Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How and why to short Uber – Boing Boing
- Bitcoin’s Latest Economic Problem – Market Ouvert Or Squatters’ Rights – Forbes
- Billionaire Bears: Gross, Gundlach Fear a Rout – Barron’s
- We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here? – NY Times
- ‘No Empirical Evidence’ for Thomas Piketty’s Inequality Theory, IMF Economist Argues – WSJ
- Bank leverage and monetary policy’s risk-taking channel – VOX
- Vix fear index at lowest level in 2 years – FT
- Globalization and its New Discontents – Project Syndicate
- Don’t Panic About the Credit Market – WSJ
- Brexit and globalisation – VOX
Americas:
- July Employment Report: 255,000 Jobs, 4.9% Unemployment Rate – Calculated Risk
- Payrolls Surge as U.S. Hiring Gains Broad-Based for Second Month – Bloomberg
- Wage growth remains at its highest rate since the Great Recession – Business Insider
- The U.S. Can and Should Boost Growth – Bloomberg
- The Real Value of $100 in Each State – Tax Foundation
- As Donald Trump Incites Feuds, Other G.O.P. Candidates Flee His Shadow – NY Times
- Trump’s Intellectuals – The Atlantic
- Donald Trump now says even legal immigrants are a security threat – Washington Post
- Trump Is Against Legal Immigration Too – Cato
- Newly declassified document sheds light on how president approves drone strikes – Washington Post
- Paul Ryan stares down a GOP revolt in his back yard – Washington Post
- Why Trump is Failing the White Working Class – Weekly Standard
- Democratic surge shrinks GOP lead – OC Register
- Rising Sea Levels Could Cost U.S. Homeowners Close to $1 Trillion – Bloomberg
- A movement of staunch conservatives and doomsday-watchers to the inland north-west is quietly gaining steam – The Economist
- Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City – NY Times
- Big Government Keeps Getting Smaller – Bloomberg
- A Surreal Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico – NY Times
- The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires – Bloomberg
- Through the Venezuelan Looking Glass – Project Syndicate
Europe:
- Why northern European Euroscepticism is rooted in religious history – LSE
- Two Belgian Police Officers Attacked By Machete-Wielding Man Shouting “Allahu Akbar” – Zero Hedge
- Don’t blame Brexit for this rate cut. Blame Project Fear – The Telegraph
- UK-EU relations after Brexit: What’s best for the UK economy? – VOX
- The Greek crisis: An autopsy – VOX
- The Tories’ intellectual decline – Stumbling & Mumbling
- Support for Germany’s Merkel plunges after attacks – Reuters
Asia:
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- Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century – The Times
- China is flooding Silicon Valley with cash. Here’s what can go wrong. – Washington Post
- In a Victory for Modi, India Overhauls Its Tangled Tax System – NY Times
- Debt risks on the rise as government treated as ’nanny’ – Reuters
- The Rice Cooker Has Become a Test of China’s Ability to Fix Its Economy – WSJ
- China Inc. Has $1 Trillion in Cash That It’s Too Scared to Spend – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Populist whinge’: Morrison says leave banks alone – Canberra Times
- Foreign currency dealings in spotlight as Government scrutinises bank charges with customers – ABC
- David Leyonhjelm, Malcolm Roberts push for Section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act to be removed – ABC
- ‘Supermarkets’ “pay-on-scan” scam ups ante on suppliers’ – Michael West
- Census 2016: What the Bureau of Statistics is going to do with our names – The SMH
- The lazy prime minister – Independent Australia
- Supermarket wars are gaining traction – The SMH
- A Radical, $150 Billion Plan for High-Speed Rail in Australia – Next City
- Treasurer warned over Chinese investment – SBS
- Adoption by same-sex couples to be legalised in Queensland – ABC
- BP reveals Great Australian Bight oil drilling sites are within marine reserve – The Guardian
- Banks brace for a deposit war – The AFR
- Canberra underestimating bank risks, investors say – The AFR
- ‘Sob stories’ no excuse for crime: Andrews – The Australian
- UK looks to us on immigration – The Australian
- Large Senate crossbench puts Turnbull’s tax plan in doubt – Canberra Times
- Turnbull’s best chance for a stable government – Canberra Times
- Innovation doesn’t help job creation – Canberra Times
- Scott Morrison urges Labor to support ‘zombie’ budget repair – The Guardian
- Think Big: Auckland, immigration, and the absence of income growth – Interest.co.nz
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Who wins from the current tax system? – Interest.co.nz
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