Sheep Country, Burra, 1950, Douglas Dundas, Art Gallery of NSW
Markets and Macro
- Gold buying by central banks hits its highest level in almost three years – CNBC
- Trump says he and China’s Xi had good exchange on trade – Nikkei Asian Review
- Start-Ups Ask, ‘Are We Making Money for Saudi Arabia?’ – NY Times
- What’s Next for the Murdochs’ Media Empire? – NY Times
- US President Donald Trump ‘asks cabinet to draft trade deal with China’ – SCMP
- Blame the Economists? – Project-Syndicate, DeLong
- The Future of Economic Convergence – Project-Syndicate
- Shares soar as Trump hints at possible US-China trade deal – Guardian
- US overtakes Russia to become the world’s biggest oil producer – BNE Intellinews
- Chinese investor appetite in US LNG unclear but talks continue: Tellurian – Platts
- Sovereign money: A challenge for science – VoxEU…maybe a weekend chance to debate the nature of money….
- Contagion in the European CoCos market – VoxEU
- Low-Interest Rates Do Not Justify The Egregious Earnings Multiples – Value Walk
Asia
- Japan aims to open door wider for foreign blue-collar workers in a controversial shift – CNBC
- How Trump Is Helping China – Project-Syndicate
- Exposing China’s Overseas Lending Project-Syndicate, Reinhart
- The Reforms China Needs – Project-Syndicate
- Chinese Stocks Are Sending a Scary Signal About the Economy – Bloomberg
- Treading carefully, Japan’s nuclear industry makes a comeback – Reuters
- China reveals trade war strain as yuan slides and manufacturing stalls – Guardian
- China signals big shift in economic course due to US trade war headwinds – SCMP
- How Chinese scientists use sperm whales to run secret messages for the military – SCMP
- IMRAN KHAN’S CHINA PLAY THREATENS MIDDLE EAST HEADACHE FOR BEIJING – SCMP
- Chinese dams ramp up Lao external debt – Nikkei Asian Review
- Local capital scarcity and industrial decline caused by China’s real estate booms – VoxEU
Europe
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- The Danger of an Unpopular Putin – Project-Syndicate…between the rubbish dumps of Khimki, the Kemerovo fire, and making people work longer, VVP has the old terminal leader’s curse in Russia…
- The Brexitization of European Politics – Project-Syndicate
- Euro area interbank market fragmentation: New evidence on the roles of bad banks versus bad sovereigns – VoxEU
- The Italian Budget: A Case of Contractionary Fiscal Expansion? – Peterson Institute
- France and Italy dangle juiciest EU tax breaks for Brexit bankers – Irish Times
Americas
- Goldman Sachs Is Drawn Into Prosecution of Vast Financial Fraud – NY Times
- Two-thirds of student-loan borrowers have less than $1,000 in the bank – Market Watch
- Trump’s trade war looms over divided U.S. farm belt ahead of vote – Reuters
- The Economy Is Doing That Cool Thing Where Wages Rise – Slate
- U.S. farmers are missing out on America’s economic boom – CBS
- Millennial Men Leave Perplexing Hole in a Hot U.S. Labor Market – Bloomberg
…Terra Incognita…
- Gina Rinehart ‘pays more tax than any other Australian’ – AFR…and did she do more to get the wealth than any other Australian?…
- Why are unions so unhappy? An economic explanation of the Change the Rules campaign – The Conversation
- Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property – The Conversation
- Close to the wind: the trials of Liberal Money-Man Stuart Robert – Michael West
- New Cold War: Just how independent can Australia be? – Pearls and Irritations, Williams
- Google vs News Corp in Australian algorithm war – Pearls and Irritations, Dempster
- Stuart Robert investigated by ASIC despite ASIC oversight – Michael West
- Fifth Pillar crumbles: why AMP policy-holders’ losses are Resolution’s profits. – Michael West
- Pricking the balloon of crony capitalism – Pearls and Irritations, Green
- Privatisation: When does it work, and when doesn’t it work? – Pearls and Irritations, M.Keating…good read…
- Oil and gas giants hit with $6 billion tax hike – Ninefax
- ‘Records falling everywhere’: solar panel demand goes through the roof – Ninefax
- Weak competition may be key to economy’s problems – Ninefax, Gitto….no may about it – corporate Australia is the valley of the oligopolistic gougers…
- A solution to the high price of living in the Land of Ozzigopoly – Ninefax, Hartcher…..if you only read one thing this weekend it should be this. Corporate Australia (particularly the biggest companies) does not compete with each other, they run customers through enfilades, and clip them over and over and over…
…and furthermore…
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- Bulldozing Borneo: A shrimp farm fells life sustaining forests. Some see an alternative. – Reuters
- New Blue-Collar Jobs Will Survive the Rise of AI – Bloomberg
- A Radically Realistic Climate Vision – Project-Syndicate
- Attitudes to religion and minorities in Eastern Europe remain largely unreformed after 25 years of democracy – BNE Intellinews, Aris…very good read, and impeccably true
- Losing it: The economics and politics of migration – VoxEU
- How much money you need to be part of the 1 percent worldwide – CNBC
- Electricity: the new medicine – The Conversation
- Paul Volcker’s Guide to the Almighty Dollar – The Atlantic
- A bankrupt university was inevitable once market forces took hold – Guardian