Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Some Shale Drillers Return to Oil Patch – WSJ
- What happens when we run out of investment opportunities? – timothyblee.com
- Are sticky nominal wages an overrated idea? – Marginal Revolution
- How This Hedge Fund Robot Outsmarted Its Human Master – Bloomberg
- Human development, inequality and long working hours – VOX
- A Grim Outlook for the Economy, Stocks – Barrons
Americas:
- Trump paid dearly to boost fundraising – Politico
- Will the Mormon Church’s Support for Muslim Immigration Block Trump’s Victory? – breitbart.com
- Trumpism is a Politics of Loss and Revenge – Talking Points Memo
- Donald Trump, a ‘Rigged’ Election and the Politics of Race – NY Times
- Trump campaign has biggest spending month yet, but Clinton dominates financially – Washington Post
- U.S. Faces Setback in Asia If TPP Trade Deal Doesn’t Pass – WSJ
- Obama’s TPP campaign could drag down Democrats – The Hill
- It sure sounds like Donald Trump is considering his biggest flip-flop yet – Washington Post
- Obama Readies One Last Push for Trans-Pacific Partnership – NY Times
- Fed’s Fischer upbeat on economic targets – FT
- Here’s what African Americans have to lose if Trump is elected – Washington Post
Europe:
- Unity in diversity: The way forward for Europe – VOX
- Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks: FAS – Reuters
- Italy to hold elections in 2018 whatever referendum outcome: Renzi – Reuters
- Team GB’s second place in Olympic table underlines value not price of gold medal – The Guardian
- Terror deaths in Western Europe at highest level since 2004 – BBC
- German minister wants facial recognition systems at airports, train stations – Yahoo
- Brexit X-men: how the prime minister’s key negotiators are coping – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Japan’s Abe Plays Super Mario in Rio to Promote 2020 Tokyo Games – Bloomberg
- Shinzo Abe emerges from a green pipe disguised as Super Mario during Rio Closing Ceremony – The Telegraph
- China ‘Selfie’ App-Maker Meitu Plans Hong Kong IPO Worth Up to $1 Billion – WSJ
- China’s fiscal ambition to increase debt risks – SCMP
- China’s new quantum satellite will try to teleport data outside the bounds of space and time – Quartz
- Chinese scientists study viability of manned radar station on the moon – SCMP
- China’s Secret Lists of Zombie Borrowers Leave Banks in the Dark – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Financial Standard – Millennials face gender inequality shock – Financial Standard
- Netflix’s Australian users could face delays seeing new shows because classification is taking too long – IT News
- Offshore detention: Australians have a right to know what is done in their name – The Conversation
- Michael Kirby warns against ‘dangerous’ political precedent of a gay marriage plebiscite – The SMH
- Marriage equality would pass both houses of new Parliament in free vote – The Age
- No action has been taken to stop a Medicare outsourcing project – SBS
- Why unemployment is no longer the best indicator of the economy’s health (Greg Jericho) – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison ‘frustrated’ super funds not investing more of $2 trillion in capital in Australia – ABC
- Scott Morrison attacks super funds not investing in coal for ‘political reasons’ – The Guardian
- BlueScope Steel profit jumps 160pc on cost cutting, surging sales – ABC
- Complaints to financial ombudsman service increase 60% in seven years – The Guardian
- Chinese buyers are dominating Australia property market – Daily Mail… I witness similar regularly in Melbourne’s Inner East
- Swan warns pursuing ‘trickle down economics’ will worsen inequality – ABC Radio
- Rising inequality in Australia could cost 3% of GDP, study finds – The Guardian
- Inequality to cost Aussies $500: report – SBS
- Sydney families spend $22,000 a year on transport: report – The SMH
- Welfare groups call on party leaders to retain carbon tax compensation ‘energy supplement’ – ABC
- John Howard deserves praise for effective border protection – Canberra Times
- Scott Morrison rejects $1 million lifetime super limit – The AFR
- Morrison holds line on superannuation – The Australian
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Gaming the LVR restrictions with ‘back-to-back’ house flipping – Interest.co.nz
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60% of Auckland voters want lower house prices – Interest.co.nz