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By Anna Szymanski

June 12 (Reuters) - Looking for inspiration? Every Friday, Weekend Reads will provide a digest of what the Reuters Open Interest team has been reading, watching and listening to.

This week, the team is recommending everything from breakdowns of the energy shock to analyses of the World Cup and a Reuters investigation of the Trump family's crypto ventures.

We're reading...

MIKE DOLAN, ROI Finance & Markets Columnist: This working paper by Gene Frieda at think tank Bruegel considers whether the latest energy shock may again require temporary fiscal-monetary coordination in the U.S., Europe and Japan – one that may involve central banks buying debt or anchoring borrowing costs.

RON BOUSSO, ROI Energy Columnist: This Reuters deep dive explores how China has adapted to the loss of oil supplies during the Iran war. It turns out the world's largest oil importer can get by with much less fuel than expected.

JAMIE MCGEEVER, ROI Markets Columnist: Some say politics and sport shouldn't mix, but that's not how the real world works. In "Everything wrong with the 2026 World Cup," Miguel Delaney at The Independent catalogues a series of controversies, arguing that they have made the tournament now underway one of the most politicized in history – and that's a high bar.

CLYDE RUSSELL, ROI Asia Commodities and Energy Columnist: This piece by analysts at Commodity Insights explains how an accident at a coking coal mine in China wound its way through to the seaborne market.

ANNA SZYMANSKI, ROI Editor-in-Charge: This Reuters special report reveals how the Trump family’s crypto playbook generated big gains for the president and his sons – and steep losses for investors.

We're listening to...

JAMIE MCGEEVER, ROI Markets Columnist: With markets in flux amid the AI IPO frenzy and fears of over-exuberance, Oaktree Capital co-founder Howard Marks joins the TBPN podcast to put today's AI boom into historical perspective.

And we're watching...

ANNA SZYMANSKI, ROI Editor-in-Charge: On this episode of Reuters Econ World, sports economist and author Stefan Szymanski joins host Carmel Crimmins to explore how the World Cup became a multi-billion-dollar spectacle. They also discuss why the 2026 event is shaping up to be the biggest yet – and how economists predict the winner. (In case you’re wondering, Stefan and I are not related, though we have both lived in Ann Arbor, MI.)

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