Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Effects of benchmarks on international capital flows – VOX
- New study: it would be cheap to retrain coal workers for solar jobs – VOX
- All major US stock indexes post record closes; oil rallies – CNBC
- S&P 500 Total Return vs. Price – Bespoke Premium
- IEA: Crude Production to Fall Behind Demand – WSJ
- As Libor Blows Out To Fresh 6 Year Highs, A $28 Trillion Debt Question Emerges – Zero Hedge
- King Street Warns Of Long Overdue Credit Cycle – Value Walk
- Is Market Rally Sustainable on Anemic Volume? – Bloomberg
- Gold investment at highest ever level – The Guardian
Americas:
- U.S. Considers Sanctions Against Russia in Response to Hacks of Democratic Groups – WSJ
- Trump: Americans could be tried in Guantánamo – Miami Herald
- Poll: Support for TPP grows – The Hill
- Next president faces possible ObamaCare meltdown – The Hill
- Killing Free Trade Deals Won’t Magically Bring U.S. Jobs Back – Fortune
- The Millions of Americans Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Barely Mention: The Poor – NY Times
- Why They Really Support Trump: The View From The Campaign Trail – middlebury.edu
- 2016 Third Warmest for U.S. Through July – Climate Central
- Silicon Valley is getting so expensive that even lawyers can’t afford to live there – VOX
Europe:
- CFM Survey July 2016: Brexit and the economics profession – VOX
- Negative Rates for the People Arrive as German Bank Gives In – Bloomberg
- For Top Banking Talent After Brexit, London Loses Some Allure – WSJ
- Russia announces war games after accusing Ukraine of terrorist plot – Reuters
- Government sells debt at all-time record low interest rate in wake of Brexit vote – The Independent
- Boris Johnson says Britain must ’normalise’ its relationship with Russia – The Telegraph
- Italy is considering jailing parents who make their kids go vegan – Quartz
- Out of sight, out of mind? Europe’s migrant crisis still simmers – Reuters
Asia:
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- China Capital Outflows Were as High as $39B in July – Epoch Times
- China’s athlete of the moment burped and ate cupcakes during a live stream with 10 million fans – Quartz
- Cutting China’s Capital Down to Size – WSJ
- China takes a gamble in scapegoating the west – FT
- Why China Trade Hit U.S. Workers Unexpectedly Hard – WSJ
- UBS: China’s Already Started Bailing Out its Banks – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Suicide rate for young Indigenous men highest in world, Australian report finds – ABC
- Three-quarters of Australians would oppose a popular vote on their own right to marry: poll – The Age
- Root of census failures say “badly done” IBM and ABS. Still down for some. – The Conversation
- Census: Scott Morrison says Government may seek compensation over website failure – ABC
- ‘Historic victory’ as government buys back BHP coal licence – The SMH
- Tax men swoop on dodgy firms – The SMH
- Australians spend eight times more hours per week looking at screens than with loved ones: survey – ABC
- Fairfax to continue printing daily newspapers for now, but demise ‘inevitable’ as circulation drops – ABC
- Ausgrid electricity sale: Chinese media accuses Australia of ‘Chinaphobia’ – News.com.au
- Labor likely to do superannuation deal with Coalition, says Jim Chalmers – The Guardian
- Why do students enrol in massively oversupplied university degrees? – Canberra Times
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Bank lobby group ‘fully supports’ RBNZ’s new LVR restrictions – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The Sharks That Live to 400 – The Atlantic