Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Double-entry Bookkeeping, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy – BBC
- A Small Bet Is Reaping Big Gains for Samsung – WSJ
- What We Know about the Climate Change–Hurricane Connection – Scientific American
- The integration of economic history into economics – VOX
Americas:
- Hurricane Irma poses toughest test for U.S. nuclear industry since Fukushima – Reuters
- Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30% of Americans – Forbes
- The Equifax Breach Exposes America’s Identity Crisis – Wired
- Hurricane Irma is literally sucking the water away from shorelines – Washington Post
- Donald Trump Is Irrelevant to Corporate America – New Yorker
- President Trump’s War on Science – NY Times
- Can an Embrace of ‘Bourgeois Values’ Revive America? – NY Mag
- A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been – Politico
- Miami Underwater – New Yorker
- ‘Trump betrays everyone’: The president has a long record as an unpredictable ally – Washington Post
- Government expands crackdown on money laundering in real estate – CNBC
Europe:
- Trump’s fascist contagion gives the anti-Brexit cause what it lacked: an emotional heart – The Guardian
- Don’t take lessons on patriotism from Brexiters – The Guardian
- All the worst lies about Brexit are about to be revealed – Washington Post
- UK banks call for ’mutual recognition’ deal with EU after Brexit – Reuters
- France, Germany, Italy, Spain seek tax on digital giants’ revenues – Reuters
- ECB’s Stournaras backs calls for euro zone integration – Reuters
- How Angela Merkel is changing, and not changing, Germany – The Economist
Asia:
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- India says UK free trade deal will take years – BBC
- Next Stop for the Steve Bannon Insurgency: China – NY Times
- A Communist Party gathering in China will test Xi Jinping’s power – The Economist
- China’s ’Javanka’ fanatics dismayed as first daughter cancels visit – The Guardian
- Facebook’s Chinese Push Still Faces Some Huge Challenges – The Street
- China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push – Bloomberg
- My guide to the debate raging over China’s Northeast rust belt – Andrew Batson
- The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea – New Yorker
Trans-Tasman:
- Tax cuts for the rich don’t help the rest. Don’t take my word for it, ask the IMF | Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- Nationals party votes to remove all subsidies for renewable energy – The SMH
- South Australia launches tender for hydrogen plant, buses – Renew Economy
- Malcolm Turnbull slams ‘Blackout Bill’ Shorten in attack on Labor’s energy policy, calls for NT to frack – ABC
- Defence tells foreign bidders no need to work with local shipbuilders in $35m frigate contract – ABC
- ‘People are dying’: Trial of safe injecting room blocked by Andrews government – The Age
- Victoria steps in to help 100 asylum seekers cut off by Coalition – The Guardian
- Support for same-sex marriage falling and ‘no’ vote rising, advocate polling shows – The SMH
- How human waste is helping Aussie farmers get the best out of their land – ABC
- Australians may well love their sport, but why don’t we delight in success elsewhere? – The Conversation
- Why Chinese traffic signs will soon appear along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road – Yahoo
- How much will McGowan’s broken budget promise haunt him? – ABC
- Logging halt would boost Victorian economy, study finds – ABC
- Making rent cheaper for Melbourne’s low-income earners – ABC
- Why is business optimistic when consumers are not? – ABC
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Signs the slump in Auckland auction sales may have bottomed out – Interest.co.nz