International Reading:
- Mark Cuban says companies should be taxed more for buying back their own shares – Business Insider
- The Trump family has raked in $3.4 billion over his two presidencies, new report says – The Independent
- Goldman stands by call that consumers will bear the brunt of tariffs after Trump blasts bank’s economist – CNBC
- Will the tourism economy ever recover? – The Guardian
- Trump delivers Democrats’ dream corporate tax – News Week
- US debt reaches $37 trillion years before expected – News Week
- As Trump berates Goldman, other economists agree that higher tariff inflation is coming – CNBC
- Why the Trump Tariff Merry-Go-Round Won’t Stop – WSJ
- Americans Are Getting Priced Out of Homeownership at Record Rates – Bloomberg
- U.S. Drinking Rate at New Low as Alcohol Concerns Surge – Gallup
- Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto – NY Times
- New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year – NY Times
- U.S. Banks Slash Fossil Fuel Financing As Market Forces Outweigh Politics – Clean Technica
- Trump Warns of Economic Disaster if Court Strikes Down Tariffs – NY Times
- China’s youth unemployment is so bad that Gen Z job-seekers are paying $7 a day to pretend to work in an office – Fortune
Local Reading:
- AMA backs landmark call to end unnecessary intersex surgeries – Medical Republic
- If recreational vapes are banned, why are there still vape shops everywhere? – The Conversation
- Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point – The Guardian
- University of Technology Sydney tells staff facing axe to ‘wash delicates’ to help manage stress as it suspends 146 courses – ABC
- How the Australian National University fell — and continues to fall —from grace – ABC
- Qantas cancels flights at double the rate of Virgin, competition watchdog finds – The Guardian
- Australia in grip of quiet, escalating crisis in education system – News.com.au
- Leaked Treasury advice lists possible outcomes of Labor’s yet to be held round table – ABC
- Home affairs wrongfully detained Australian citizen for four days because of paperwork bungle, ombudsman reveals – The Guardian
- Delay in choosing COP31 host city poses challenge to Adelaide’s preparations – ABC
- Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct – ABC
- Australia’s time has come to be a green energy-intensive export superpower – The Guardian
- Households still think inflation’s higher than it is – but future expectations have settled – Interest.co.nz
- House prices continued to cool in July – particularly in Auckland – Interest.co.nz
- More than one-in-10 residential properties sold in Q2 sold for less than their purchase price – Interest.co.nz
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MB Media Appearances:
LVO interviewed on housing affordability by the Daily Mail.
DLS interviewed on the immigration rebound in the Daily Mail.
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