Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hyperinflation and hunger: Turkmenistan on ‘edge of catastrophe’ – Aljazeera
- Bank Run: Deutsche Bank Clients Are Pulling $1 Billion A Day – Zero Hedge
- True cost of cheap GMO and pesticide food is health and climate crises – The Guardian
- ‘I like bitcoin,’ says House GOP leader McCarthy while bashing Facebook’s Libra coin – CBC
- Sovereign bonds arrive, but will these conquer? – City Falcon
Americas:
- WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019 – The Hill
- California doesn’t have enough doctors. To recruit them, the state is paying off medical school debt – LA Times
- US manufacturing sinks into recession amid trade wars – France 24
- As Fed approaches rate cut, policymakers debate how deep to trim – Reuters
- Who will be brave enough to speak the truth about the U.S. debt crisis? – Daily Caller
- GOP struggles to find backup plan for avoiding debt default – The Hill
Europe:
- Judge orders Germany’s Bayer Monsanto pay 2nd Roundup cancer claimant $25.27 million (€22.4 million). 13,400 more cases to go in the US alone, or $338 billion at this rate. – DW
- Germany’s Scholz sounds alarm on cryptocurrencies such as Facebook’s Libra – Reuters
- German renewables deliver more electricity than coal and nuclear power for the first time – DW
- Poland’s population to shrink by more than 25 percent, says EU – First News
- Hong Kong showed China is a threat to democracy. Now Europe must defend Taiwan – The Guardian
- Wage growth at highest rate since 2008 in the UK – BBC
Asia:
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- China says it will freeze out U.S. companies that sell arms to Taiwan. – Japan Times
- U.S.-China trade war may provide window of opportunity for Japan businesses – World News
- China’s economic growth in Q2 2019 is the weakest in 27 years – Finance & Markets
- Avoiding India’s Super-Rich Tax Won’t Be Easy For Foreigners – YUV News
- India to Keep Sugar Export Subsidies Even as Rivals Complain, Says Sources – Reuters
- Hong Kong Protesters, Police Clash as Demonstrations Target Chinese Traders – Reuters
- Japan Starts Minting Coins Stamped with New Imperial Era ‘Reiwa’ – Japan Times
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘It’s outrageous’: Dick Smith received $500,000 of franking credit refunds in one year – The SMH
- Adani dismisses allegations of misleading annual report as ‘administration error’ – SBS
- Adani facing prosecution for providing false information in Carmichael mine report – ABC
- Data retention: Government gave Optus ‘exemption’ from encrypting metadata – Computer World
- Government agencies pushing for longer mandatory metadata retention – The Guardian
- Josh Frydenberg faces renewed citizenship challenge – New Daily
- Labor MPs urge party to ‘show some guts’ on raising Newstart – The Guardian
- The idea of producing nuclear energy in Australia before 2040 is absurd – The Guardian
- Chinese language and culture teachers must ‘love the motherland’ to apply to teach in Australia – ABC
- Review slams APRA for keeping a low profile, urges overhaul of the regulator – ABC
- “Death spiral” – Who is private health insurance helping, exactly? – The Monthly
- Why Treasury blaming a lack of ‘job switching’ for stagnant wages may have backfired – The Guardian
- REINZ issues warning to rural sector about becoming over dependent on the Chinese market – Interest.co.nz
- Latest quarterly rent rise highest in 11 years – Interest.co.nz