Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Blockchain Hype Is Fading Fast – Streetwise Professor
- Bitcoin’s Use in Commerce Keeps Falling Even as Volatility Eases – Bloomberg
- Report: Use of Bitcoin in Commerce Hit Low in May After Peaking at $411 Mln Last Year – Coin Telegraph
- The End of the Global Housing Boom – Bloomberg
- Asset manager shares dive after no-fee fund launch – FT
- 4 Lessons From the Richest Woman In Wall Street History – Of Dollars and Data
- Wall Street Is Adding a New ‘Weinstein Clause’ Before Making Deals – Bloomberg
- Tesla steadies output of new Model 3 sedan, sees a profit – Reuters
- The World is Souring on New Debt – WSJ
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change – NY Times
- Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce – The Incomer
- What Are Economists Getting Wrong Today? – Bloomberg
- Global factory growth slowing; China-U.S. trade war biting – Reuters
Americas:
- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement – Federal Reserve
- Treasury Plans to Boost Borrowing as Trillion-Dollar Deficits Loom – WSJ
- Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure – The Atlantic
- Trump is leading a ‘hate movement’ against the media – Washington Post
- The Flat Yield Curve Is Flagging a Strong U.S. Economy – Bloomberg
- Why Americans Spend So Much on Health Care—In 12 Charts – WSJ
- After Years of Quiet, Democratic Candidates Can’t Stop Talking About Health Care – NY Times
- Millennials are now living in pods in their parents’ yards – NY Post
- Case-Shiller: Home prices rising at least twice the rate of inflation – Housing Wire
Europe:
- UK appoints former Obama adviser to lead tech review – FT
- Europe Says Greece Is a Comeback Story. The I.M.F. Isn’t Convinced. – NY Times
- Danish burqa ban comes into effect amid protests – The Guardian
- Iceland Wants Foreigners to Stop Buying Its Land – Bloomberg
- Sweden to sign $1 billion Patriot missile deal this week: report – Reuters
- ‘Spectacular’ ancient public library discovered in Germany – The Guardian
- Germany’s ‘China City’: how Duisburg became Xi Jinping’s gateway to Europe – The Guardian
- Germany lifts ban on reunions for refugees, rekindles integration debate – Reuters
Asia:
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- Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China – The Intercept
- For a Return to China, Google Is Said to Build a Censored Search Engine – NY Times
- China’s Empire of Money Is Reshaping Global Trade – Bloomberg
- BOJ’s Amamiya: Will take time to hit 2% inflation, powerful easing appropriate – Forex Live
- U.S. to Ratchet Up Proposed Tariffs to 25% on $200 Billion in Chinese Imports – WSJ
- Tesla Plans $5 Billion Investment in Chinese Factory – Bloomberg
- China vows retaliation if Trump slaps 25 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese imports – Reuters
- West begins to close door on Chinese investment – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Malcolm Turnbull urged to ‘come clean’ on meeting that led to $440m Barrier Reef grant – The Guardian
- My Health Record still isn’t safe enough to proceed. It needs more than a band-aid fix – ABC
- More than 15 arrested in Victoria Labor party rorts-for-votes investigation – The Guardian
- Coles backflips again… Free plastic bags banned from August 29 – SBS
- Former roads minister Duncan Gay takes job with transport consultancy MU Group – The SMH
- Competition regulator to assess Nine’s proposed takeover of Fairfax for impact on media diversity – ABC
- National Energy Guarantee: ACT won’t support plan in current form as COAG meeting looms – ABC
- Sunday surcharges remain as employees’ penalty rates fall – ABC
- Joyce to Turnbull: ‘Your first job for your nation is to look after the dignity of your people’ – 9News
- ‘The worst is yet to come’: House prices fall by fastest rate in six years – The SMH
- The secret to Aldi’s success is choosing what not to do – The Conversation
- ‘Pigs might fly’: Abbott slams Turnbull’s energy price policy – 9News
- ACCC wants Heinz to pay $10 million penalty for implying sugar-heavy food was healthy – ABC
- Rinehart’s secret millions to the IPA – The Saturday Paper
- Tasmania remains home to Australia’s oldest cars; lack of supply hampers electric vehicle use – ABC
- No-degree teacher training experiments on students, Australian Education Union says – The Guardian
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Has a new brain drain started? – Interest.co.nz
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NZ’s relatively modest shadow economy – Interest.co.nz