Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- What The World Thinks Of Trump – Five Thirty Eight
- An empirical analysis of peer-to-peer lending – VOX
- Fed’s balance-sheet unwind will be moment of truth for financial markets – MarketWatch
- BIS Hunts for ‘Missing’ Global Debt, Inflation – WSJ
- What Jamie Dimon Got Wrong About Bitcoin and Tulips – Apple News
- S&P 500 at 2,500 Latest Milestone for a Supercharged Bull Run – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Last-Ditch Obamacare Repeal Is Worth Taking Seriously – Bloomberg
- Trump to Push Nationalist Policy at U.N. – WSJ
- The Next Crisis Will Start in Silicon Valley – Bloomberg
- Hurricane Maria poses a catastrophic threat to the Caribbean – Grist
- Hurricane Maria: ’we have lost all’ says Dominica prime minister – The Guardian
- How Canada’s International Trade is Changing with the Times – Bank of Canada
Europe:
- Male employees want flexible work too – BBC
- The rise of robots in the German labour market – VOX
- The former Soviet officer who trusted his gut — and averted a global nuclear catastrophe – Washington Post
- Korean peninsula draws range of military drills in show of force against North Korea – Reuters
- Flush With Cash: €500 Bank Notes Sent Down the Drain – WSJ
- Why Russia is finally embracing virtual currencies. Hint: It rhymes with honey wandering – NewsWeek
- UK debt is explosive – and it only needs a spark to light the fuse – The Guardian
- WWF files Greece lawsuit over pollution from tanker sinking – AP
Asia:
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- Trump’s top negotiator brands China an ‘unprecedented’ threat to global trading system – SCMP
- China’s Electric Vehicles Run on Coal! Yes, But … – Bloomberg
- Weakest China Developers Menaced by $38 Billion in Bond Puts – Bloomberg
- Selling a Piece of Hong Kong History – Bloomberg
- China Scrambles to Catch Up With Runaway Boom in Fintech Investment – WSJ
- China tightens cryptocurrency ban with new directive – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- Revealed: the cost of stopping the boats put at $9.6 billion – The SMH
- Hospitals and health groups demand 20 per cent soft drink tax – The SMH
- Australian wages have risen by just $3 a year over the past decade – Canberra Times
- Australia Has Gone From Cheapest To Most Expensive Power – The GWPF
- How a $10k donation bought a penthouse meeting with Matthew Guy for a property developer – The Age
- Matthew Guy, Victorian Opposition Leader, says developer meeting claims are ‘fake news’ – ABC
- Gold Coast Council: Senior Labor figures pushing for Queensland-wide ban on developer donations – ABC
- Anti-Adani protesters arrested outside Abbot Point coal terminal near Bowen – ABC
- Pauline Hanson blames M1 freeway congestion on immigrants – 9News
- NSW Government commits to less than half of child protection report recommendations – ABC
- Peter Dutton admits he will need to rethink English test in citizenship overhaul – The Guardian
- We’ve turned our unis into aimless, money-grubbing exploiters of students – The SMH
- WA homeowners falling behind on mortgages at record rates – Perth Now
- Auckland fuel crisis gets political – Interest.co.nz
- Leaky homes crisis back in focus – Interest.co.nz
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