Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How the cost of light has fallen by a factor of 500,000 – Human Progress
- New algorithm teaches robots human etiquette – Indian Times
- A Wall Street veteran’s views on climate risk: We must act now – The Hill
- Global coal production sees biggest decline in history – Tree Hugger
- Pimco’s New Bond King Is Nothing Like Bill Gross – WSJ
- When Currencies Fall, Export Growth Is Supposed to Follow—Until Now – WSJ
- Trends in artificial intelligence technology invention – VOX
- Big Oil Firms Are Exploring a New Frontier in Shale: Profits – WSJ
- The U.S. Stock Market Belongs to Bots – Bloomberg
Americas:
- America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t – Washington Post
Seven U.S. Sailors Confirmed Dead After Collision With Cargo Ship – WSJ - Richest Americans Will Control 70% Of Country’s Wealth By 2021, BCG Says – Zero Hedge
- Trump’s silence on Russian hacking hands Democrats new weapon – Politico
- The Minimum Wage Debate Is Not Over – Forbes
- Pro-Trump media ignores president’s broken immigration promise – CNN Money
- The Hunt For The Next Portland: Hoteliers Bet Big On Small City America – Fast Company
- More people now subscribe to Netflix than cable TV in the US – Business Insider
- Poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban centers – Washington Post
- The Madness of King Donald – Foreign Policy
- Only Mass Deportation Can Save America – NY Times
- A Mexican Town Is Giving Americans Something Donald Trump Can’t: Affordable Dental Care – Buzz Feed
Europe:
- The ‘time machine’ reconstructing ancient Venice’s social networks – Nature
- Are you middle class in Western Europe? Try our country-by-country income calculators – Pew Research
- Wealth gap rises as home ownership falls, says study – The Guardian
- ‘No way’ UK can get passporting rights after Brexit, says former Luxembourg fin min – CNBC
- Macron’s party on course for a landslide – France24
- UK steel emerges from ashes of crisis – FT
- Grenfell Tower fire: 58 ’missing, presumed dead’ says Met amid protests at May’s leadership – The Guardian
- May’s top aide defends PM’s Grenfell response after Newsnight interview – The Guardian
- Tories refused to build social housing because it would ’create Labour voters’, Nick Clegg says – The Independent
- Theresa May starts Brexit talks with the EU on Monday in an embarrassing position – The Independent
- The sooner Theresa May goes the better – The Times
- Why Greece is Germany’s ‘de facto colony’ – Politico
Asia:
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- Meet the Chinese finance giant that’s secretly an AI company – Technology Review
- China is torturing civil-rights lawyers – The Economist
- Chinese Deal Maker Held in Corruption Probe – WSJ
- Western media shouldn’t speculate when reporting on China – Global Times
- China warns against political intervention in takeovers of US technology – People’s Daily Online
- How to Stop China in the South China Sea – Foreign Affairs
Trans-Tasman:
- Why a federal ICAC is voters’ best chance at breaking the scandal cycle – The Guardian
- Australia on watch-list as China billions pour into property – Michael West
- ‘They should get $500 maximum’: meet the property sellers dumping agents – The Guardian
- Greg Jericho: Coalition’s debt hypocrisy trashed its economic brand – but a trap lies ahead for Labor – The Guardian
- Airbnb in Australia shows the sharing economy has a ‘dark side’ – ABC
- Are politicians natural-born psychopaths? Well, you could say that – New Daily
- ‘Mindless’ state government policies to blame for rising power prices: Frydenberg – The Age
- 20 Australian inventions that changed the world – Australian Geographic
- Tesla wins contract with major Australian electric grid to deploy Powerpacks across several sites – Electrek
- Medicinal cannabis: Doctors to learn how to prescribe drug at Melbourne course – ABC
- Turnbull ministers silent as Hinch backs trio’s court attack – The SMH
- Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they’re made out to be. Here’s why – The Conversation
- Australia’s reputation in China entrenched as greedy, untrustworthy and a US lapdog – The AFR
- Malcolm Turnbull faces fresh leak after calling China a ‘frenemy’ – News.com.au
- Coal to stay in energy mix for foreseeable future, says Barnaby Joyce – The Guardian
- Australian farmer’s weed-destroying invention draws world interest – ABC
- Former fire chief says Melbourne’s Lacrosse tower still poses risk – The Guardian
- The job Chief Scientist Alan Finkel ‘wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole’ – Canberra Times
- ‘Canberra to blame’ for next month’s sky-rocketing energy bills: experts – New Daily
- Home loan crackdown and the Law of Unintended Consequences – Canberra Times
- How Gonski would rip billions from Catholics to boost public schools – Canberra Times
- Housing supply & demand vs housing market supply & demand – Interest.co.nz
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Goff wants builders not councils to be liable for shoddy work – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The ’Busy’ Trap – NY Times
- Tesla is so sure its cars are safe that it now offers insurance for life – Mashable