Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- July to be hottest month on record as UN warns of ‘global boiling’ – Dawn
- Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says – BNN Bloomberg
- Samsung Profits Plunge 95% As Slump In Chip Demand Continues – Forbes
- India set to be third-largest economy by FY28: SBI Research
Americas:
- Feinstein gets confused in Senate Appropriations hearing and has to be prodded to vote | CNN Politics
- America’s farms are desperate for labor. Foreign workers bring relief and controversy – NPR
- US gas prices climb to an eight-month high – CNN
- US economy blows past expectations: 3 quick takeaways – The Hill
- Yale professor: Biden’s economy most successful since FDR’s New Deal – MSNBC (but, for whom?)
- Trump charged with trying to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage in new indictment – The Hill (losing count on these….more coming though?!)
Europe/Middle East:
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- Sweden approves Torah burning in Stockholm outside Israeli embassy – JPost
- Russia Fears Pro-Ukrainian Drone Attack On Major Navy Parade – Naval News
- U.S. expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September – Politico
- Afghans awaiting US resettlement say they’re being deported from Pakistan back to the Taliban – CNN
- ‘Information War’: Russian Actors Identified In Purported German Video Against Ukraine Aid – RF
Asia:
- Putin thanks North Korea for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – NKNews (birds of a feather…)
- Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song “Glory to Hong Kong”, saying it could have chilling effect -Guardian
- Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin – APNews
- Young Chinese are getting paid to be ‘full-time children’ as jobs become harder to find – CNN
- US intelligence report says China likely supplying tech for Russian military – Reuters
- North Korea Shows off Ballistic Missiles, Drones at Night Parade – VOANews
- China-Taiwan military balance “rapidly tilting” toward Beijing: Japan – KyodoNews
Trans-Tasman:
- Victorian government bans gas in new homes from 2024 – ABC
- Anthony Albanese raising the prospects of a double-dissolution election over housing – ABC
- Revealed: major Australian supermarkets almost never the cheapest place for your fresh produce – Guardian (shocking!)
- Why the media aren’t helping to solve the ‘youth crime crisis’ they’re reporting – The Conversation
- Dudded: Peter Dutton in No-man’s land – The Shot
- From free university to $15,000 a year for an arts degree — tracking the cost of Australia’s higher education over three generations – ABC
Other Stuff:
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- The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high – WaPo
- Tesla was so swamped with complaints about driving ranges that it created a secret team to cancel owners’ service appointments, source says – Business Insider
- High school shop class is back—and it’s showing students alternatives to ‘traditional college’ – CNBC
- The first 4-day workweek study looking at long-term effects shows that we waste a day – Fortune