Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Some Bitcoin Backers Are Defecting to Create a Rival Currency – NY Times
- Wall Street regulator sets sights on digital coin offerings – Reuters
- The Broken Volatility Markets – Investing With Options
- Bankers Ditch Fat Salaries to Chase Digital Currency Riches – Bloomberg
- Here’s how blockchain can potentially end global poverty – The Next Web
- Bitcoin slammed by more than 10% to below $2,500; Ethereum down big too – CNBC
- Traders Think Hedge Funds Are Missing a Trick With Oil – Bloomberg
- Shale Boom May Finally Have Succumbed to Oil’s Price Slump – Bloomberg
- VIX on Pace to Shatter 24-Year-Old Record – WSJ
Americas:
- Senate Votes Down Broad Obamacare Repeal – NY Times
- Health Debate Continues After Vote to Replace Fails – WSJ
- Senate GOP Votes to Debate Health-Care Plan in Hard-Fought Step – Bloomberg
- Senate GOP’s Trumpcare Bill Fails Spectacularly With New Defections – Talking Points Memo
- How Obamacare saved Detroit – VOX
- U.S. treads water on cyber policy as destructive attacks mount – Reuters
- John McCain Is the Perfect American Lie – GQ
- Why the Rust Belt just gave Donald Trump a hero’s welcome – NY Post
- More than a third of California households have virtually no savings, are at risk of financial ruin, report says – Pasadena Star
- Herded into default, borrowers are then hounded to repay student loans – Reuters
- IMF Sees Venezuela Cratering With Another Double-Digit GDP Dive – Bloomberg
- In Silicon Valley, the Big Venture Funds Keep Getting Bigger – WSJ
- U.S. electric industry knew of climate threat decades ago: report – Reuters
- Google Fights Against Canada’s Order to Change Global Search Results – Wired
- Why Vancouver Is Becoming North America’s Next Big Tech Scene – Fortune
Europe:
- Investment in UK fintech tops pre-Brexit levels in first half of 2017 – Reuters
- Netherlands and UK are biggest channels for corporate tax avoidance – The Guardian
- Labour should back the single market. Barry Gardiner is wrong – The Guardian
- Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040 – The Guardian
- North Korea threatens nuclear strike on US – CNN
- US moves one step closer to imposing fresh Russia sanctions – BBC
- The Fight for Euro Clearing After Brexit Spills Out in Public – Bloomberg
- It’s still Europe that could rip the Tories apart – The Times
- Greece Starts Taking Orders for First Bond Offering Since 2014 – Bloomberg
- German Business Climate Hits Record as Economy Proves Robust – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Floods in India | Pictures – Europe
- China Toys With an Internet Lockdown – WSJ
- This Chinese Company Is Trying To Build The World’s Leading Blockchain Platform – Forbes
- Is Coercion the New Normal in China’s Economic Statecraft? – MacroPolo
- How to make $100,000 a month in China, live-streaming your life – Washington Post
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘A disgrace’: non-religious kids forced to waste their time at school – The SMH
- The threat of terrorism in Australia is a scam that costs us dearly – The SMH
- ‘Generation Rent’ and the ruinous rule of unfair and unjust laws – The New Daily
- Validity of Senator Matt Canavan’s dual citizenship excuse questioned – News.com.au
- Religious leaders occupy environment minister’s office to protest Carmichael coalmine – The Guardian
- Artificial intelligence: Australia falling behind as businesses fail to embrace AI, expert says – ABC
- Growth in Responsible Investment is Backed by Better Than Average Financial Returns – Probono Australia
- Unapproved land clearing an unfolding environmental crisis, green groups say – The Guardian
- Sunshine Coast goes 100% renewable energy with new solar farm – Energy Matters
- Australia Denies Reneging on UNHCR Deal to Accept Refugees – Time
- NSW Labor split over inequality policy – The SMH
- Former NSW water minister, top bureaucrat to be referred to ICAC after ABC investigation – The SMH
- Gig economy threatened by increasing regulation to ensure workers’ rights – ABC
- Overall household financial stress doesn’t appear elevated – Interest.co.nz
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Housing investors stay away in droves – Interest.co.nz