Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? – New Yorker
- Big Debt Crises – Ray Dalio
- IPhone prices would rise up to 20% if Apple assembles in the US like Trump wants – CNBC
- Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century – NBER
- The dangerous myth we still believe about the Lehman Brothers bust – Washington Post
- What We Need to Fight the Next Financial Crisis – NY Times
- Economic Confidence Is Really High. Perhaps It’s Time to Sell. – WSJ
- Borrowers Struggle to Raise Funds as Emerging Markets Tumble – WSJ
- Weakness Against Major Rivals Dims Dollar’s Shine – WSJ
- It was a gut-wrenching trade, but investors who bought the day before Lehman failed are up 130% – CNBC
Americas:
- Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air – NY Times
- The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering – NY Times
- Trump approval dips, hits low among independents – CNN
- Monthly Budget Review for August 2018 – CBO
- Scientists say ‘neuroweapons’ were behind Cuba attacks – Yahoo
- Trump touts an economic metric not seen in the U.S. since … Bush – Washington Post
- Widening deficit puts Trump’s trade fallacies on full display – The Hill
- White House Corrects Trump’s Tweet on GDP, Unemployment – WSJ
- As midterm elections near, smaller, redder places show more economic growth – Brookings
- Federal Reserve Considers a New Tool to Avert Crises – WSJ
- Can Bitcoin Save Argentina? – Coin Desk
Europe:
- Tories enter into alliance with Swedish far-right in European Parliament – The Independent
- Why European creators must oppose the EU’s proposal to limit linking and censor the internet – Boing Boing
- Paris knife attack leaves 7 injured, French police arrest suspect – Global Press
- UK Enjoys Fastest Growth in Almost a Year – 0.6% – Reuters
- UK government refuses to say if it has taken legal advice on second Brexit referendum – Reuters
- Intense lobbying continues ahead of EU copyright vote – The Parliament Magazine
Asia:
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- U.S. Weighs Sanctions Against Chinese Officials Over Muslim Detention Camps – NY Times
- China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims – Human Rights Watch
- China: Massive Crackdown in Muslim Region – Human Rights Watch
- In Depth: Is China on Verge of Private Equity Implosion? – Caixin
- Alibaba appoints Daniel Zhang to succeed Jack Ma as chairman in 12-month succession plan – SCMP
- America, China and the route to all-out trade war – FT
- Nobody Knows Anything About China – Foreign Policy
- Profits Jump at Japanese Companies, but Foreign Investors Don’t Bite – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- PM Morrison is counting on voter amnesia – New Daily
- Energy prices jump since Morrison coup, as “fair dinkum” coal trips again, and again – Renew Economy
- ‘Affront to human rights’: top UN official slams Australia’s offshore detention – The Guardian
- Don’t believe the marketing – the biggest tax cut are not for ‘middle Australia’ – The Guardian
- Prime Minister Morrison and the Pentecostal agenda – Independent Australia
- Six new solar, wind farms to be built in Victoria to help meet renewable energy target – ABC
- Wentworth looks scary for Liberals having trouble explaining why they sacked a PM – ABC
- UNSW researchers find FTTP NBN worth the extra billions – IT News
- Consultants must not take place of government – The SMH
- Banks set to face massive class action over rip-offs – The Age
- Australia could be 100% renewable by 2030s, meet Paris targets by 2025 – Renew Economy
- ‘Let me buy Rio Tinto’: China’s brazen bid to buy our companies – The SMH
- South Australia offers up to $6,000 grants for home battery installations – Renew Economy
- Reforming our political system is not a quick fix. Here’s a step-by-step guide to how to do it – The Conversation
- Going all-in on KiwiBuild – Interest.co.nz