Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Taking Tesla Private – Tesla
- Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund builds $2bn Tesla stake – FT
- Elon Musk Just Showed Exactly Why Tesla Should Be Private – Bloomberg
- Inside the bitter divorce war between Sue and Bill Gross – NY Post
- The devastating cost of central banks’ caution – FT
- Move Over Millennials, It’s Gen Z’s Turn to Kill Industries – Bloomberg
- Google consumes one-third of our digital minds – Axios
- Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state – The Guardian
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change – NY Times
- Bitcoin Speculators, Not Drug Dealers, Dominate Crypto Use Now – Bloomberg
- Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid – Bloomberg
- The Stock Market’s Next $1 Trillion Milestone: Buybacks – NY Times
- Don’t Worry About the End of QE, Worry About Rates – WSJ
Americas:
- Stephen Miller’s next target: Legal immigrants – NBC News
- South Carolina manufacturer says it’s closing plant over Trump tariffs – The Hill
- America might be ready for democratic socialism. It’s not ready for the bill. – VOX
- Why Trump Gets More Credit Than Obama for the Same Economy – NY Mag
- No, Tariffs Aren’t Going to Pay Down the National Debt – NY Times
- No to Academic Normalization of Trump – Project Syndicate
- ‘We Are at the Limit’: Trump’s Tariffs Turn Small Businesses Upside Down – WSJ
- Alcoa Requests Reprieve From Trump’s Aluminum Tariffs – NY Times
- Mike Pence’s moral case for removing a president from office – CNN
- The Stealth Pension Mortgage on Your House – WSJ
- Bankruptcy Filings Surge Among Older Americans – WSJ
- Both renters and homeowners could benefit from better housing policy – Brookings
- Canada to ask allies to help cool Saudi dispute; U.S. offers no aid – Reuters
Europe:
- A German Publisher Is Winning the Internet – Bloomberg
- Italy Senate overturns mandatory vaccination law – FT
- IMF 2018 Article IV Consultation for Greece – kkalev4economy.wordpress.com
- Labour’s economic policy is not neoliberal – Critical Finance
- U.K. Sees Brexit Deal Deadline Slipping to End-November – Bloomberg
- The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology – New Yorker
- Brussels looks at softening Irish backstop powers to avoid no deal – FT
Asia:
Advertisement
- Trump’s ‘Great Deal’ With South Korea Jeopardized by Car Tariff Dispute – WSJ
- A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter – NY Times
- China Uses Lower-Profile Swaps Market to Bolster Yuan – WSJ
- Alibaba and Tencent have become China’s most formidable investors – The Economist
- Inside Russia’s invasion of the U.S. electric grid – Axios
- Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone? – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian regulator to embed supervisors in banks – FT
- ‘It stinks’: $444m grant to reef foundation is a scandal, Greens say – The Guardian
- Head of reef foundation says $444m grant was ‘complete surprise’ – The Guardian
- Auditor eyes $444 million Barrier Reef foundation money – SBS
- Great Barrier Reef grant decision broke Government’s own rules, environmental lawyers say – ABC
- Greens want Australia’s banks broken up over ‘shocking degree of rot’ – The Guardian
- Travelling clinician fined $100 for sleeping in his van overnight raises questions over resting, driver fatigue – ABC
- Censored? ASIC leak vanishes from ABC website quicker than a Snickers – Michael West
- Australian cyclist deaths surge and road safety strategy ‘failing’ – The Guardian
- Hydrogen fuel breakthrough in Queensland could fire up massive new export market – ABC
- The federal government will announce an extra 1500 staff to help Centrelink deal with the one million calls it receives a day – SBS
- Analysis Reveals That World’s Largest Battery Saved South Australia $8.9 Million In 6 Months – Clean Technica
- NAPLAN results delayed over concerns national data could be invalid – ABC
- Perth’s two-speed housing market revealed as top end shows turnaround – ABC
- This country is run for home owners, by home owners – The Age
- Acting AMP chief paid $1.46m for eight months’ work – SBS
- Businesses see sharp slide in economic growth – Interest.co.nz
-
Auckland’s Unitary Plan ‘a success’ – Interest.co.nz