Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The World Trade Historical Database – VOX
- The $5 Trillion Question: How Did the Firm That Pioneered ETFs Lose Its Lead? – WSJ
- The Train Robbery Capital of the World – Bloomberg
- Financial world doomed to repeat bad behaviour – FT
- The death of Don Draper – New Statesman
- Which College Degrees Get the Highest Salaries? – Visual Capitalist
- The visionary economist who invented effective altruism decades ago – 80,000 Hours
- Big Short’s Eisman Is Shorting Tesla for ‘Execution Problems’ – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Is the US Leaning Red or Blue? It All Depends on Your Map – Wired
- U.S. GDP Growth Hits 4.1%, Fastest Since 2014, in Win for Trump – Bloomberg
- U.S. GDP Report Clears Path for Two More Fed Rate Hikes – Bloomberg
- Precinct Data Shows Rich, White Neighborhoods Flipping Democratic in 2016. Will It Last? – NY Times
- Capitalist Elizabeth Warren has the right antidote to socialism and Trumpism – Business Insider
- Elizabeth Warren Is Waging a Full-Body Fight to Defeat Trump – NY Mag
- Billionaires gone wild – CJR
- The mysterious slump in how much Americans save is a mystery no longer – MarketWatch
- Americans have been saving more than was thought – FT
- Americans Have Been Saving Much More Than Thought, New Data Show – Bloomberg
- How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies – Politico
- Should Democrats play it safe with a job guarantee? – The Week
- How Trump Won Re-election in 2020 – NY Times
- Trump gets the economy Jeb Bush dreamed of: 4 percent growth – Politico
Europe:
- New Zealand opposes UK’s WTO quota plan – Global Meat Rules
- On Brexit, What the EU Tells You 10 Times Is True – Bloomberg
- This is what no-deal Brexit actually looks like – Politics UK
- Ex-Trump strategist Bannon targets Britain in anti-EU campaign – Reuters
- Boris Johnson may have saved the EU – FT
- British food stores ridicule Brexit stockpiling plans – FT
- ECB Keeps to Policy Path to End Bond Purchases – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- How Chinese students who return home after studying abroad succeed – SCMP
- China’s debt threat: time to rein in the spending boom – FT
- China’s policy easing signals change in stance amid slowing growth – Moodys
- Why Is China’s Currency Falling? – Bloomberg
- Chinese Purchases of U.S. Property Dry Up Over Trade War – Bloomberg
- Chinese internet users employ the blockchain to share a censored news article – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- He may not be as vulgar as Trump but Turnbull uses the same playbook – The Guardian
- Compared with the rest of us, African kids are assimilating just fine – The Age
- Super Saturday: Labor’s by-election wins leave Turnbull Government with questions to answer – ABC
- Skimpies make way for ‘himpies’ in famous WA mining town tradition – ABC
- Victoria’s 100 MW solar farm receives financial green light – PV Magazine
- Australian Scientists Are Leading The Way In Quantum Chemistry – Gizmodo
- Downer slams ‘abuse and hatred’ aimed at aspiring politician daughter – The Age
- PM plays down Super Saturday losses amid fresh scrutiny on high-end tax cuts – ABC
- NT property sale prices slide $1.2b after LNG boom ends – ABC
- The election is the real test: Turnbull – SBS
- NZ acting PM suggests kangaroo flag – SBS
- Number of properties being auctioned down – Interest.co.nz
- Aspiring KiwiBuild homeowners – time to get a mortgage pre-approval – Interest.co.nz
- Overseas buyer activity increasing in central Auckland, mostly down elsewhere – Interest.co.nz