Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Crash Course in Market Timing Shows Cost of Being Wrong at Tops – Bloomberg
- Foreign U.S. bond holdings at Fed fall as trade rhetoric… – Reuters
- Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Waging an All-Out Technological Arms Race – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin: A Stock Photo Cryptocurrency Primer – The Atlantic
- A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins – Wired
- Barclays’s Rating Is Cut by Moody’s to Lowest Investment Grade – Bloomberg
- How the ‘Nerd’ Helped Rig Oil Auctions for Years – Bloomberg
- A trade war will increase average tariffs by 32 percentage points – VOX
Americas:
- For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings – Washington Post
- How One Man Got Rich Selling Machine Guns in America – Bloomberg
- Kentucky legislators send tax cuts for wealthy, tax hikes for the other 95 percent to governor’s desk – Washington Post
- Trump Says He’ll Take ‘Very Serious Look’ at Amazon’s Business – Bloomberg
- Yellen gets post-Fed payday in private meetings with Wall St. elite – Reuters
- Econ 101 No Longer Explains the Job Market – Bloomberg
- The Future of America’s Economy Looks a Lot Like Elkhart, Indiana – WSJ
- San Francisco’s Median House Price Hits a New High: $1.6 Million – Bloomberg
- Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination – NY Times
- Wow. Look at These Astounding Photos of Abandoned Dockless Vehicles in America. – Slate
- Canada has pulled off a brain heist – Axios
- China Tariffs Could Wreck Republicans in November – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Uber to suspend service in Greece after new legislation – Reuters
- Bank of England debates greater clarity on interest rate plans – FT
- The dollar-euro exchange rate, 2016-2018 – VOX
- The EU wants to pass a Copyright law that would harm Open Source and restrict our privacy. Let’s avoid that! – Change Copyright
- Russia linked to anti-Polish attacks in Ukraine: report – News PL
- German court bails former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont – Sky
- Boris Johnson has achieved the impossible: he’s been even worse than expected – New Statesman
- Protesters call for end to London’s surge in bloodshed as six more young men stabbed within 90 minutes – Standard
Asia:
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- U.S. to Consider Another $100 Billion in New China Tariffs – WSJ
- Trump Orders Consideration of $100 Billion in New China Tariffs – Bloomberg
- Trump Doubles Down on Potential Trade War With China – NY Times
- Asia Stocks Mixed on New Trade Move; Yen Rises: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
- India shuts down Bitcoins, other virtual currencies, prohibits any dealing with banks – Economic Times
- A trade war between America and China takes shape – The Economist
- China says it never backs down in the face of threats after trade salvos with U.S. – Reuters
- China, holding Treasuries, keeps ’nuclear option’ in U.S. trade war – Reuters
- China’s Anbang Insurance Gets $9.7 Billion Capital Injection From Rescue Fund – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Why Australia should be wary of the rise of the warrior cop, with tools to match – The Conversation
- ‘Robo-debt’ an unlawful exercise, former appeals tribunal member says – Canberra Times
- Not ‘leftie pinko nonsense’: Waleed Aly on the Greens idea of a universal basic income – The SMH
- BP claims an oil spill off Australia’s coast would be a ‘welcome boost’ to local economies – The SMH
- Consumers are sick of Coalition’s coal fantasy: They are going solar – Renew Economy
- Australia could reach 100% renewable energy by 2032: ANU prediction – Energy Matters
- Coalition still kidding itself about price of coal generation – Renew Economy
- Clive Palmer charged by ASIC over management of Coolum resort – The SMH
- Populist drum beats, wrong numbers drive our migration debate – The SMH
- Community-funded power ‘doable’, leading energy expert says – ABC
- AGL hits back at Barnaby Joyce claim it is ‘shorting’ the energy market – The Guardian