Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Machine Learning Meets Central Banking – FXdiebold
- Unmanned ’ghost’ ships are coming to our oceans – WEF
- Strong outlook with low inflation spurs risk-taking – BIS
- BIS warns higher interest rates could derail global growth – FT
- World’s Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Bitcoin Boom, BIS Says – Bloomberg
- Too soon to determine risks of central bank-issued cryptocurrencies: BIS – Reuters
- Global debt may be understated by $13 trillion: BIS – Reuters
- In a Great Recession, the case for flexible exchange rates is alive and well – VOX
Americas:
- Biden to oppose universal basic income – Axios
- Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare – Politico
- Don’t Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table – Huffington Post
- Trump Administration Moves to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling Studies – NY Times
- Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds – AEI
- Increasingly, foreign students choose Canada over US – Boston Globe
Europe:
- A Potent Fuel Flows to North Korea. It May Be Too Late to Halt It. – NY Times
- How Violence in Myanmar Radicalized a New Generation of Rohingya – NY Times
- ’I was just doing my job’: Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77 – RT
- Four U.S. Tourists Attacked With Acid in France, Official Says – Bloomberg
- Johnson accused of ’misusing’ Brexit data – BBC
- The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC – BBC
- The German Election and Donald Trump – Foreign Affairs
- The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s analysis of Britain’s ills – The Guardian
- Use of ’£350million per week’ figure to describe UK’s financial contributions to the EU – Statistics Authority
- Boris’s nasty politics would hurt the Tories and Britain – The Spectator
Asia:
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- Shinzo Abe considers snap election for Japan to shore up power – FT
- Abe set to call October election – Nikkei Asian Review
- US warns N.Korea will be ’destroyed’ if threats continue – Yahoo
- Haley: UN has ’exhausted’ options for N. Korea – Axios
- What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- We’ve turned our unis into aimless, money-grubbing exploiters of students – The SMH
- Victoria set to ban foreign political donations, shake up disclosures under new reforms – ABC
- Rupert Murdoch’s US empire siphons $4.5 billion from Australian business virtually tax-free – The SMH
- NDIS: people with severe mental health problems being denied access on ‘a daily basis’ – The Guardian
- Fact check: Drug testing welfare recipients – ABC
- On marriage equality, Australia’s progressive instincts have been crushed by political failure – The Conversation
- Michaelia Cash: Labor demands Minister face inquiry for possible breach of ministerial standards – ABC
- Superannuation being slashed as workers have wages cut, are forced out of enterprise agreements – ABC
- How regulators could kill off Australia’s water recycling industry – The Guardian
- The UK is rethinking university degrees and Australia should too – The Conversation
- S.A. minimum demand at record low as rooftop solar share hits 48% – Renew Economy
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Auckland fuel crisis: Defence force gets involved – Interest.co.nz
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