Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Assessing Global Imbalances: The Nuts and Bolts – IMF
- Unemployment insurance and reservation wages – VOX
- Tariffs on Solar Panels Could Slow Industry Growth by 66% – Bloomberg
- Sharing Economy: Why Blockchain Might Be Next Big Thing for Office Rental – Coin Telegraph
- Bitcoin, Ether Lead Digital Currency Slide From Highs – Bloomberg
- Crypto-Carnage Hits Entire Virtual Universe: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin Crushed – Zero Hedge
- This Time Really Is Different – Bloomberg
- Low Productivity Growth: The Capital Formation – NY Fed
- Shale Produces Oil, Why Not Cash? – WSJ
- Sovereign Wealth Fund Returns Tank As Yield Is Nowhere In Sight – Value Walk
Americas:
- Image of the United States has plunged under Trump, survey shows – Reuters
- Poll shows U.S. tumbling in world’s regard under Trump – Washington Post
- Under Trump, a majority of Canadians dislike the U.S. for the first time in 35 years, likely much longer – The Star
- US Leveraged Loan Issuance Hits Record $294B in 1H17 – Leveraged Loan
- Here’s what happens if the GOP health care bill becomes law – NBC
- CBO: 22 million more uninsured under Senate health bill – Politico
- 22m Americans to lose cover in Senate healthcare bill – BBC
- 6 Nobel Prize–winning economists announce opposition to Senate health bill – VOX
- Don’t be fooled by big banks’ stress test results – American Broker
- Elizabeth Warren: Americans Don’t Want Less Regulation – WSJ
- Bernanke: Economists totally missed Trump’s populist uprising, but now we need to help – CNBC
- Asylum seekers in Canada who fled Trump now trapped in legal limbo – Reuters
- Trump’s Anti-Nafta Stance Is on a Collision Course with Natural Gas – NY Times
Europe:
- Google Braces for EU Ruling That May Crimp Shopping Search Growth – Bloomberg
- How Putin Seduced Oliver Stone – NY Times
- Tower cladding tests after Grenfell fire lack transparency, say experts – The Guardian
- In U.K., All 60 Buildings Tested So Far for Fire Safety Have Failed – NY Times
- Brexit: Tory MP Leadsom says broadcasters should be patriotic – BBC
- How To Get Rid Of Germany’s Excessive Current Account Surplus – Social Europe
- Berlusconi Stages Comeback in Italy’s Mayoral Elections – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Liu Xiaobo’s unbearable fate is stark symbol of where China is heading – The Guardian
- China Wants to Save the Planet. Not Everyone Is Pleased – Bloomberg
- China’s Pension Gap is Growing and Nobody Wants to Talk About It – Bloomberg
- Another Lesson from Japan – Project Syndicate
- U.S. to list China among worst human trafficking offenders: sources – Reuters
- Japan seeks early free trade talks with UK amid Brexit fears – The Guardian
- China is the 800-Pound Gorilla in the Room When Modi Meets Trump – War on the Rocks
Trans-Tasman:
- Most Australians want renewables to be primary energy source, survey finds – The Guardian
- The 2016 census data is out and on average it looks like we’re getting older, more ethnically diverse and losing our religion – ABC
- ‘Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people’ (infographic) – ABC
- Australian census map: the results, region by region – The Guardian
- TPG savages broadband tax as band-aid for ‘broken’ NBN – IT News
- Home ownership rates continue to plunge, housing stress widespread: Census – ABC
- Building Australia’s first six star, green star residential apartment building – ABC
- The not-so-sweet link between Big Sugar and the peak body for dietitians – Brisbane Times
- Tony Abbott lays out alternative policy program to help the Coalition hang on to government – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull be warned: the young are coming – Grattan
- Why is Papua New Guinea’s election being ignored? – ABC
- Calls for federal inquiry into retirement villages amid Aveo scandal – The SMH
- New law would guarantee 25 Mbps broadband – Technology Decisions
- Aviation expert: think twice before flying with budget airlines – ABC
- Queensland Investment Corporation in talks to fund Galilee coal projects – ABC
- Unpaid internships: Millennials speak out as expert warns of legal risks – ABC
- Doctors taking “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to their own mental health – ABC
- Australia’s rising household debt could help push world into recession – The SBS
- Greens senator Lee Rhiannon ‘feeling bullied’, denies censure reports after schools funding campaign – ABC
- CBA joins other major banks to penalise interest-only borrowers with rate rise – ABC
- Peta Credlin says Liberal Party run by ‘little men with soft, soft backbones, no ticker, no heart and no soul’ – News
- Building Australia’s first six star, green star residential apartment building – ABC
- Police re-open Barclay investigation – Interest.co.nz
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Housing market’s big ‘wait and see’ – Interest.co.nz
- Little welcomes Winston’s GST stance, less keen on student debt – Interest.co.nz
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