Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Market’s Got It Wrong – Daily Reckoning
- Global Economic Upswing Creates a Window of Opportunity – IMF
- Are Electric Vehicles Pushing Oil Demand Over a Cliff? – Inside Climate News
- OPEC Secretary General urges U.S. shale oil producers to help cap global supply – Reuters
- World Bank chief warns over robo-jobs – BBC
- Why middle class activism surprises economists – LSE
- Warren Buffett: Dow will hit 1 million in 100 years – CNN Money
- High-frequency traders adjust to overcapacity and leaner times – FT
Americas:
- Top U.S. Farm Group Warns Against Upending Nafta – Bloomberg
- Trump won’t give up this false tax claim – Politico
- Republicans, It’s Way Past Time for a Real Tax Plan – Bloomberg
- The IMF is catching up to the prospect that Trump won’t deliver tax cuts – Business Insider
- Trump Says He’ll Adjust His Tax Plan in the Next Few Weeks – Bloomberg
- Trump’s net approval rating has dropped dramatically in every state – Business Insider
- Trump Puts Spotlight on Sports Tax Breaks – WSJ
- Is the American Idea Doomed? – The Atlantic
- Congress Considers Low-Interest Loans for Puerto Rico – Bloomberg
- Puerto Rico’s $74 Billion Burden Left It Helpless When Maria Hit – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Catalan leader declares independence but puts it on hold – Politico
- Britain could join NAFTA if Brexit trade deal fails: Telegraph newspaper – Reuters
- Rich Europeans Have $14.7 Trillion and Are Ready to Pile Into Credit Markets – Bloomberg
- For Belfast, ‘America First’ Amounts to ‘Northern Ireland Last’ – NY Times
- Spain stares into Catalan ‘abyss’ – Politico
- Europe’s Hot New Bonds Obscure Junior Risks With Senior Tag – Bloomberg
- Germany has way more industrial robots than the US, but they haven’t caused job losses – Quartz
- Productivity growth ’to remain sluggish’ – BBC
Asia:
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- Alibaba to $15 Billion Exploring ’Moonshot’ Projects – Bloomberg
- China Debt-for-Equity Swaps Turn Out More Like Debt-for-Debt – Bloomberg
- Under Xi Jinping, China is turning back to dictatorship – FT
- China Charges Toward Electric-Car Supremacy – WSJ
- Kobe Steel’s Falsified Data Is Another Blow to Japan’s Reputation – NY Times
- Trump talks North Korea with Henry Kissinger – Axios
- China’s Leaky Political Pipeline – Council on Foreign Relations
- Modi’s pursuit of black money proves drag on India’s economy – FT
- In Kim Jong Un’s summer retreat, fun meets guns – Reuters
- N Korea ’hacks US-S Korea war plan’ – BBC
- The West should stop worrying about China’s AI revolution – Technology Review
- Kobe Steel’s Falsified Data Is Another Blow to Japan’s Reputation – NY Times
- The most neglected threat to public health in China is toxic soil – The Economist
Trans-Tasman:
- Tony Abbott dares us to reject evidence on climate, but reveals a coward – The Guardian
- Reverends in revolt over church’s $1 million donation to ‘no’ campaign – The Age
- ‘Frankly insulting’: government ‘robo-debt’ response angers Greens – Canberra Times
- Public sector union condemns Centrelink move to privatise call centre – The Guardian
- Penalty rates: Unions lose court appeal on public holiday, Sunday pay – ABC
- The Government wants to pay you to switch off this summer – ABC
- NBN may leave lives at risk in bushfires and floods, experts warn – The Guardian
- ‘Old Mate’: Campaign urges young people to hang out with older Australians – ABC
- Part-time work and ‘gig’ economy are breaking down the welfare system, IMF warns – The Age
- Green Power a Victim of Own Success in Australia as Costs Plunge – Bloomberg
- South Australia should become the first state in Australia to legalise recreational cannabis – Adelaide Now
- WA Liberals block gold royalty rate rise, leaving Labor with budget black hole – ABC
- Australia fails to live up to IMF forecast – SBS
- How ‘creatives’ turned our cities into unaffordable playgrounds for the rich – ABC
- Interest-only loans expensive and inappropriate for most owner-occupiers: ASIC – ABC
- Australia not ready for Chinese tourism boom, warns business group – ABC
- Incentives not enough to encourage unemployed to pick fruit – ABC ![endif]-->![endif]-->![endif]-->![endif]-->