Asia
- First sign of cooperation? US repatriates one of China’s most wanted ‘Sky Net’ fugitives days before Xi Jinping’s visit – SCMP
- Putin’s Line in the Sand: No Regime Change in Syria – Counterpunch
- Malaysia Fund 1MDB’s Missing Money Problem Grows – WSJ
- Russia Raises Prospect of Sending Troops Into Combat in Syria – Bloomie
- China Stocks Cap Biggest Weekly Loss This Month as Volumes Slump – Bloomie
- China Is Hoarding the World’s Oil – Bloomie
- China VCs Are Going Crazy for Girl Groups – Bloomie
Europe
- Campaigning in Greece draws to close, election results in balance – Reuters
- Mas’s Independence Gamble Risks Catalan, 5 charts – Bloomie
- RBS ‘stripped assets’ of struggling companies – SBCB
- Finland Faces Biggest Strikes in Two Decades Amid Austerity Ire – Bloomberg
- Croatia ‘cannot stop migrants’ – PM – BBC
- Europe Lacks Plan as Migrants March On – NYT
- Greek election 2015: Golden Dawn rises on austerity-driven despair – Guardian
- Greece election campaign ends as polls show no clear winner – Ekathimerini
- More firms are about to go bust – Telegraph UK
- Angela Merkel: 10 years in 10 charts – Guardian
- Greece Fights Next Crisis and This Time It’s Not About the Euro – Bloomie
United States
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- Wolf Richter: Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates – NakedCap
- US commander backs challenging China over disputed islands – Reuters
- Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey “Something Very Wrong” – Michael Shedlock
Terra Turnbull
- Judgment day has ministers on edge – SMH
- Shorten offers peace deal on China FTA – Q&A
- 2GB Ray Hadley | The Hon Scott Morrison MP – Morrison
- The unfinished business facing Australia’s new treasurer – The conversation
- Dammit, Janet, if not now, when? – Pascoe
- Coal losing in court of public opinion – Business Day , AFR , Guardian
- Abbott’s nightmare of disloyalty – AFR
- Bank capital a test for Turnbull – Chris Joye|AFR
- Australian homes among first to get Tesla’s Powerwall solar-energy battery – Guardian
Global Macro/Markets
- Mohamed El-Erian: Fed must now work harder to shift market focus – FT
- Dovish Tone of Fed’s Monetary Policy Statement Surprises Economists – NYT
- Markets Still Don’t Agree With the Fed – Bloomie
- Yellen May Emulate Taper Template and Raise Rates in December – Bloomie
- George Magnus: Fed holds for now — but for how long?– Nikkei
- Developed, emerging markets diverge as Fed keeps rates steady – Reuters
…and furthermore…
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- Final round of TPP talks set for end of September – Global & Mail
- The summer of 2015 was Earth’s hottest on record, multiple datasets show – WaPo
- ‘Universal urination duration’ wins Ig Nobel prize – BBC
- Researchers just discovered a massive body of water under China’s biggest desert – Inhabitat
- Rogue States and Diplomacy: a Conversation With Noam Chomsky – Counterpunch
- Zurich, Geneva, New York Are Most Expensive Cities, UBS Says – Bloomie
- Central Banks’ Lesson: Easy Money Alone Isn’t a Growth Salve – WSJ .. FacePalm!
- The crème de la cram – The Economist. I’ve seen the madness of South Korea first hand, and Australia really isn’t much better in its education delusion. Finland spends NIL on private education yet has some of the best outcomes in the world. Bloody socialists !!