Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Goldman Partners’ Haul on Crisis-Era Options: $3 Billion – WSJ
- This ‘prophet of doom’ predicts stock market will plunge more than 50% – MarketWatch
- SEC’s New Crypto Czar Wants Coin Industry to Step Out of Shadows – Bloomberg
- Have a Cryptocurrency Company? Bermuda, Malta or Gibraltar Wants You – NY Times
- Stock Selloff Eases as Bank Gains Blunt Tech Rout: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
- The Trader Who Made a Massive Short Bet Against Nintendo – Bloomberg
- Behind the Spectacular Collapse of a Private Equity Titan – Bloomberg
- Drinking From The Crypto Firehose – AVC
- What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis – Bloomberg
- Correction Worse Than February Is Building, Morgan Stanley Says – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Wealthy – NY Times
- ‘Eye-popping’ payouts for CEOs follow Trump’s tax cuts – Politico
- The Decline and Fall of the American Empire – Bloomberg
- The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size of Japan’s Economy – WSJ
- The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line – NY Times
- 20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big Tech – Axios
- White threat in a browning America – VOX
- Inside the Trump 2020 Campaign’s Wild Attempt to “Keep America Great” – Vanity Fair
- Caterpillar says tariffs will cost company up to $200 million in second half so it’s raising prices – CNBC
- Soda, Motorcycle Prices Rise as Tariffs Hit Home for Consumers – WSJ
- Fed Looks for Goldilocks Path as Jobless Rate Drops – WSJ
Europe:
- An in-depth conversation with Mark Carney on juggling Brexit and shifting the 324-year-old Bank of England – Bloomberg
- Brexit: UK warns EU of tit-for-tat measures over financial services – The Guardian
- The Brexiteers only have themselves to blame for the backlash over no deal planning – New Statesman
- Sky Data poll: 78% think the government is doing a bad job on Brexit – Sky
- Taxi strike targeting Uber brings chaos to Spanish cities – Reuters
- May fears Labour no-deal Brexit ambush – FT
Asia:
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- North Korea is working on new missiles – Washington Post
- Jack Ma’s Giant Financial Startup Is Shaking the Chinese Banking System – WSJ
- China’s Xinjiang Province: A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen – Der Spiegel
- China plans tighter controls on foreign acquisitions – FT
- Was a Chinese graduate student at Duke a scholar or a spy? – NBC
- When the World Opened the Gates of China – WSJ
- China is laying the groundwork for a post-American world order – Washington Post
Trans-Tasman:
- Australians are ‘rightly’ concerned about trusting My Health Record, says Privacy Commissioner – The Age
- Bill Shorten will win on traditional Labor values – The Guardian
- Australian incomes stalled since 2009, latest HILDA data shows – ABC
- Meet the humble Downers, a family of self-proclaimed nation builders – The Guardian
- Australian passport holders wanting to renew caught unawares by need to prove citizenship again – ABC
- Hospitality industry needs to fix problem of wage theft in food business, restaurateurs warn – ABC
- Former border force chief says Australia should investigate all deaths in offshore detention – The Guardian
- The National Energy Guarantee is a flagship policy. So why hasn’t the modelling been made public? – The Guardian
- Rebekha Sharkie unloads on corporate tax cuts plan: ‘no evidence’ of jobs boost – The Guardian
- Single parents, renters at particular risk of financial stress: study – Domain
- Secrecy shrouds cost to Australian taxpayer in controversial trade dispute – The Guardian
- Bankruptcy surge hits young families in WA and Queensland hardest – ABC
- Labor still narrowly ahead of Coalition in Guardian Essential poll – The Guardian
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Plummeting business confidence shows an economy at ‘stall speed’ – Interest.co.nz