Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Designing mega-regional trade agreements – VOX
- Opec reverses its hedge fund condemnation – FT
- Your ETF just shut down. Here is what to do – WSJ
- The case against calling it a bitcoin bubble – Quartz
- Visualizing the Anxiety of Active Strategies – Think New Found
- G20 draft no longer rejects protectionism or competitive devaluations – Reuters
- OECD Warns There Is A “Disconnect” Between Markets And The Global Economy – Zero Hedge
- Cash Dwindles to Two-Decade Low in Global Investor Portfolio – Bloomberg
- Why taxing robots won’t be easy – Axios
- Stocks are Overvalued – Barron’s
- The Shale Industry Is Scrambling to Catch Up to Its Own Boom – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say – NY Times
- The debate over the Affordable Care Act is really a debate over wealth redistribution – Washington Post
- The House Republicans’ health-care bill is a thicket of bad incentives – Washington Post
- Income separates the winners and losers in Republicans’ health-care plans – Washington Post
- Health insurance companies would get $1 billion or more windfall under GOP Obamacare replacement plan – CNBC
- To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard, airport security – Washington Post
- How Did We Get To 11 Million Unauthorized Immigrants? – NPR
- There’s only one way to fix L.A.’s traffic, and it isn’t Elon Musk’s tunnels. We need tolls – LA Times
- Brazil’s recession worst on record – BBC
- Canada sees third straight trade surplus; gains ’no longer a blip’ – Globe & Mail
- Mexico cancels sugar export permits to U.S. in trade dispute – Reuters
Europe:
- Dutch Populist Wilders Feels Trump Burn With Slide in Polls – Bloomberg
- Germany’s trade surplus sparks concern at home and abroad – FT
- Russia Is Running on More Than Just the Black Stuff – Bloomberg
- Russian TV Crew Tries to Bribe Swedish Youngsters to Riot on Camera – Foreign Policy
- Putin pardons woman sentenced to seven years in penal colony for text message – Reuters
- Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump – Politico
Asia:
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- Singapore Exchange Proposes Bringing Back Lunch Breaks, Widening Bid Sizes – Bloomberg
- Swift network moves to ban North Korean banks from international banking system – WSJ
- China’s Capital Controls Trigger a Backlash After Scrapped Deals – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Gift to China Tech Hiring – Bloomberg
- China’s massive bond market coming to index near you—Heard on the Street – WSJ
- Chinese Fintech Firms Launch Blockchain Supply Chain Finance Platform – cryptocoinsnews.com
Trans-Tasman:
- Fracking Banned In Victoria, Giving Certainty To Farmers – State Government
- Bill Shorten: ”The bills go up so why is our wage going down?’ – The Age
- Centrelink debt recovery program to be investigated at Senate committee – ABC
- Centrelink would be ‘shut for fraud’, says Turnbull’s digital guru – Canberra Times
- Centrelink robo-debt system is an ‘abuse of power’, inquiry hears – The Guardian
- Foreign Correspondent and 7.30 staff tapped for redundancy at ABC – The Guardian
- Cory Bernardi’s $1m secret shows why the rules are broken – WA Today
- Clean Energy Finance Corp rejects Federal Government’s view on renewables causing blackouts – ABC
- The angry summer is ‘the new normal’ as scientists urge action on climate change – The SMH
- Census chiefs unprepared for website crash, FOI documents show – ABC
- Private super: Paul Keating’s innocent fraud – Independent Australia
- Lee Rhiannon downplays reports Left Renewal faction is splintering Greens – The Guardian
- This Leigh Sales Interview Perfectly Sums Up Why People Hate Politicians – Junkee
- Hockey criticises US for reneging on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – ABC
- Shorten blast ‘not backed by data’ – The Australian
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Piling up the problems – Interest.co.nz
