Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Goldman’s BRIC Era Ends as Fund Folds After Years of Losses – Bloomberg
- Playing the Investment Probabilities – A Wealth of Common Sense
- The end of the latest deflation scare – FT
- Global GDP Worse Than Official Forecasts Show, Maersk CEO Says – Bloomberg
- Banking Giants Learn Cost of Preventing Another Lehman Moment – Bloomberg
- OECD Trims Global Growth Forecast on Emerging-Market Slowdown – Bloomberg
- G20 finalizes tools for ending ’too big to fail’ banks – Reuters
Americas:
- Budgetary sleight-of-hand – Brookings
- Krugman: Despair, American Style – NY Times
- Colleges Flex Lobbying Muscle – WSJ
- The New Overnight Bank Funding – NY Fed
- Wall Street Bracing for Lower Bonuses for First Time in Years – WSJ
- U.S. Probes Treasuries Niche That Some Investors Claim Is Rigged – Bloomberg
Europe:
- ECB rate setters converge on December deposit rate cut – Reuters
- Russian Athletes Part of State-Sponsored Doping Program – NY Times
- Eurozone crisis: Looking back to the future – VOX
- Europe’s single market is a cosy corporate club – FT
- Germany’s capacity to take in refugees is limited, Schaeuble says – Reuters
- David Cameron is right to make it clear: without a deal, Britain will leave the EU – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- Summers: Grasp the reality of China’s rise – FT
- China’s Trade Drop Means More Stimulus Measures Are Coming – Bloomberg
- Thick Smog in Shenyang, China, Draws Even State Media’s Scorn – NY Times
- Reflections From a Long Trip to China – goinglongblog.com
- Shanghai to curb length of share trading halts – FT
Local:
- Labor to use tobacco taxes to pay for Gonski – Canberra Times
- Smokers should be charged more for insurance – Canberra Times
- PM takes out insurance in GST debate – Canberra Times
- Harming the poor through higher GST ‘inconceivable’ – Canberra Times
- Get into China fast, diplomat says ahead of FTA deal – Canberra Times
- 1475 jobs go as big banks cut costs – Canberra Times
- Time to ditch the tax dogma – Canberra Times
- PM targets super for ‘fair’ reform – The Australian
- China free trade deal passes parliament – The Australian
- Tax progressives in the wrong – The Australian
- Foreign buyers ‘circle herd’ – The Australian
- Sugar levy would do fat lot of good – The Australian
- ‘Too big to fail’ bank plan revealed – The AFR
- GST talk spooks Turnbull’s backbench – The AFR
- It’s midnight for Sydney and Melbourne on the property clock – The AFR
- Victorian taxi industry abandons campaign against Uber in favour of reform – The Guardian
- No change to GST without compensation: the tax reform debate continues – ABC 7.30 Report