Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Public Bravado, Private Doubts: Inside the Unraveling of Elon Musk’s Tesla Buyout – WSJ
- ‘I Was Cheated’: Tales From the Collapse of a Commodity Giant – Bloomberg
- Goldman Cashes In on Passive-Investing Boom With Big 4 P.M. Trade – WSJ
- Why isn’t inflation higher? – Marginal Revolution
- The Big Hedge-Fund Strategy That Isn’t Working – WSJ
- America’s Booming Economy Comes With a Cost for Global Growth – Bloomberg
- Central Banks Hear Warnings on Trade, Low Trust at Jackson Hole – Bloomberg
- Why Wall Street’s Bitcoin Dreams Keep Getting Dashed – Barron’s
- It Was Meant to Be the Better Bitcoin. It’s Down Nearly 90% – WSJ
- Global market structures and the high price of protectionism – BIS
- Trade and growth in the Iron Age – VOX
Americas:
- Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain – Washington Post
- The Full-Spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump – NY Times
- Republicans secretly study their coming hell – Axios
- As a Nation Mourns McCain, Trump Is Conspicuously Absent – NY Times
- The Income Gap To Affordable Housing – Accidental Fire
- Signs of a Strong Economy: Hedges Are Overgrown and Lawns Need Mowing – WSJ
- US student debt balloons past $1.5tn – FT
- The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined – NY Times
- St. Louis Fed’s Bullard warns of recession risk in raising rates – Stl Today
- Sarah Palin: ’John McCain will be remembered as an American hero’ – Mail Online
- Multiple fatalities reported, including a suspect, in mass shooting at Jacksonville, Fla., marketplace – LA Times
- U.S., Mexico Said Poised to Reach Nafta Deal as Soon as Monday – Bloomberg
- The Prosecutors Who Have Declared War on the President – Bloomberg
- Our fruit is rotting in the trees as laborers are kept out of the country – Washington Post
- America Is Withstanding the Test of Trump. The Republican Congress Is Not. – The Atlantic
Europe:
- Tinkering will not deliver a stronger role for the euro – FT
- ’More Brexit-influenced austerity will add to public debt, and hurt British exporters. It’s time the government understood that’ – The Independent
- UK banks loosen mortgage standards to maintain growth – FT
- Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU still holds the keys – The Guardian
- Greece’s “Bailout” Was a Disaster for Greece – Barron’s
- Russia wheels out its answer to Tesla – BBC
- On manoeuvres: battle to run the Bank of England – The Times
Asia:
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- The coming yearlong U.S. trade war with China – Axios
- The Chinese model is failing Africa – FT
- Trump’s China Hawks Prepare to Swoop as Trade Talks Go Nowhere – Bloomberg
- Who Thinks China’s Growth Is Slowing? – PIIE
- China’s re-education camps for a million Muslims – Supchina
- One quote from Chinese giant Alibaba shows how Trump’s trade war could backfire – Business Insider
- China’s central bank gives itself more leeway on setting exchange rate – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Rudd savages Abbott and Murdoch for wrecking Australian democracy – The SMH
- Morrison under pressure to quit after losing 100% of Newspolls in a row – Chaser
- Scott Morrison tries to switch focus to drought as WhatsApp messages reveal backroom bartering ahead of spill – ABC
- Refugee children on Nauru are Googling how to kill themselves, whistleblower warns – ABC
- Contaminated water is a problem in remote Australia, so an Aboriginal teenager decided to try and fix it – ABC
- Liberal Party elders lash Tony Abbott for acts of revenge on Turnbull’s Government – ABC
- More than one in 20 people with a HECS debt owes more than $50,000 – The Age
- Turnbull’s tech legacy: the MTM (Malcolm-technology mix) NBN – IT Wire
- Victorian Government stalls decision on new timber plantation for Latrobe Valley – ABC
- Bottled water and why Aussies still drink it – ABC
- Scott Morrison: The lump of coal PM – Independent Australia
- Former coal industry boss is Scott Morrison’s chief of staff – Renew Economy
- Deakin voters turn on Dutton plotter Sukkar in poll of crucial seats – The SMH
- The nation’s highest-paid university leaders – The SMH
- The return of the housing investor… – Interest.co.nz
- Phil Twyford unveils details of overhaul of ‘antiquated’ renting law – Interest.co.nz
