International reads:
- The U.S. government wants to crack down on apps that let people get their paychecks before payday – Fortune
- Average Chinese national now eats more protein than an American: United Nations – SCMP
- Jamie Dimon says whoever is elected president can’t sit in denial and must realize ’we have a problem’ with national debt – Fortune
- Trump turns up heat on Fed ahead of expected rate cuts: ‘It’s something that they know they shouldn’t be doing.’ – Yahoo
- US appeals court blocks all of Biden student debt relief plan – Reuters
- Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensive – Yahoo
- Trump Warned Powell Not to Cut Rates Before the Election. Markets Are Still Expecting Them. – Barrons
- Initial applications for US unemployment benefits rose last week by the most since early May and continuing claims jumped, adding to evidence of a softening labor market – Bloomberg
- Chaos At Mumbai Job Interview As Over Reportedly 15,000 Applicants Show Up For 1,800 Roles – IB Times
- 27% of 🇺🇸 Americans are skipping meals due to skyrocketing costs of grocery – Fox Business
Local reads:
- Bus Queensland refuses government subsidised pay increases for its own drivers, leaked document shows – ABC
- Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds – The Guardian
- Bots are super-charging ticket scams, buying up huge numbers to sell at a mark-up, according to consumer advocacy groups. – ABC
- Yes, we are a more equal society than most, but not quite as mobile as the Productivity Commission suggests. Here’s why – The Conversation
- MediSecure reveals 12.9 million Australians had personal data stolen in cyber attack earlier this year – ABC
- Boomers, Millennials break taboo to candidly share savings balances: ‘Scared’ – Yahoo
- Supermarket giant Woolworths has begun requiring some staff to clock out and in around break times, angering some workers on social media who called the practice “micromanaging”. – New Daily
- We have too few aged care workers to care for older Australians. Why? And what can we do about it? – The Conversation
- The home loan rate cuts keep coming. Now Kiwibank too – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ & BNZ follow Westpac with term deposit rate cuts – Interest.co.nz
- Housing sales crashed to GFC levels in June – REINZ describes the market as ‘a little chilly’ – Interest.co.nz
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