International Reads:
- Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children? – NY Times
- That $5 McDonald’s value deal might not be cheap enough – Business Insider
- Gen Z and millennial homeownership rate plummets to 4-year low – Fortune
- Why China Would Struggle to Invade Taiwan – CFR
- Mass Layoffs Follow $10 Billion in Profits at John Deere – Truth Out
- The Housing Market Isn’t Making Sense. What’s Going On. – Barrons
- The Supreme Court Just Sabotaged the US Economy – Kenneth Jacobs – Project Syndicate
- Why orange juice is so expensive – CNBC
- Starbucks sales tumble as customers reject high-priced coffee – CNN
- The majority of consumers who’ve admitted to recently stealing from retailers cited inflation and the state of the economy as driving factors – CBS News
- Income gap between white and Black Americans narrower for millennials than Gen X, study finds – PBS
- Electricity bills could rise for 65 million Americans – News Week
- Small cars are back because that’s all Americans can afford – Fortune
Local Reads:
- McDonald’s sales fall as inflation-weary customers turn away from fast food – ABC
- Australians are struggling to make ends meet. This is not an economy in need of more rate rises – The Guardian
- Decriminalising personal use of cannabis would benefit NSW health and legal system, parliamentary inquiry told – ABC
- Adelaide home prices could soon surpass Melbourne as Victorian capital slumps – The Guardian
- One in five Australians improvised period products due to cost barriers, survey finds – The Guardian
- Australia in biggest ‘baby recession’ since 1970s as pandemic birth boom fades – The Guardian
- Rex Airlines staff told company unable to pay wages or redundancy packages as 350 workers immediately stood down – ABC
- ‘Nobody is blind to it’: mass cheating through AI puts integrity of Australian universities at risk, academics claim – The Guardian
- Regional infrastructure grants scheme delay causes havoc, cost fears for East Kimberley airport upgrade – ABC
- Labor vows to force banks to compensate Australians tricked out of money by scammers – The Guardian
- Federal government responds to disability royal commission, fully accepting 13 recommendations – ABC
- Kiwi borrowers locked, loaded, and ready for mortgage rate falls – Interest.co.nz
- Median housing values slip, sliding away – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ cuts rates too, including its floating rate – Interest.co.nz
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