Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Tesla’s board seeking more information on Musk’s financing plan – sources – Reuters
- Tesla Falls, Wiping Out Tweet-Fueled Rally in Just Two Days – Bloomberg
- The spoils of being a partner at an investment bank – FT
- ‘The Dude’ Is Back With a $100 Million Bet on Turkish Stocks – Bloomberg
- The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt – NY Times
- World Bank breaks ground with blockchain bond sale – FT
- Defining Emerging Markets – Philosophy of Money
- Boss of Bill Gross says bond fund manager ’has been wrong and wrong badly’ – CNBC
- 2018 Is Shaping Up to Be the Fourth-Hottest Year. Yet We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming. – NY Times
- Valuations Are Slipping Even as Stocks Hover Near Records – WSJ
- The Bond Market Is Developing a Cash Problem – Bloomberg
- International Trade – St Louis Fed
- Trump’s Trade ’Spats’ Risking A Global Currency War – EM Views
Americas:
- “What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They’ve Created a Monster – Vanity Fair
- Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson – The Atlantic
- U.S. Officials Scrambled Behind the Scenes to Shield NATO Deal From Trump – NY Times
- Melania Trump used visa opposed by her husband to get her parents’ citizenship – CNN
- Tariffs on steel and aluminium are creating some winners – The Economist
- Federal deficit jumps 20 percent after tax cuts, spending bill – The Hill
- U.S. Judge Authorizes Seizure of Venezuela’s Citgo – WSJ
- Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria deaths more than 1,400 – AP
- The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q2 2018 – Wolf Street
- New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media – Daily Beast
- US regulators warned against reducing bank capital requirements – FT
- Why The 1980s Are Thriving at Trump’s Fed – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Britain’s wealthiest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe leaves the UK to move to Monaco – The Telegraph
- The UK could use a new centrist party, but not another anti-immigrant one – The Guardian
- UK refuses visas for a dozen Edinburgh book festival authors – The Guardian
- The EU is preparing to offer a major Brexit concession to Theresa May – Business Insider
- Interest rates will stay low for 20 years – The Guardian
- The EU Spent a Bundle to Unify the Continent. It’s Not Working. – WSJ
- Russia Blasts New U.S. Sanctions Plan as Ruble, Stocks Slide – Bloomberg
- The cost of Britain’s “bargain basement” model – New Statesman
- Rents ’could rise 15% in five years’ – BBC
Asia:
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- How China Wins the Trade War – NY Times
- Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership:… – Reuters
- Giant shipload of soya beans circles off China, victim of trade war with US – The Guardian
- China Doesn’t Want to Play by the World’s Rules – Foreign Policy
- China’s Japanese Lesson For Fighting Trump’s Trade War – Forbes
Trans-Tasman:
- Adani spent a year trying to hide this information on its reef spill – ABC
- Majority of voters say record low wages growth is an election issue – The Guardian
- News Corporation chalks up $1.9bn loss as Foxtel’s value written down by another billion – ABC
- Media fail and the last days of Malcolm Turnbull – New Politics
- Aussie Pirates Consume More, Site Blocking or Not – Torrent Freak
- TAFE teachers’ claim cuts force them to bring toilet paper to work – The SMH
- End to APS staff cap will stop government waste on contractors – Canberra Times
- Declare NEG “dead, buried” and wait for the election – Michael West
- Calls for Queensland to jail employers over ‘rampant’ wage theft – The Guardian
- John Hewson: We must continue to call out racism everywhere – The Courier Mail
- “Turnbull’s grovelling mea culpa on China risks harming Australia” – Kevin Rudd
- CSIRO tech accelerates hydrogen vehicle future – Man Monthly
- Tasmanian farmers sending truckloads of feed to drought-stricken farmers on mainland – ABC
- Australia’s foreign aid budget called into question when farmers face drought – ABC
- BOM: Is it cold enough for a jacket? Here’s why you should check the ‘feels like’ temperature – ABC
- Defence giants: the “Valley of Death” is really a Mountain of Money – Michael West
- Turnbull’s grovelling mea culpa on China risks harming Australia – Canberra Times
- RBNZ will cut OCR to 0.75% if growth falls and stays below 3% – Interest.co.nz