Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Crypto Currency Debate: Future of Money or Speculative Hype? – Musings & Markets
- Firm heterogeneity in consumption baskets – VOX
- Crypto currencies are mirroring pre-crash banking systems – FT
- Bitcoin Cash Just Mined its First Block, Making Blockchain Split Official – Coin Desk
- Dow ascends to record high and nears 22,000 – Reuters
- Bitcoin splits in two amid feud – CNet
- Globally, People Point to ISIS and Climate Change as Leading Security Threats – Pew Global
- Big Oil Bites the Low-Price Bullet – WSJ
- Bitcoin Is About to Have the Biggest Moment in Its History: Market Recon – The Street
Americas:
- Trump’s peace envoy expands his team – Haaretz
- Wells Fargo scandals could mean sweeping consequences – MarketPlace
- ‘Time to Move On’: Senate G.O.P. Flouts Trump After Health Care Defeat – NY Times
- Action on Trump’s tax cut plan could be delayed until next year – Washington Post
- Trump Erases the Line Between Conservatism and Conspiracy – NY Mag
- Trump Came In As A Weak President, And He’s Made Himself Weaker – Five Thirty Eight
- How Risky Loans Are Kept Afloat in Alphabet Soup – WSJ
- Opioid Prescriptions Across The U.S. – Five Thirty Eight
- U.S. Light Vehicle Sales at 16.76 million annual rate in July – Calculated Risk
- Four major US cities ring housing bubble alarm – CNBC
- Older Americans Aren’t as Poor as We Thought – Bloomberg
- US factory activity continues to expand, construction spending disappoints – CNBC
- Venezuela seizes opposition leaders Lopez, Ledezma from homes – Reuters
- Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids – Bloomberg
Europe:
- This YouGov research on Brexit proves baby boomers hate their own children – New Statesman
- ‘Some days I feel like I’ll drop dead’ – Britain’s biggest cleaners’ strike – The Guardian
- London concertgoers told to put away European flags – Politico
- New EU border checks leave UK tourists queuing for FOUR hours – Mail Online
- NATO jets intercept Russian aircraft near Estonian airspace – CNN
- U.K. Proposes Post-Brexit Fund to Close Technology Gap With U.S. – Bloomberg
- The ’extremists’ on both sides of the Brexit debate – YouGov
- Europe’s Rocky Recovery – Project Syndicate
- Eurozone Economy Speeds Up, Raising Chance of Stimulus Taper – WSJ
- Strong UK factory data sends sterling to 11-month high – Reuters
Asia:
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- Trump getting ready to take trade steps on China – Axios
- U.S. Plans Trade Measures Against China – WSJ
- Why Trading in Japan’s Government Bonds Is a Snooze – WSJ
- Hong Kong’s China problem makes it hard to implement tough talk – FT
- Chinese Central Bank Hiring Blockchain Experts – Coin Telegraph
- Indonesia Lifts Threat to Ban Encrypted App Telegram – Bloomberg
- In China’s hotel lobbies, small gaps in ’Great Firewall’ are closing – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Why There’s a Homeless Camp in the Heart of Sydney – Bloomberg
- Making politicians uncomfortable may just be the point of this homeless ‘tent city’ – Alex McKinnon – The Guardian
- Fact check: Have women become better educated whilst the gender pay gap hasn’t budged? – ABC
- Young Australians hit by flatlining wages, rising house prices as wealth gap widens, HILDA report reveals – ABC
- ‘A social crisis’: Number of homeowners under 40 falls dramatically in four years – Domain
- Alcohol a bigger scourge than meth: Doctors criticise ‘disappointing’ drug strategy – The SMH
- Adani royalties deal: Queensland’s ‘transparent policy framework’ kept secret – The Guardian
- The Government’s Plan To Have 10,000 Young People Intern In Pubs Is An Absolute Joke – Junkee
- Scorching Malcolm Turnbull quotes resurface as push for same-sex marriage postal plebiscite grows – The SMH
- Tony Abbott labels Labor’s call for republic vote an attack on Australia’s way of life – The Guardian
- Corruption authorities have been asked to investigate $400,000 worth of donations a tobacco executive made to the Labor Party. – The SMH
- NAPLAN results prompt SA Government to spend $67.5 million on public education – ABC
- Bunnings caught up in massive tradie tax fraud amid calls for ABN overhaul – The Age
- Apartment surge threatens to spill into oversupply: Citi – ABC
- Adani says it might not need $1 billion in federal cash to fund Carmichael mine – ABC
Capital gains disappearing as average house values flatten around NZ – Interest.co.nz
‘Our focus will be about bringing fairness back into New Zealand’ – Interest.co.nz
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