Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users – WSJ
- Apple’s Stock Market Scam – New Republic
- How Econ Numbers Can Lead You (and Me) Astray – Bloomberg
- Goldman Banker Takes on World’s Largest Gold Miner—and Gets Pushback – WSJ
- Jamie Dimon Warns of 5% Treasury Yields – Bloomberg
- Buffett’s $111 Billion Cash Pile Intensifies Buyback Debate – Bloomberg
- We Are Still Living in the Ruins of the 2008 Crash – NY Mag
- The world is losing the war against climate change – The Economist
- Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid – Bloomberg
- Some Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Other Millions – WSJ
- Goldman Sachs Is Considering a Custody Offering for Crypto Funds – Bloomberg
- The Eight Best Predictors of the Long-Term Market – WSJ
- Global stocks lift on strong earnings as trade fight caps gains;… – Reuters
- The Unseen Risk in the Booming Loan Market – WSJ
- What Are Capitalists Thinking? – NY Times
- U.S. bond market takes looming Treasuries deluge in stride – Reuters
Americas:
- Steel Giants With Ties to Trump Officials Block Tariff Relief for Hundreds of Firms – NY Times
- Mike Pence’s moral case for removing a president from office – CNN
- ‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans – NY Times
- The Utility of White-Bashing – The Atlantic
- Trump Says California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn. California Disagrees. – NY Times
- Trump claims credit he is not due on the economy – FT
- How Trump Radicalized ICE – The Atlantic
- For Wages, a Trump Slump – NY Times
- Profits Surge at Big U.S. Firms – WSJ
- The rise of downward mobility – Washington Post
Europe:
- UK poised to ask Russia to extradite Salisbury attack suspects – The Guardian
- The robot paradox – Stumbling & Mumbling
- Europe really doesn’t need us as much as we need them – Sky
- Why a no-deal Brexit is nothing to fear – The Spectator
- IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece – The Telegraph
- Londoners With Jobs Are Lining Up for Food Handouts Because They Can’t Afford to Eat – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter – NY Times
- Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone? – FT
- China won’t shoot itself in the foot by weaponising the yuan – SCMP
- Alibaba and Tencent have become China’s most formidable investors – The Economist
- China Meets Trump’s Tariff Hardball With Pledge to Endure – Bloomberg
- China millennials’ love of credit cards raise debt fears – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s China reset – The Monthly
- Millennials face poverty in retirement without super overhaul, think tank warns – ABC
- Labor calls for reef foundation to return $444m grant – The Guardian
- ‘Big call’: minister refuses to link drought to climate change on Q&A – The Guardian
- Greens target minister Dutton’s seat – SBS
- Banking royal commission: ASIC will be given power to embed staff in big four banks, AMP – ABC
- Toll road giant Transurban doubles profit as toll revenue soars to $2.34b – The SMH
- Australia’s computing history is about to be bulldozed, but you can help save it – ABC
- ‘Out of touch’: Telstra workers urged to reject ‘insulting’ wage deal – The SMH
- Craig Kelly says backbenchers have not agreed to Neg, contradicting Turnbull – The Guardian
- Why did South Australia council reject solar, wind hydrogen hub? – Renew Economy
- Frydenberg threatens states as NEG “sign on” date closes in – Renew Economy
- Australia’s population hits 25 million today. Who will the newest resident be? – ABC
- Households at ‘tipping point’, with more Australians struggling to pay living costs – ABC
- #ReefGate: extinct disclosures and the Karl Metric – Michael West
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Building consents a good indicator of future housing supply – Interest.co.nz
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Robertson admits Treasury may have to trim its growth expectations – Interest.co.nz
