(The opinions expressed here are those of the authors.)

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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