‘Open Cut, Muswellbrook’ Weaver Hawkins, 1955 National Gallery of Victoria
China
- Beijing seen lending Chinese yuan a huge helping hand – Nikkei Asian Review
- China widens investor access as bond trading link with Hong Kong launches – Guardian
- China is focusing on the wrong things to fix its economy, says economist – CNBC
- China’s cooling property market could weigh on the economy – SCMP
- China’s uneasy relationship with foreign credit ratings firms – SCMP
- Momentum for growth ‘may not last’ in China – SCMP
- China’s economy stable amid complex conditions, central bank says – SCMP
- The challenge of China’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse – Bruegel
- China Rewrites Rulebook on Capital Flows After Crisis Lessons – Bloomberg
- ‘Everyone in China has the American Dream’ – and a popular path to it may disappear – Washington Post
Asia
- Malaysia exports surge 32.5% in May – Nikkei Asian Review
- Red Flags Emerge for India’s Bond Market as Farmer Bailouts Rise – Bloomberg
- Will Japan ever exorcise its deflation demons? – Nikkei Asian Review
- Bank of China sets up Singapore bond hub – Nikkei Asia Review
- Japan seen left out of global exit from easy money – Nikkei Asian Review
Europe
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- European Union Recovery – Surprise Economic Story of 2017 – Economonitor
- Russia’s cyber-challenge cuts both ways – BNE Intellinews
- Getting rid of non-performing loans in Europe – Voxeu
- Italy’s Bank Bailout Serves German Interests Too – Bloomberg
- Europe Is Now Re-Leveraging – ValueWalk
- Scandinavia Is No Socialist Valhalla – ValueWalk
- Why Germany’s current-account surplus is bad for the world economy – Economist
- France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040 – NY Times
United Kingdom
- UK economy suffers triple blow as trade deficit widens, industrial output falls and construction slows – Telegraph
- Fears for UK economy after trio of weaker-than-expected growth reports – Guardian
- UK faces tightest squeeze on household incomes for five years – Guardian
- City of London calls for ‘digital skills visa’ – FT.com
United States
- U.S. job growth seen accelerating; unemployment rate steady – Reuters
- The Fed’s US$4.5-trillion question: How to handle the Great Unwind? – Financial Post
- Mortgage rates surge higher as markets fret over Federal Reserve’s monetary strategy – Washington Post
- The dark side of Trump’s much-hyped China trade deal: It could literally make you sick – Washington Post
- Why is US Economic Growth Slowing? – Pragmatic Capitalism
- The Federal Reserve is divided over its longer-term path – Washington Post
- U.S. Labor Market Roars Back, Adding 222,000 Jobs in June – NY Times
- Will Trump Invoke National Security to Start a Trade War? – Peterson Institute
- The Job Market May Have Some Room to Run After All – NY Times
- U.S. Trade Partners Watch Warily as Trump Considers Steel Tariffs – NY Times
- America Is Struggling With Economic Rot – Bloomberg
- A horror story: What would you do if the U.S. economy collapsed? – Washington Post
- Here’s How Trump Transferred Wealth to His Son While Avoiding the Usual Taxes – ProPublica
Americas
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- How Canada’s weak-dollar strategy flopped—and then backfired – Financial Post
- Brazil asks for meeting with USDA chief to discuss ban on Brazilian beef – SCMP
- `Last Domino’ Just Fell for Canada Rate Hike – Bloomberg
Terra Ponzinomicus
- Tesla to build world’s biggest lithium ion battery in South Australia – Guardian
- Power prices are ‘off the chart’ and there’s no relief in sight – ABC
- Baby boomer musicians are ripping us off to boost their retirement savings – ABC
- Tesla wins giant battery contract in Australia, has 100-day deadline – Reuters
- Andrews government calls for new brown coal projects, including in the Latrobe Valley – Domainfax
- Three charts on: the changing face of Australian union members – The Conversation
- Canada offers Australia a blueprint for protecting and motivating corporate whistleblowers – The Conversation
- Australia cuts resources export revenue forecast on iron ore outlook – Reuters
- What’s wrong with giving the workers a fair go? – NZ Herald
- Political fallout as property market hits the canvas – NZ Herald
- Explainer: is a High Court challenge about to bring down the Turnbull government? – The Conversation
Commodities
- Chinese clampdown on shoddy steel buoys rebar prices – Nikkei Asian Review
- Australian spot coal prices hit highest since April amid mine outages, strong demand – Nikkei Asian Review
- Global food prices around two-year high in June as meat, dairy and wheat climb – CNBC
- Ethnic unrest leaves world’s tea drinkers thirsty for $1,800 Darjeeling brew – Reuters…would want to be a bloody good cuppa…
- Malaysia’s bauxite exports rise despite mining ban – Reuters
- Qatar signals LNG price war for market share in Asia – Reuters
- Soybean cargoes piling up at China’s ports as imports surge – Reuters
- Getting scrappy: China iron ore demand may falter as steel recycling grows – Reuters
- The Lithium Bull Market Is Going Into Overdrive – ValueWalk
- China Tightens Its Commitment to Use of Natural Gas – Caixin
- Drought stokes fears of smallest Australian wheat crop in a decade – Agrimoney
- Cotton prices to fall next season to nine-year low, says ICAC – Agrimoney
Capital Markets
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- World’s central banks still cool on yuan – Nikkei Asian Review
- The Inflation Target Trap – Project-Syndicate
- One Hundred Years of Indebtedness – Project-Syndicate
- The IMF’s Flexible Credit Line– Economonitor
- The spanning hypothesis and risk premia in long-term bonds – Voxeu
- Assessing the riskiness of capital inflows based on lender and currency – Voxeu
- Private Equity and Passive Investors Are on a Collision Course – Bloomberg
- The Fed Is Losing Focus of Its Primary Mandates – Bloomberg, Duy
- A Supercomputer Is Betting on a Market Crash – ValueWalk
- Euro’s Short Squeeze May Just Be Getting Started – Bloomberg
Global Macro
- Trump Raises Election Meddling in First Meeting With Putin – Bloomberg
- Japan and Europe counter Trump with colossal trade deal – Washington Post
- The E.U.-Japan Trade Deal: What’s in It and Why It Matters – NY Times
- The G20’s Misguided Globalism – Project-Syndicate
- Saving Emerging Markets From Trump – Project-Syndicate
- Why Build Financially Inclusive Economies? – Project-Syndicate
- Are Advanced Economies Ready for Recovery, Really? Or Global Reflation As China Begins Tightening – Economonitor
- Obsolete G-20 summit still has some value as absurd political theater – Market Watch
- How a road on China and India’s border led to the two powers’ worst stand-off in decades – CNBC
- China’s Xi calls for strengthened macroeconomic coordination – Reuters
- Inflation elusive, but central bankers getting twitchy – Reuters
…and furthermore…
- CEO-Worker Pay Ratio Generates Outrage—And Some Insight – WSJ
- Risk, return, and skill in the portfolios of the wealthy – Voxeu
- The existential threat facing the honey bee, and what it means for us – SCMP
- Untreatable gonorrhoea ‘superbug’ spreading around world, WHO warns – Guardian
- The smart money: are we on the cusp of a cashless society? – FT.com
- Wage Growth Is Flat. What If Workers Expected More? – Bloomberg
- Scariest Thing About Cyberwarfare: No Rules of Engagement – Bloomberg
- The U.S. Media’s Murky Coverage of Putin and Trump – New Yorker