Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Currency War Erupts, Threatening to Ripple Across Global Markets – Bloomberg
- Mindsets: Optimism vs. Complacency vs. Pessimism – Collaborative Fund
- George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing. – NY Times
- A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result – NY Times
- Full-scale trade war looms closer – FT
- What really went wrong in the 2008 financial crisis? – FT
Americas:
- Republicans, Don’t Just Tweet About It. Do Something. – NY Times
- The NRA has deep ties to accused Russian spy Maria Butina – Mother Jones
- Trump Lines Up Powell as Scapegoat If Tax, Trade Moves Sour – Bloomberg
- Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do? – NY Times
- Trump’s Putin fallout: Inside the White House’s tumultuous week of walk backs – Washington Post
- Henry Kissinger: ‘We are in a very, very grave period’ – FT
- Why I’m No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic – Politico
- Is the Fed Partly to Blame for Wage Stagnation? – Barron’s
- Amazon, Toyota, Alcoa and others working to counter Trump’s tariff plans – Reuters
- The Future of the U.S. Looks a Lot Like Chicago – Bloomberg
- Fed’s Beige Book Shows Mounting Tariff Concerns Among Businesses – WSJ
Europe:
- Brexit uncertainty has already damaged Britain’s exporters – The Economist
- Brexit: White Paper, Westminster chaos and few choices – RTE
- Brexit: European Commission publishes Communication on preparing for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU – Europa
- European Commission provides guidance on protection of cross-border EU investments – Europa
- Romania to face stricter conditions to join Eurozone than past entrants – Business Review
- Germany drops sanctions on Turkey – Ahval News
Asia:
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- Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea – Washington Post
- Teslas in the palace signal brewing battle in Beijing – Nikkei
- U.S. tariffs to cost Germans up to 20 billion euros this year: report – Reuters
- Inside China’s surveillance state – FT
- In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable – NY Times
- Chinese real estate, charted – FT Alphaville
- Treasury’s Mnuchin says watching Chinese yuan weakness for manipulation – Reuters
- More Chinese firms make Fortune Global 500 – China.org
- Tech giants’ new defense: Our Chinese rivals are worse – Axios
Trans-Tasman:
- My Health Record ‘identical’ to failed UK scheme, privacy expert says – The Guardian
- Scientists in Australia develop world-first blood test to detect skin cancer before it spreads through the body – The Telegraph
- ‘It’s our version of the GFC’: warning on looming interest-only crisis – The Age
- Australians Protest Five Years of Offshore Detention Policy – NY Times
- Bureaucratic bungles cost taxpayers millions each year in secret compensation payments – ABC
- Call for doctors to help looming asylum seeker mental health crisis – The SMH
- Future Fund a major beneficiary of Rockpool wages exploitation – The Age
- Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning – ABC
- ‘Cruel blow for pensioners’: Labor promises to undo Coalition’s energy plan – The Guardian
- Overloaded reusable bags causing shoppers injuries, leaving physios to shoulder the burden – ABC
- ‘We desperately need this data’: insurance boss wants members’ digital health records – The SMH
- LNP candidate for Longman poised for historic by-election win – Sky News
- Call for children to be weighed and measured at school to tackle obesity epidemic – ABC
- Is the bottom about to fall out of our $6.9 trillion property market? – The SMH
- Putting an end to overcrowding? Migrants could be forced to live in regional Australia under new laws as nation’s population set to hit 25 million – Daily Mail
- Winston was right about the economy – Interest.co.nz
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