Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Some Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Other Millions – WSJ
- The WTO has become dysfunctional – FT
- The Stock Market Is Shrinking. That’s a Problem for Everyone.– NY Times
- Inequality and ordinary living standards in rich countries – VOX
- Call for big oil groups to reveal crude-peak risk – FT
Americas:
- The Day Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia – New Yorker
- ‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans – NY Times
- President Admits Focus of Trump Tower Meeting Was Getting Dirt on Clinton – NY Times
- Steel Giants With Ties to Trump Officials Block Tariff Relief for Hundreds of Firms – NY Times
- Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders – NY Times
- Profits Surge at Big U.S. Firms – WSJ
- Trump makes bizarre claim that tariffs will help pay down the massive U.S. debt – Washington Post
- The ethnic segregation of immigrants in the US from 1850 to 1940 – VOX
- Trump’s New Obamacare Sabotage Could Really Stick It To Consumers – Huffington Post
- California’s destructive summer brings blunt talk about climate change – LA Times
- The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America – NY Times
- In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream – NY Mag
Europe:
- Where Europe’s migrants are – Politico
- Inside Russia’s invasion of the U.S. electric grid – Axios
- IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece – The Telegraph
- Liam Fox says no-deal Brexit now more likely than an agreement – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone? – FT
- Number of people sleeping in Hong Kong McDonald’s branches skyrockets, as residents battle high rents and substandard housing – SCMP
- How China Is Evolving From a Maker of Copycat Medicines Into a Producer of Complex Drugs – WSJ
- China Bears Score $7.1 Billion Victory in Long-Running ‘Pain Trade’ – WSJ
- China millennials’ love of credit cards raise debt fears – FT
- Asian Nations Push Back at U.S. on Trade, Sanctions – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Most Australians want more renewables to help lower power prices – poll – The Guardian
- Sky News Didn’t Make A Mistake With Blair Cottrell. This Is Their Business Model – Junkee
- Sky News reach to grow with broadcast on free-to-air across regional Australia – The Guardian
- Banking Royal Commission: Banks’ misconduct, not Kenneth Hayne’s inquiry, behind lack of confidence in sector – ABC
- NEG promises death of wind and solar, and even battery storage – Renew Economy
- Woolworths admits hotel staff profiled pokies players to encourage betting – The Guardian
- Centrelink payment rise ‘equal to cost of one submarine’ – ABC
- How planting trees and grasses can help stabilise farmland in a changing climate – ABC
- What legal right does your employer have to keep your opinions silent? – The Roundtable – ABC
- ReachTel Poll Federal 2PP: L/NP 48 ALP 52 – Twitter
- Uber drivers log off in Australia-wide protest against low fares – The Guardian
- Ecosystems across Australia are collapsing under climate change – Climate Change News
- ‘Defeats the purpose’: new rehabilitation laws allow loopholes for existing mines, advocates say – ABC
- The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia – Thompson Reuters
- How Australia’s meat industry plans to flood post-Brexit Britain with products banned in EU – Independent.co.uk
- Ardern is back and she has a message for businesses – Interest.co.nz
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‘Difficult to achieve further increases in construction activity’ – Interest.co.nz
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‘Meaningful lift in house prices into the mid-2020s’ – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ tipped to nip and tuck its forecasts – Interest.co.nz