Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs – Evonomics
- Growing tide of protectionism threatens already weak outlook for global trade – Washington Post
- WTO cuts trade forecast by a third – BBC
- Iran rejects Saudi offer to cap oil output ahead of Opec meeting – FT
- OPEC set for no deal as Iran rejects Saudi oil output offer – Reuters
- World Bank reappoints Kim to five-year term as president – Reuters
- The Liquidity Trap and How to Escape It: Time for a New Approach – Roger Farmer’s Economic Window
- Bitcoin-Inspired Technology Starts to Reshape Currency Markets – WSJ
- Technical patterns Akin To Those Before 1987 Market Crash? – Value Walk
- Blackstone’s Top Dealmaker Says Now Is The Most Difficult Period He’s Ever Experienced – Bloomberg
- Osborne: Rich richer because of monetary policy – BBC
Americas:
- Trump Beats Expectations – Weekly Standards
- Giuliani: Clinton ’too stupid to be president’ – Politico
- The Morning After the Debate, Donald Trump Goes on the Attack – NY Times
- 2003 clip backs up Trump on Iraq War opposition – Fox News
- Trump’s Abdication of Personal Responsibility – The Atlantic
- Out of his depth, Donald Trump clings to deception – Washington Post
- Fact-Checking The First Presidential Debate – The Onion
- Frontline soberly profiles Clinton, Trump in ’The Choice’ – CNN
- FBI probes hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party officials: sources – Reuters
Europe:
- Electric car boom raises pollution fears – FT
- Greece approves plan to transfer state utilities to new asset fund – DW.com
- The UK Could Explode Into Riots If Immigration Is Not Curbed By Brexit, Warns Labour’s Rachel Reeves – Huffington Post
- Take more migrants, Hollande tells UK – The Times
- Fox prioritises free trade deal over EU customs – The Times
- London houses are second most over-valued in world – The Guardian
- Russia raises the stakes in the chaos of Aleppo – FT
Asia:
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- Hackers Are Having a Field Day on China’s Wild Web – Bloomberg
- Spillovers from Migration and China’s Transition – IMF
- The SpaceX of China aims to commercialize a mysterious rocket on the world stage – Quartz
- A “granny” versus a “bastard”: How China viewed the US presidential debate – Quartz
- We went to China’s Silicon Valley to see the front lines of the robot wars – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- Voter support for plebiscite on same-sex marriage plummets – 9 News
- Cutting welfare to fund tax cuts for top earners ‘unconscionable’, Coalition told – The Guardian
- The A$1.2 billion saving Australia’s electricity rule-maker just knocked back – The Conversation
- Australian 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics – Science Alert
- NBN write-down needed to avoid internet price surge, telcos ‘going broke’ – ABC
- Telstra to add 1000 technicians to work on NBN and reduce repair times – The SMH
- Gambling Disease Kills One Australian a Day, But It’s Too Lucrative to Cure – Bloomberg
- The ‘Uberisation’ of work is driving people to co-operatives – The Conversation
- Eighty-two per cent of Australians say loneliness is increasing, Lifeline survey finds – The Guardian
- Property developer donated to LNP after controversial Stuart Robert speech – The Age
- The case for a royal commission into the banks – YouTube
- Ludlam demands clarity on GST Internet filter report – Delimeter
- Self-managed super is funding a ‘shadow-banking’ system driving property ownership – Business Insider
- ATO sends bounty-hunters after late payers – Canberra Times
- ‘Don’t treat us as easy target’: private schools’ warn on funding – Canberra Times
- We shouldn’t turn our backs on the world economy – Canberra Times
- Wholesale company tax cuts should be deferred – Grattan Institute
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‘Just rezoning land won’t make Auckland housing more affordable’ – Interest.co.nz
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Half a million to get involved in the housing market – Interest.co.nz
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