Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Cannabis has gone from a criminalized drug to a multibillion-dollar global boom in just a few years – Business Insider
- Coronavirus Economic Turmoil Makes Case for Alternative Data – Bloomberg
- What future for global oil demand? – Exploring
- World’s largest study shows carbon pricing reduces emissions – Phys.org
- World’s population likely to shrink after 50 years – 24 Story
- Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born – BBC
Americas:
- U.S. Job Gains Look Like They’re Slowing or Reversing in July – Bloomberg
- Rent is Unaffordable in Every Single State in America – Huff Post
- ‘Absolute chaos’: San Francisco Bay Area businesses grapple with start-stop opening and closing – SF Chronicle
- The 1% illegally dodged 70% of taxes ($381 BILLION/YEAR), while the rich republicans and democrats gut the IRS funding. – CBO
- Senate Democrats push to extend enhanced unemployment benefit until jobless rates fall – CNBC
- Canada log export plunge emerges as first possible TPP violation – Nikkei
- How the American Worker Got Fleeced – Bloomberg
- Mortgage Delinquencies Suddenly Soar at Record Pace – Wolf Street
Europe:
- Electric-car subsidies make Renaults free in Germany – Stripes
- UK economy shrinks 24.5% YoY, on track for deepest recession in more than a century – Independent
- Brexit was meant to make Britain global. It has made us friendless – The Guardian
- U.K. ban on Huawei prompts calls for tougher EU approach – Politico
- Many Germans (42%) say China will overtake US as superpower – DW
- Donald Trump says EU was formed to take advantage of United States – Business Insider
Asia:
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- The untapped economic potential of Vietnam’s ethnic minority groups – South East Asia Globe
- Economic slump: The ‘China Dream’ shattered – The Hill
- China GDP: economy avoids recession with second-quarter growth of 3.2 per cent amid coronavirus recovery – SCMP
- China Set to Fall Short on U.S. Energy Purchases – Oil Price
- China indignant as France imposes tit-for-tat curbs on passenger flights – RFI
- Chinese media calls for ‘pain’ over UK Huawei ban as Trump claims credit – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Build community housing to help beat the COVID-19 recession, Federal Government urged – ABC
- Cocaine use at ’20-year high’ as Australians turn to vaping over cigarettes – ABC
- Rupert Murdoch’s big investment headache: Australia – Reuters
- Almost 1 million Australians unemployed: ABS – The SMH
- More Australians back legalising cannabis and 57% support pill testing, national survey shows – The Conversation
- Coalition to commit $2bn for training if states agree to overhaul of vocational education – The Guardian
- UNSW to cut 493 staff and merge faculties under COVID-19 response plan – The SMH
- Scott Morrison says we can’t shut down Australia to contain second wave of Covid-19 – The Guardian
- Amid the coronavirus economic crisis, cutting taxes for the wealthy is the worst possible response. – ABC
- China’s demand for coal and iron ore surges despite rising animosity with Australia – The SMH
- Property market at a turning point says CoreLogic – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ’s inflation headache – Interest.co.nz
- There’s still more New Zealanders leaving the country than are arriving – Interest.co.nz