Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- I Do Not Understand Why the Left Should Want a Sovereign Wealth Fund – Medium
- Global Car Sales Hit Speed Bump as Demand Slows and Trade Tensions Loom – WSJ
- Dark Clouds Gather as Tech Stockpiles Hit Pre-Crisis Levels – Bloomberg
- Venture Capital Needs Some Geographic Diversity – Bloomberg
- In Elon Musk’s World, Brakes Are for Cars, Not C.E.O.s – NY Times
- The Treasury Yield Curve Is Finally Going Mainstream – Bloomberg
- What Wall Street Didn’t Learn From the Recession – Ellevest
- Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost – The Economist
Americas:
- Trump warns Christian leaders of violence if GOP loses – NBC News
- Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated – Washington Post
- Trump Privately Urges Pastors to Help Him From the Pulpit in Midterms – NY Times
- Emails Link Former Homeland Security Official To White Nationalists – The Atlantic
- The School Shootings That Weren’t – NPR
- Why Americans Are Making Less Money – Bloomberg
- Senate Democrats want the government to say if GDP growth is helping the middle class – VOX
- Trump’s Mexico Trade Deal Looks Like a Lemon – Bloomberg
- Trump’s New Nafta May Leave His Job and Deficit Pledges Unfulfilled – Bloomberg
- U.S. energy companies fume over rejected steel tariff exemptions – Reuters
- Trump’s Student Debt Policies Are Mind-bogglingly Corrupt – NY Times
- Half a Nafta – WSJ
- The Trump Tax Cuts Were Supposed to Depress Housing Prices. They Haven’t. – NY Times
- A Rebranded Nafta Is Better Than None – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Nafta Deal Isn’t Worth the Price – Bloomberg
- U.S. to Pay Farmers $4.7 Billion to Offset Trade-Conflict Losses – WSJ
Europe:
- As Turkey Teeters, Germany Considers Offering a Financial Lifeline – WSJ
- Europe’s banking union lacks the key element of deposit insurance – FT
- The Londoner: Bank chief Carney asked to stay a year – Evening Standard
- Theresa May says a no-deal Brexit ’wouldn’t be the end of the world’ – The Guardian
- Europe’s banking union lacks the key element of deposit insurance – FT
- FT reader solutions to Britain’s productivity crisis – FT
Asia:
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- ‘I remember Pearl Harbor’: Inside Trump’s hot and cold relationship with Japan’s prime minister – Washington Post
- What a Chinese Superpower Might Look Like – Bloomberg
- China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server – The Daily Caller
- China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus – NY Times
- Behind The Chaos Of Washington’s Korea Policy – toyokeizai.net
- Corporate Japan despairs at UK’s lack of clarity over Brexit – FT
- Early Indicators Show China’s Economy Weakening Again in August – Bloomberg
- Who Thinks China’s Growth Is Slowing? Part II – PIIE
Trans-Tasman:
- Peter Dutton defends au pair intervention after political donations as Labor calls for inquiry – ABC
- Mortgage refinance rejection spike exposes number of Australians in debt distress – ABC
- Cotton farm execs accused of $20m fraud over Murray-Darling water funding – ABC
- Tony Abbott accepts job as special envoy on Indigenous affairs – The Guardian
- The gigabit fibre NBN is a lost opportunity, when will we build and get it? – IT Wire
- Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity will affect the Wentworth by-election and this graph proves it – ABC
- Queensland corruption watchdog declines to investigate claim of whistleblower reprisal – The Guardian
- The mothballed mine that has poisoned a major Queensland river – ABC
- Unions mount campaign against ‘ruthless’ Scott Morrison and his government – The Age
- A conversation about wind and coal with Australia’s new energy minister – Renew Economy
- New visa could send migrants to regional Australia for five years – SBS
- Ross Gittins: what’s really happening to prices – The SMH
- Holy Dooley, Catholic clubs make a killing from poker machines – Michael West
- Barnaby Joyce’s call to divert environmental water to drought-hit farmers panned by conservationists – ABC
- Long-term unemployment rates show the jobs picture is not so rosy – The Guardian
- The damage is done as the Coalition has lost the trust of jaded voters – The Guardian
- Slow price falls picked for new housing developments – Interest.co.nz