall as mining decline searches for bottom – Fairfax
- Horror Again or Spruik – Interstate Investors in Tasmania – Idiot Tax
- Mike Baird met with Korean company behind controversial Wallarah 2 mine – Fairfax
- BHP expects coal rebound and makes move in Borneo – Fairfax
- 7-Eleven: Workers caught in cashback scam – Fairfax
- Martin Ferguson warns on shaky LNG pipeline – Fairfax
…and furthermore…
- Melting Ice Isn’t Opening Arctic to Oil Bonanza – NY Times
- ‘Wonder material’ graphene could protect airliners from lightning strikes – Telegraph
- Women with “resting bitch face” are actually better communicators – Quartz
- Drop of blood can show biological age and predict Alzheimer’s Disease – Telegraph
- Every hour spent in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results – Phys.Org
- Educated elite parents are successfully raising more capable children creating a hereditary meritocracy – NextBigFuture
- How earning the right to an opinion on the Internet makes it that much more valuable – The Conversation