Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- What else can central banks do? – VOX
- A one-time high flying hedge fund is shutting its Hong Kong office – Business Insider
- Vanguard attracts nearly $200bn this year – FT
- The stock market is vanishing – Business Insider
- Looking beyond GDP when measuring welfare – Washington Centre for Equitable Growth
- Bill Gross says negative interest rates are nothing but liabilities – MarketWatch
- We Need Forceful Policies to Avoid the Low-Growth Trap – IMF
- Robots, Growth, and Inequality – IMF
- Demand for bonds is so strong, there’s not enough to trade – Reuters
- IMF urges ‘forceful action’ from G20 to escape low-growth rut – FT
- Cash Keeps Pouring Out of European Stocks – WSJ
Americas:
- The News From Trump Changed. The Main Story Was Slow to Catch Up. – NY Times
- Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump – NY Times
- Donald Trump Revised Immigration Speech After Mexican Leader’s Tweet – WSJ
- How Trump got from Point A to Point A on immigration – Washington Post
- Donald Trump finally explained his immigration plan, and it’s all about protecting white power – Quartz
- What Trump Gets Right About Illegal Immigration – The Atlantic
- More than 6 million immigrants could be deported under latest Trump plan – Washington Post
- Melania Trump sues Daily Mail for libel – CNN Money
- Here’s why Trump’s immigration speech was so shocking – Business Insider
- Escaping the National Middle-Income Trap – Bloomberg
- The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment – Gallup
- In Pennsylvania, baby boomers see the American Dream slipping away – Boston Globe
- As Skill Requirements Increase, More Manufacturing Jobs Go Unfilled – WSJ
- Goldman: The Fed Might Have a New, Big Idea – Bloomberg
Europe:
- London’s grip on global FX trading hit by Asia – FT
- Russians purchased 500,000 baseball bats in one year – MarketWatch
- US expands Russia sanctions over Ukraine conflict – France24
- Why Brown Shoes Can Ruin Your Career in London Banking – Bloomberg
- French city Nice suspends burkini ban after defiance – France24
- EU ruling on Apple’s Irish tax is ’total political crap’ – CEO – Reuters
- Pound jumps as UK manufacturing activity rebounds – BBC
- German leaders told to put brakes on CETA as well – euractive
- Merkel Faces Home-State Defeat Over Immigration – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Did China just suffer the first space launch failure of 2016? – gbtimes
- Macau Gaming Snaps Two-Year Drop to Rise 1.1% on New Resorts – Bloomberg
- Chip-Maker Nvidia Teams Up With Baidu to Develop an Artificially Intelligent, Self-Driving Car – WSJ
- Behind China’s Anbang: Empty Offices and Obscure Names – NY Times
- China’s Growth Playbook on Display to G-20 in City Transformed – Bloomberg
- The world’s biggest hedge fund expects a bust in China – Business Insider
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia must choose between United States and China: U.S. Army official – Reuters
- Australia’s two biggest cities cancel Mao Zedong concerts, citing safety concerns – Reuters
- Malcolm Turnbull admits missing Government MPs ‘did the wrong thing’ after Labor’s vote ambush – ABC
- Cannabis, the final TGA decision is in. Prescriptions available from 1st November. Next step recreational use 🙂 – TGA
- Medicinal cannabis to be legalised in Australia from November – Canberra Times
- Federal politicians claimed $55m in expenses in six months, documents reveal – ABC
- Insane house prices is the “New Normal” they will not crash because millennials have made the sacrifices necessary to “afford” them. – Reddit (very interesting debate. First comment is a gem).
- “I Am In No Way Influenced By Foreign Funding,” Chinese Government Tells Sam Dastyari To Say – The Shovel
- Sinodinos accused of possibly misleading Parliament over donations scam – The SMH
- Jacqui Lambie likens Cory Bernardi to an ‘angry prostitute’, then apologises to sex workers – 9News
- ‘Australia has lost its way’: author Richard Flanagan’s lecture at Melbourne Writers Festival 2016 – The Monthly
- MPs urge govt to dump Census non-completion fines – IT News
- Apartment correction to cause Australia-wide recession: report warns – Brisbane Times
- What is Section 18C and why do some politicians want it changed? – ABC
- Adani should bow out gracefully from its Carmichael coal mine – The Conversation
- Australia’s Challenges In The Asia Pacific – The Economist
- Scandal-ridden Careers Australia, a Liberal major donor, back in spotlight – Independent Australia
- Steve Irwin’s heartbreaking letter to parents uncovered 10 years after his death – Yahoo
- NZ$ drops one place to be world’s 11th most traded currency – Interest.co.nz
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